"This course introduces students to the notion that the end of slavery in the U.S. was less a monumental break and rupture in American history than a transformation of anti-Blackness from one institution into others. We will explore what Saidiya V. Hartman calls ‘the afterlife of slavery’: Black skewed life chances, limited access to health and education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment as the continuation of a system that formal emancipation never intended to cease. Case studies will include the Reconstruction era, Black massacres and lynchings during Jim Crow, redlining and segregation during the mid-20th century, and ongoing racial inequities in the wake of the George Floyd uprising."