Quest Courses – Spring 2023 / Old Courses / SLAVERY’S ROLE IN U.S. CAPITALISTIST DEVELOPMENT
Coordinators: Richard Byrd, June Zaccone
It is impossible to understand our country without incorporating the role of slavery in its history. Slavery helped shape its institutions, legal and voting systems, labor and foreign relations, social welfare and much else.
This course will first look at that history, assess Black strategy and response, and the extent of the remaining injustice to the descendants of those enslaved.
A WEEK / WED / 10:30am to 12:00pm
[wptb id="3837" not found ]Other Classes:
- CREATIVE WORKSHOP
- EMILY DICKINSON CIRCLE
- RUSSIAN GEOGRAPHY
- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH CULTURE
- AUSTRALIA – THE LAND DOWN UNDER
- HUCKLEBERRY FINN
- FASCINATING ISLANDS
- THE NOBEL PRIZES
- READING EDITH WHARTON
- WOMEN IN GREEK DRAMA
- THE NEAR EAST
- A PASSAGE TO INDIA
- INDIE FILMS
- INDIE FILMS
- RISE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
- READING THE RABBIS
- RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
- MYTHOLOGY
- LITERARY HEROINES
- HOWARDS END
- HOUSE OF MIRTH
- FABULOUS FIFTIES
- READING BLACK LIVES
- BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
- MOZART’S WOMEN
- ANTISEMITISM: PAST, PRESENT, FACTS, MYTHS
- AFRICAN CONTINENT
- PRESENTER’S SHOWCASE
- INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD
- ACTING CLASS
- ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
- LAW & ORDER
- POINT OF VIEW
- MOVERS & SHAKERS
- SOCRATES AND THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY
- GREAT CONVERSATIONS