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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to major themes in African history to 1800. It investigates agricultural and iron revolutions, states and empires, religious movements, and patterns of migration and labor exploitation. The latter part of the course focuses on Africa in the era of trans-Atlantic slave trade. Questions to explore include: What was the effect of the slave trade on Africa? How did the slave trade shape the formation and destruction of African states? How did the slave trade influence social systems, gender relations, cultural practices, religious beliefs, and demographics in Africa?
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to major themes in African history to 1800. It investigates agricultural and iron revolutions, states and empires, religious movements, and patterns of migration and labor exploitation. The latter part of the course focuses on Africa in the era of trans-Atlantic slave trade, from 1550 to 1800. We will study the various methods that historians use to investigate the past; we will also delve into some of the intellectual debates surrounding pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade. By the end of the course, students will have a firm understanding of states and societies in Africa in the pre-colonial period.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an overview of modern South Africa from the perspective of radical social history, a major intellectual tradition in South African studies. It will begin by identifying processes of dispossession, urbanization and proletarianization set in train by South Africa's mineral revolution. It will then look at the clash between imperial and Boer interests, and the South African war. The Union of South Africa in 1910 represented a re-organization of white power, and the course will turn to the experiences of Union for both black and white, including the emergence of African nationalism and other, culturally-located, forms of resistance. The apartheid state was inaugurated in 1948, and the course will examine the consolidation of the state, how it sought to control black and white citizens and subjects, and the accelerating politics of defiance. There will be particular emphasis on Black Consciousness and its role in the 1976 Soweto revolt. By way of conclusion the course will turn to the culture and politics of resistance in the 1980s, up to the initial dismantling of apartheid in 1990.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course explores the role of coerced African labor in the birth of the Atlantic World. What do we mean by Atlantic World? What do we mean by slavery? What varied and nuanced claims to humanity did Africans make against a dehumanizing labor system? How did sexuality and gender norms shape the experiences of slavery for men and women? Together we will examine slave autobiographies, travel diaries, and pictorial sources to address these questions. We will focus on the peoples of West Africa, Brazil, the United States and the Caribbean who were enslaved from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of Brazil, Latin America's largest nation, from its pre-Columbian roots to the present, with particular emphasis on social, economic, and political developments during that time. Topics will include indigenous people, the formation of colonial societies and economies, independence, slavery, abolition and post-emancipation society, immigration, the emergence of populist politics, industrialization, and efforts to develop the Amazon, military rule, and democratization.
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3.00 Credits
This course will trace the cultural, economic and political history of African American women in the United States from slavery to the present. Through a combination of books, primary sources, and film we will explore how African American women have addressed what is often referred to as the "double burden" of sexism and racism while seeking to define their own identities as individuals, wives, mothers, workers, and citizens. Major themes will include labor, family social movements, and civil rights.
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3.00 Credits
Despite popular images of American as a "melting" both of races and ethnicities, our institutions, values, and practices have often tried to create or maintain spatial and social distance between groups defined as racially different. This course will explore that ways in which Americans have transgressed those boundaries or found other ways of interacting across cultural lines, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will examine popular cultural perceptions of people of mixed ancestry, their social experiences, the development of various mixed-ancestry communities, and historical attempts to limit interracial socializing, relationships, and marriage. These issues were and are deeply imbedded in debates over the meaning of race, gender expectations and ideas about sex and sexuality. We will also pay close attention to how minority communities have understood people of mixed ancestry in the United States, and how mixed-race identities intersect with African American, Native American, Asian, White, and Latino identities.
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3.00 Credits
Home to over a billion people, just over 23% of humanity, the South Asian subcontinent is a fascinating laboratory in which to analyze the unfolding of such themes in modern history as colonialism, nationalism, partition, decolonization, post-colonial democracies, the modern state, economic development, center-region problems and relations between Asia and the West. The course will consider critical themes in social, political, economic, and cultural history, which will include imperialism, capitalism, nationalism, religious politics, regionalism, ethnicity, globalization, diaspora, ecology, social inequality, and gender, development, and democracy. It will not only provide a lively historical narrative told through lectures based on scholarly research and primary texts, but will also seek to embellish this narrative with the perception and articulation of vision and sound, as well as with readings from representative genres of South Asian literature.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the social, economic, intellectual, cultural, and political history of the early to mid-nineteenth-century United States through the prism of Abraham Lincoln's biography. Topics may include trans-Appalachian migration and settlement, US-Native American relations, race and slavery, gender and family, market developments and labor relations, formal and informal politics, the law, and the promise and limits of studying history through singular lives.
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3.00 Credits
The relationship between science and race has been going on a long time and is only getting more confusing. Science has been used in support of racial categorization; science has been used to tear down notions of race-based categories. Biology and anthropology specifically have been used to both support and refute racism. In this class, we will examine the diverse interactions between science and race from the 18th century to the present era of human genomics. We will look both at the scientific study of race and the impact of racial concepts on science, interactions that have given us Nazi medicine, eugenics, the Tuskegee airmen experiments, and modern day pharmaceutical trials in Africa. Throughout, we'll be looking at the personal stories of scientists from minority ethnic groups and questioning the racial demographics of science in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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