AFRS 206 - Social Change in the Black and Latino Communities

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as RELI 206 and SOCI 206) An examination of social issues in the Black and Latino communities: poverty and welfare, segregated housing, drug addiction, unemployment and underemployment, immigration problems and the prison system. Social change strategies from community organization techniques and poor people’s protest movements to more radical urban responses are analyzed. Attention is given to religious resources in social change. Mr. Mamiya.

This course is taught to Vassar students and incarcerated men at the Otisville Correctional Facility. Special permission is required.