In Race and Business Ethics in South Africa, you’ll have the opportunity to learn about the historical and contemporary experience of racial minorities from a global perspective. Business leaders, community leaders, and students are seeking knowledge about the ways corporations and institutions have participated in historical and structural racism. Internal and external stakeholders are asking difficult questions about corporate social responsibility in light of these troubling histories.

While in South Africa, you’ll gain an awareness of the historical dimensions of corporate social responsibility and learn more about the intellectual, social, and economic processes of racialization. Furthermore, you’ll begin to build an understanding of the questions involved in determining what the concept of justice may be for a given society: how it contributes to flourishing, how it serves as a constraint to behavior, and what it means for a society to operate in its absence. Corporate leaders now and in the future must confront the internal contradictions of a system seemingly predicated on inequality — and one in which Black people are overrepresented at the bottom of all social well-being metrics. The question is: can values acquisition and innovation within capitalism lead to more positive outcomes for racialized minorities and a renewal of African and U.S. economies on more just grounds?