FIRST YEAR SEMINARS 166 - Desmond Tutu & Martin Luther King,Jr.:Finding Truth and Reconciliation

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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In this course, students consider two examples of societies that have attempted to deal with a history of racial oppression: South Africa, and the American South, with a focus on Mississippi during the civil rights years. By 1990, the system of apartheid had begun to crumble in South Africa. With the election of Nelson Mandela and the framing of a new constitution, the South African government created a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to try to deal with the outrages of the past and attempt an effort at national unity. The work of the Commission both borrowed from and inspired other Truth Commissions around the world. American historian George Fredrickson has researched a comparative history of racial discrimination in South Africa and America in his book Black Liberation. That provides a general framework for this examination of the two societies. Students consider the civil rights movement in America, and the government's effort to end legal discrimination in this country. They discuss suggestions that have been made to create similar programs of reconciliation and reparations in America.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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