AFRCNA 0031 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Black People, Africana Studies, Civil And Political Rights
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Africana studies: born out of struggle and resistance. Time period: 1960s served both as a context and encouragement for the emergence of a student movement which linked itself to the larger struggles for social change on both campus and off campus. Four basic thrusts of the student movement the civil rights movement the free speech movement the anti-vietnam war movement the black power movement. Civil rights movement: breakdown barriers of legal segregation in public accommodations, achieve equality and justice for black americans, organize black americans into self-conscious force capable of defining, defending and advancing their interests. The free speech movement: a largely white student led protest against the rigid, arbitrary, restrictive and unresponsive character of the university. The anti-war movement the general student protest against the vietnam war. Philosophical considerations of black studies: the critical and persistent truth and meaning in human history and social reality from an.
