AFRS 105a - Issues in Africana Studies

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Vassar College

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Topic for 2008/09: The Idea of Freedom in the African and Diasporic Experience. The quest for freedom has been one of humanity's greatest endeavors. In enduring and ultimately combating the injustices of slavery, colonialism, Apartheid and Jim Crow, peoples of African descent, perhaps more than any other group, have contributed to the articulation of more expansive notion of freedom. From Africa's antiquity to its golden age, and from the Euro-African encounter in the fifteenth century to the civil rights and anticolonial movements of the twentieth century, the course looks at the historical, social, moral and ethical foundations for African and African-American ideas of freedom. Using a selection of philosophical tracts, poems, and novels, the course examines African contributions to definitions and expression of freedom. Mr. Rashid.Open to Freshmen only. Satisfies the Freshman Writing Seminar requirement. Topic for 2008/09a: Religion and the Civil Rights Movement. (Same as Religion 105a) Mr. Mamiya, Mr. Kahn.

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1.00

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www.vassar.edu

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(845) 437-7000

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Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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