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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

JS 310 - A Case for Reparations?

This course will analyze, explore, discuss, and debate the broad topic of reparations from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives (historical, sociological, economic, political, etc.). Should the United States make reparations for slavery and subsequent racist policies and practices? Why or why not? What precedents exist? What factors should be considered? If reparations were to be made, what form might they or should they take? The course will begin with Ta-Nehisi
Coates’s article “The Case for Reparations” (2014) and will then go on to examine examples and sources that Coates evokes, as well as a range of other examples and sources.

Credits: 4

Prerequisites/Restrictions: Juniors and Seniors Only

LSC/Core: NA/Junior Seminar AND Engaging Diverse Identities

Notes: Counts as Major/Minor Elective in: N/A