COML 6420

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COML 6420
Victimizers, Victims: White South Africans as Refugees

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This course explores an unsettling phenomenon: white South African Afrikaners, the architects and for more than 40 years the political exponents of apartheid, now cast themselves as victims of discrimination. Consequently, they now, in relation to the US, enjoy a privileged status as refugees. This course seeks to provide an account of how we have arrived at this strange historical conjuncture. Those who, for decades, and with impunity, where the perpetrators of racism now claim that they are victims. How did we arrive at this most inexplicable moment? What forces are at play to allow for not only the dissemination of this discourse, but now enable these historical perpetrators to enjoy preferential refugee status?


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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4420, ASRC 6420, COML 4420

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17064 COML 6420   SEM 101

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    • W
    • Jan 25 - May 11, 2027

    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person