Syllabi are available upon request. Please email me at auscmccoy@gmail.com. I reserve the right to decline requests to send syllabi.
Courses Taught:
West Virginia University (2022-Present)
HIST 153: Making Modern America: 1865 to the Present
HIST 261: Recent America: US Since 1918
HIST 460: World War II in America
HIST 470: The Civil Rights Movement
HIST 477: Working Class America
HIST 493G: Issues in African American History: The History of Hip-Hop Culture in America
HIST 763.001: Seminar: U.S. History: 1898 to the Present
Auburn University (2018-2022)
HIST 1020: World History 2 (From the 18th Century to the Present)
HIST 3030: African American History, from enslavement to the present
HIST 3060: Issues in African-American History: The History of Hip Hop Culture in America
HIST 4950: Senior Thesis: Historical Research and Writing
HIST 5070: United States History: 1929 to the Present
HIST 6070: United States History: 1929 to the Present (Graduate Section)
HIST 7710: Graduate Research and Writing Seminar
University of Michigan (2015-2018)
HIST 231/AAS 203: Resisting State Violence: Race, Policing, and Social Justice in 20th Century America
HIST 195: Debating Justice, Politics, and Culture in Black America: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter
Class Playlists (Spotify)
HIST 493 Hip-Hop History (Playlist curated by students in the class)
HIST 3030: Hip-Hop and the War on Drugs
Recent US: The 1970s
Rap and the Environment
Resisting State Violence Class Playlist
Teaching Black Lives Matter (Nursing Clio)
Oxford Research Encyclopedia: Rap Music
Resources
“The History of Hip-Hop Culture in America—Syllabus,” Clio and the Contemporary
“A #HipHop50 Syllabus,” Black Perspectives (August 2023).
Selected Readings and Resources inspiring “Defund the Police” NHC Talk
“Teaching In a Polarized Political Climate Workshop” (2017).
“Teaching in the Era of Black Lives Matter,” Nursing Clio (2016).
Political Writing, Organizing, and Institutional Building
Students assemble in groups and form their own civil rights or black power organizations. They have to explain their organization’s ideology, tactics, strategies, and goals.
POC Campus Activism Bibliography
Public bibliography inspired by student protests at the University of Michigan, UCLA, Yale, University of Missouri, and other colleges and universities.
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