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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2421yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • An Introduction to the Course
  • "The American Dream"
  • A Culture of Racism?
  • Acts and Riots in the 1960s
  • The Conservative Turn
  • A Divided Community
Readings
  • "To Fulfill These Rights..."
  • About The Moynihan Report
  • Remarks by President Obama on "My Brother's Keeper" Initiative
  • The Kerner Commission
  • The Welfare Queen
  • The Southern Strategy
  • Remarks by President Obama on Economic Mobility
  • The National Black Political Convention
  • The Dilemma of the New Black Politician
Practice Exercise
  • A Culture of Racism
  • The Conservative Movement
  • Divided Communities

Videos
  • Race and Policing
  • The Obama Presidency
  • The Troy Davis Moment
  • The Trayvon Martin Moment
Readings
  • The Black Code of St. Landry’s Parish, Louisiana, 1865
  • A Report from Occupied Territory by James Baldwin
  • Racial gap in U.S. arrest rates: Staggering disparity
  • The Many Causes of America’s Decline in Crime
  • Chicago police misconduct payouts topped $50 million
  • Police killed more than twice as many people as reported by US government
  • Barack Obama’s Speech on Race
  • Black Voters Turn Out in Big Numbers for Obama
  • Has President Obama Done Enough for Black Americans?
  • The Dream That Never Was: Black Millennials and the Promise of Obama
  • Blacks back 'Occupy', want Obama to be tougher on Wall Street
  • The Terrorists in Blue
  • Obama's Statement on Trayvon Martin's Verdict
  • A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
  • How Trayvon Martin’s Death Launched a New Generation of Black Activism
Practice Exercise
  • Policing Race in America
  • The Obama Presidency
  • The Trayvon Martin Moment

Videos
  • A Generational Divide
  • A Women's Movement
  • Organizing the Movement
  • "Funding the Movement"
  • The Demands of a Movement
  • The Solidarity of a Movement
Readings
  • Al Sharpton's Eulogy for Mike Brown
  • Nurturing black youth activism
  • Not all of the Black freedom fighters are men
  • A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement 
  • Obama on the Grand Jury Decision in the Death of Eric Garner
  • Amid tensions, Sharpton lashes out at younger activists
  • How to fund #BlackLivesMatter
  • Do Foundations Co-Opt Civil Rights Organizations?
  • The Black Youth Project 100 and Minimum Wage
  • Black Lives Matter on the Docks
Practice Exercise
  • The Demographics of the Movement
  • The Organization of the Movement
  • The Politics of the Movement

Videos
  • The George Floyd Moment
  • The Impact of a Movement
  • "A Global Movement"
  • An Anticapitalist Movement
Readings
  • From the George Floyd moment to a Black Lives Matter movement
  • Why The Killing of George Floyd Sparked an American Uprising
  • George Floyd: Five pieces of context to understand the protests
  • Black Lives Matter Protests: What's been achieved so far?
  • The Global Impact of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement
  • Black Lives Matter: From Social Media Post to Global Movement
  • “Black Lives Matter” has become a global rallying cry against racism and police brutality
  • How Black Lives Matter went global, by co-founder Patrisse Cullors
  • Black Lives Matter Protests: Hope for the Future?
Practice Exercise
  • The George Floyd Moment
  • The Impact of the Movement
  • A Global Movement
  • The Future of the Movement

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