History Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 2010
Publication Source
The University of Dayton Magazine
Abstract
Recent events including the World Cup in South Africa have done much to redeem Africa’s global image. Early European visitors wrote about the beauty of the landscape, vegetation, rivers, lakes and mountains, but labeled the inhabitants “natives” and “sub-human.” For too long, the continent was dismissed as an “exotic” place inhabited by “primitive” people considered misfits in the modern world, and as a result, some of the most vicious racial epitaphs have been detonated against them. UD’s immersion experience educates our students and reverses these stereotypes by charging them to discover for themselves firsthand the African people.
Document Version
Published Version
Copyright
Copyright © 2010, University of Dayton
Publisher
University of Dayton
Place of Publication
Dayton, OH
eCommons Citation
Amin, Julius A., "Clear-Eyed: African Immersion" (2010). History Faculty Publications. 113.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/hst_fac_pub/113
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