Debates in Black Studies

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AFST 3305 Debates in Black Studies This writing-intensive course will assist students in honing their rhetorical argumentation skills through the examination of debates in Black Studies from the arrival of Africans in the Americas through the current moment. Debate topics include the following areas: black humanity; gender and sexuality; race and class; immigration and migration; government, rights and civic duty; politics of art; society and individual choice; religion; education; strategies for change; and separatism versus integration. Key words: social change, debate, civic duty