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Slavery in the Americas
ANTH320 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.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS ANTH    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE

Last Updated on MAR-24-2000

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