GEND 1006 Lecture 1: January 16
8 Mar 2017
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Leanne bell focuses primarily on american social movements but we want to focus on global movements. We will be getting to canadian content but the civil rights movement was so in uential it"s a good place to start and then move away from. American culture in uences us through pop culture (movies, tv, music) The importance of history to understand social justice is needed for everything to make sense. Civil rights movement = african americans were organizing for change. Primarily it is speci cally black people but other non white groups were working together and supporting this movement. Social context of slavery that begins in the. The kidnapping and purchase of africans (west coast of africa) and their enslavement in the usa began with the spanish colonizers and then it grew tremendously and was adopted by the british colonizers. Legalization of slavery in 1641 and was legal for 240 years.
