African American Social Ethics

3 credits · Divinity School

This course is an introduction to the African American moral landscape as espoused by Black moral thinkers and the real-lived plight of Black people. This broad experience will be explored via social ethics and through the collective quest for freedom, the struggle for liberation, the meaning agency, and the nature of moral faith and witness. In depth study will be given to particular contestable ethical issues (namely, sexuality, violence, rage, racism, sexism, poverty, and justice) via the religious rationale of Black people whose efforts have been to link divine justice and social justice. This course is taught with a commitment to social change through attention to anti- racism, diversity, and multiculturalism. [3] Ms. Floyd-Thomas