First-Year Writing Seminar (101-8-20)

Topic

Fighting Apartheid, Locally and Globally

Instructors

Martha Biondi

Meeting Info

Kresge Centennial Hall 2-329: Tues, Thurs 3:30PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This first year seminar introduces students to apartheid, the system of white supremacy in South Africa that relegated the nation's Black majority to isolated homelands, deprived them of political and civil rights, forcibly extracted their labor and denied them free mobility. A worldwide anti-apartheid movement from the 1940s to the 1990s helped to isolate and bring down the regime. Americans played an important role, including a Black Chicagoan named Prexy Nesbitt whose leadership and organizing anchor some of the seminar.

Class Materials (Required)

Martha Biondi, We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation; Danny Schechter, Madiba A to Z and Trevor Noah, Born a Crime.

Class Attributes

WCAS Writing Seminar

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Weinberg First Year Seminars are only available to first-year students.