Read on: "This syllabus provides a list of resources for teaching and learning about the current economic crisis in Puerto Rico. Our goal is to contribute to the ongoing public dialogue and rising social activism regarding the debt crisis by providing historical and sociological tools with which to assess its roots and its repercussions. The … Continue reading DIGITAL/BOOKS: The Puerto Rico Syllabus #PRSyllabus
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DIGITAL/BOOKS: The Caribbean Syllabus: Life and Debt in the Caribbean
Read on: "More than one hundred years after enslavement, emancipation, and nation-building, many of the twenty-six countries that today make the Caribbean rank among the most indebted in the world. As a result, in 2014, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), a regional group of 14 island-nations sued its former colonizers–Britain, France, and the Netherlands–for slavery reparations. … Continue reading DIGITAL/BOOKS: The Caribbean Syllabus: Life and Debt in the Caribbean
BLOGROLL: The Charlottesville Syllabus
University of Virginia Graduate Coalition responds to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, VA. The list includes several books on histories of slavery and the South: "The Charlottesville Syllabus is a resource created by the Graduate Student Coalition for Liberation to be used to educate readers about the long history of white supremacy in Charlottesville, Virginia. … Continue reading BLOGROLL: The Charlottesville Syllabus