Themes

Sept. 9: Introduction to course 

African Nations and Realities

Sept 16: Africans and Africa;  African Representation in Maps

            Readings: Thornton pp. 43-57, 66-71, and chaps. 3-4

                            Davis chap. 1

                            Conrad Chaps. 1.1, 1.3-1.5

            Meet in Osher Map Library (in Portland Library)

Slavery

Sept. 23: The Middle Passage and the Colonies

            Readings: Conrad 1.6, 1.7, 1.9

                            Davis chaps. 2-3

                            Thornton chaps. 5-6

            Film: Amistad clip

Sept. 30: Caribbean Women and Slavery, Prof. Maureen Elgersman Lee

            Readings: Thornton, chap. 7

                           Conrad chaps. 3.1, 3.4-3.9

                           Bring Conrad to class, may read excerpts from Chap. 2 in class.

 To go further: Stuart Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996) and Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 (Cambridge, 1985); Hillary Beckles, Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados (1989); Hebert Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986) and The Middle Passage. Comparative Studies of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Princeton University Press, 1978); Katia M. de Queirós Mattoso, To Be a Slave in Brazil, 1550-1888 (Rutgers, 1986); Esteban Montejo, (Miguel Barnet), Biography of a Runaway Slave (Curbstone Press, 1997); Frederick Bowser, The African Slave in Colonial Peru, (Stanford University Press, 1973); Gilberto Freyre, Masters & the Slaves, A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization (Berkeley, 1986); Robert Conrad, World of Sorrow: The African Slave Trade to Brazil, (LSU Press, 1986); Philip Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (University of Wisconsin Press, 1969); Mary Darasch, Slave Life and Culture in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1850 (Princeton University Press, 1986); Colin Palmer, Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650 (Harvard 1976); David Barry Gaspar, Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua (Johns Hopkins, 1985); Franck Tannenbaum, Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas (Vintage, 1946); Stanley Elkins, Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (Chicago, 1959).

 Responses to Slavery and Transitions to Freedom:

 Oct. 7: Resistance and independence

            Film: Quilombo  Meet in 113 Masterton Hall

            Readings: Thornton chap. 10

                            Conrad Chap. 4.9, 9.3-9.4, 9.10, 9,12, 9.15 

                                    Group 1: 9.1, 9.5, 9.7, 9.9, 9.13

                                    Group 2: 9.2, 9.6,9.8, 9.11, 9.14

            Reflection Papers Due

 Oct. 14: Break, no class

 Oct. 21: Women, Slavery, and Race Relations

            Reading: History of Mary Prince led by Group 1 

                          Conrad chap. 5

            Film (optional): A Son of Africa (based on book The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oloudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vaasa the African)

            Annotated Bibliography and Thesis Statement Due

Oct. 28: Comparative Case: Slavery and Freedmen in 17^th century Virginia, Prof. Adam Tuchinsky

            Reading: Conrad chap. 8

To go further: Rebecca Scott, Slave Emancipation in Cuba: The Transition to Free Labor, 1860-1899 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985); T. O. Ott, The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804, (Tennessee, 1973); Louis Pérez, Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (Oxford, 1995); João José Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil (John Hopkins, 1993); Peter Blancard, Slavery and Abolition in the Early Republican Peru (Scholarly Resources, 1992); Robert Conrad, The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, 1850-1888 (Krieger, 1993); Thomas Holt, The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832-1938 (Johns Hopkins, 1991); Verena Stolcke, Marriage, Class, and Colour in Nineteenth-Century Cuba (Michigan, 1989); Jay Kinsbruner, Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico (Duke, 1996); AJR Russel-Wood, The Black Man in Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil; Robert Allison, ed., The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Oloudah Equiano,(Bedford); Philip Curtin, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex; Joaquim Nabuco (trans Robert Conrad), Abolitionism: The Brazilian anti-slavery struggle (Illinois, 1977); Richard Price, Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas (Johns Hopkins, 1979)

Africans Impact on Latin America

Nov. 4: Syncretism: Religious and Cultural

            Reading: Davis chaps. 6-7

                          Thornton chaps. 8-9

                          Conrad 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.6, 4.10

            Papers Due

To go further: Marta Moreno Vega, The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santería (One World/Ballantine, 2001); Linda Heywood, ed. Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora (Cambridge U Press, 2002); 

Nov. 11: Nation Formation, Identity, and Perceptions:

            Reading: Querino (Burns translation) pp. 12-20

                           Davis chaps. 5, 9

            Recommended:  Davis chap. 8

To go Further: Leon D. Pamphile, Haitians and African Americans: A Heritage of Tragedy and Hope (2001); Carolyn Flick, The Making of Haiti (Tennessee, 1990); David Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Color, and National Independence in Haiti (Rutgers, 1996); Theodore G. Vincent, The Legacy of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico’s First Black Indian President (2001); George Reid Andrews, Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil (Wisconsin, 1991); Winthrop R. Wright, Café con Leche: Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela (Texas, 1990); George Reid Andrews, Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900 (Wisconsin, 1980); Harry Hoetink, Race Relations in the Americas; Peter Wade, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America (Pluto 1997);

Nov. 18: Female Realities

            Reading: Reyita led by Group 2 

                          Davis Chap. 11.

            Film (optional): Marcus Garvey: Towards Black Nationhood

To go further: June Hahner, Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Brazil, 1850-1940 (Duke, 1990); Olive Senior, Working Miracles: Women’s Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean (Indiana 1992); Lynn Stoner, From the House to the Streets: The Cuban Women’s Movement for Legal Reform, 1898-1940 (Duke, 1991); Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (California, 1992); Sandra Lauderdale Graham, House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro (Texas, 1992); Verene Shepherd, Bridget Brereton, and Barbara Bainley, Engendering History: Caribbean Women inHistorical Perspective (St. Martin’s Press, 1995); Maria Odila Silva Dias, Power and Everyday Life: The Lives of Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Rutgers, 1995); Moira Ferguson, Nine Black Women; Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, If I Could Write this in Fire.

Nov. 25: Social Movements

Film: The Bob Marley Story

            Readings: Davis Chap. 10

            Recommended: Davis chap. 12

            Papers Due

To go further: ed. Diana Miloslavich Tupac, The Autobiography of María Elena Moyano: The Life and Death of a Peruvian Activist (2000); Jennie Smith, When the Hands Are Many: Community Organization and Social Change in Rural Haiti (Cornell, 2001).

Dec. 2: Student Presentations

Dec. 9: Student presentations 

            Final Papers Due