GHIS 5120 -

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The New School

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The History of Race and Slavery in the New World Spring 2009. Three credits. Robin Blackburn This course furnishes an overview of successive forms of racial oppression in the history of the Americas, with a special focus on the rise and fall of black slavery in the New World covering all parts of the hemisphere, and the whole period 1492-1888. It looks at the ideologies that inspired colonial conquests and settlement in the New World and at the shape of early colonial society. It seeks to explain why Europeans brought African captives to the Americas, and to explore the dynamic of the slave plantations and their link to the development of capitalism. It also looks at the growth of a new social world in the wake of the Atlantic boom of the 18th century and of the revolutionary struggles to which this gave rise in Haiti and elsewhere. Special consideration will be given to the ethnic identities that emerged in the later colonial period and at the relationship of newly independent American states to slavery and race. Slavery was destroyed in the course of a momentous series of wars and revolutions whose course and connections will be considered. Black anti-slavery and white abolitionism became significant and innovative social forces. The experience of slavery itself gave rise to a powerful African-American cultural legacies, but the course will also seek to explain why the suppression of slavery was succeeded by new forms of racial oppression. Cross-listed as LHIS 4465. GHI S 5122 Readings on the Right Fall 2008. Three credits. Julia Ott The class offers a workshop in historical research and writing, with an emphasis on the evolution of conservative thought and politics in the United States. We will trace continuity and change in the meaning of the "conservative" label and in the nature of the groups that identify,or are identified with, conservatism. Students will encounter a range of conservative thinkers, evaluate historians' analyses of conservative movements, and produce an original research paper. This course fulfils the qualitative methods requirement for an MA in political science. Cross-listed with Political Science, GPOL 5122 and LHIS 4506. 61

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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