PAS 205

Race, Color and Consciousness - D1, SB

Do #BlackLivesMatter advocates have a legitimate argument that America has historically and contemporarily marginalizes people based on race? ls race more important than class? Does America define race differently than other countries? This course wrestles with these questions and more as it explores how the African-descended experience has developed in different ways around the globe. The historic struggle for personhood and humanity by African people when they encounter non-colored core groups in various western societies also has certain commonalities. The course focuses on the experiences of diasporic Africans in North America, South America, and the Caribbean who have lived in societies that are socially, politically, and economically controlled by such groups. It is especially designed to expose students to a comparative view of race relations and reasoning in a number of societies in an effort to more fully examine the evolving American approach to race

Units: 3.0