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Academic Year 2000/2001
Slavery in the Americas
ANTH 320 FA
This seminar will examine the development of slavery and racial ideologies in the Americas with explicit comparisons between the slaveholding societies of Latin America, North America and parts of the Caribbean and
in-depth discussion of the ways in
which these regions have traditionally been contrasted by historians and anthropologists. We will utilize primary texts, historical accounts and theoretical analyses of race and slavery with the goal of understanding
both the culture of slavery from
different perspectives and the ways in which legal, religious and state institutions shaped and maintained slave systems in the regions under question.
MAJOR READINGS
INCLUDE ALL OR PARTS OF THE FOLLOWING TEXTS: St. Clair Drake, BLACK FOLK HERE AND THERE Frank Tannenbaum, SLAVE AND CITIZEN Winthrop D. Jordan, WHITE OVER BLACK: AMERICAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE NEGRO, 1550-1812 J.
William Harris (ed.), SOCIETY AND
CULTURE IN THE SLAVE SOUTH Deborah White, AR'N'T I A WOMAN? FEMALE SLAVES IN THE PLANTATION SOUTH Frederick Douglass, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS Laura Foner and Eugene Genovese (eds.), SLAVERY IN
THE NEW WORLD Eugene Genovese,
ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL: THE WORLD THE SLAVES MADE Herbert S. Klein, AFRICAN SLAVERY IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Robert S. Conrad, CHILDREN OF GOD'S FIRE: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF BLACK SLAVERY IN BRAZIL
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Mid-term take home exam: research paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
One class presentation, consistent attendance and participation in discussions. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they
will be dropped from the class
list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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