AAST 229 - Radical Thinkers and Movements in the Caribbean

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD, WINT

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

Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: Y. Alexis