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RACE,
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
Spring 2004
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the establishment of a racial contract (which erects a system of racial
caste and attempts to structure a universal racial hegemony) as a
fundamental component of the social contract of Western societies,
this course focuses on South Africa and its Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC). Using the 1998 TRC Report, plus several film and
video documentaries (including Bill Moyers’), the course is
a comparative examination and analysis of the parallels, the convergence
and divergence in the legal and political experience primarily in
two multi-racial societies--South Africa and the United States. Modeled
in part on the TRC experience of Chile, the South African TRC was
established as a hearing and amnesty clearance center for crimes against
humanity during the apartheid period in South Africa; the course also
seeks to appraise the TRC approach as a model for dispute resolution
in the future. Various original texts (including these reports, accounts
and stories, films, tape recordings) will be used to scrutinize the
theory of racial contract as illustrated by events in these two countries |
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