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Intersection of African and European History: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Invention of Race
Intersection of African and European History: Science, Pseudoscience, and the Invention of Race
5 sessions: March 11-April 15 (no class on April 8), 11 am-12:20 pm
Presented by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling College Museum Campus, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236
$85 (plus $25 OLLI membership required) | 941-309-5111 • olliringlingcollege.org
Many fine African American history courses have been developed with a high level of scholarship, beginning in Africa and moving across the Atlantic with the slave trade. This course will be presented from a Euro-American perspective. We will look at the evidence of Africa as a global culture before Europe’s “Age of Exploration.” We will examine the intersection of the slave trade with the development of the scientific method in the 17th century and how the slave economy changed Western science, creating a race pseudoscience that perpetuates destructive racial stereotypes.
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