Freedom Summer Semester (June/July/August 2013) ALL CAMPUSES How do we understand & grow the Southern Freedom Movement within the current political realities? How do we begin to DECOLONIZE? The Freedom Summer Semester provides an answer to these and other questions: Class 1: Roots of Racism Genocide, Slavery, the Confederacy, & White Supremacy, Racial justice-healing & […]

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SAN ANTONIO CAMPUS Class 1: Decolonize! (From Colonialism to Liberation) Download SAT University sin Fronteras Class 1 Notes (1.7MB PDF) Class 2: Emancipation Pedagogy Download SAT University sin Fronteras Class 2 Notes (686KB PDF) Class 3: Tex-Mex Revolution 1836-1920 Download  SAT University sin Fronteras Class 3 Notes (1.3MB PDF) Class 4: Revolutionary ‘Corridos’ Impact of Culture […]

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ATLANTA CAMPUS Class 1 – Contextualizing the blues tradition: African cultural resistance to transatlantic enslavement, 1600-1850 USFSpring2013_CultureAndLiberation_Session1Notes (106 KB PDF) USFSpring2013_CultureAndLiberation_Session1Papers (134 KB PDF) Class 2 – The Blues & its roots in Africa, Colonialism & Liberation USFSpring2013_CultureAndLiberation_Session2Notes (330 KB PDF) USFSpring2013_CultureAndLiberation_Session2Papers (196 KB PDF) Class 4 – Hip Hop: Southern sounds, migration & urban rebellion. […]

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Course I: Culture & Liberation in the US South This course will ask the question ‘how can culture and music advance peoples liberation in the US South today?’ The course will uncover the roots of Blues music as a foundation of Black music globally and its evolution as cultural resistance to colonialism, capitalism, and white […]

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University Sin Fronteras is organizing a ‘Liberation Spring’ semester on Tuesdays from 6-8pm starting Class I: Decolonize! (from colonialism to Liberation) Class II: Emancipatory education Class III: Tex-Mex Revolutions (Historiography) Class IV: Revolutionary Corridos (a critical cultural analysis) Class V: Collective Synthesis (what did it all mean?) documented The goal of the Liberation Spring Semester […]

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Academic Calendar Campus Class Title Date/Time Atlanta Blues, Culture & Liberation 3.20-4.17.2013 Atlanta Theory & Praxis 4.12-5.3.2013 Atlanta Palestine Liberation seminar 04/27/13 Atlanta Synthesis Assembly UNSIF 05/11/13 Atlanta Radio Diaspora Educ. Liberation 03/02/13 San Juan Liberation Tools for organizing 04/01/13 San Juan Decolonize PR seminar 04/01/13 San Antonio Colonialism/Liberation course 04/01/13 San Antonio Colonial & […]

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