Radical Thinkers and Movements in the Caribbean

Africana Studies 229

Usual Description

This course engages the works of Caribbean people to document the history of radical thought and movements from the 18th to the mid 20th century. Students are exposed to different areas of the Caribbean and its Diaspora (Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Cuba, Martinique, and the United States, etc.), and its people (Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Arturo Schomburg, Fernando Ortiz, Amy Jacques Garvey, and Shirley Chisholm, etc.) in an examination of revolutionary and nationalist ideologies

Areas of Interest
The Caribbean
The Caribbean
Time Periods

1700 - 1950

Course Listings

These are all of the listings of this course recorded in the Oberlin course catalog since the fall of 2007.

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Africana Studies 229
Africana Studies 229 Taught by Yveline Alexis
Africana Studies 229 Taught by Yveline Alexis

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