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Academic Year 2001/2002


Slavery in the Americas
ANTH 320 FA

Crosslistings:
AFAM 320
LAST 320

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 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2002


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