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Johns Hopkins University | AS.001.159

Fys: Apartheid as Analogy - Structures of Racial Hierarchy in South Africa, Baltimore, and beyond

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Sites of racial conflict, from Palestine to Baltimore, have been compared to South African Apartheid. This First-Year Seminar examines the creation of a totalizing system of racial segregation and exploitation in twentieth century South Africa, and how it can help us understand histories of race elsewhere in the world, including our own city.

Fall 2022

Professor: Elizabeth Thornberry

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