Spring 2008

African American and African Studies

AAS 102 – Crosscurents in the African Diaspora (4)

Instructors: Marlon Ross and Ian Grandison

1230-1345 TR

MIN 125

This introductory course builds upon the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean surveyed in AAS 101. Drawing on disciplines such as anthropology, history, religious studies, political science, sociology, geography, mapping, and spatial analysis, the course focuses on the period from the late 19th century to the present and is comparative in perspective. It examines the links and disjunctions between communities of African descent in the United States and in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The course begins with an overview of AAS, its history, assumptions, boundaries, and topics of inquiry, and then proceeds to focus on a number of inter-related themes: patterns of cultural experience; community formation; comparative racial classification; language and society; family and kinship; religion; social and political movements; arts and aesthetics; and archaeology of the African Diaspora.

AAS 307 – History of Brazil (3)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

12:30-1:45 TR

CAB 337

This class surveys the History of Brazil from early Portuguese colonization in the sixteenth century to Brazilian Independence in 1822. It places the onset of the colonization of Brazil against the backdrop of the broader Portuguese empire between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It devotes significant attention to the establishment and growth of indigenous slavery and the transition to African slavery, dwelling on the intellectual and religious debates that the establishment of slavery brought about in the colony and the metropolis. It analyzes the social, political, cultural, and religious underpinnings of colonial Brazil by seeking to integrate Brazilian history into the broader Atlantic World, primarily Africa and the Spanish colonies in the Americas. In addition to lectures and discussions, several movies on colonial Brazil will be shown.
(This course is cross-listed with HILA 307)

AAS 351 - African Diaspora Religions (3)

Jalane Schmidt

930-1045 TR

HAL 123

The seminar will feature close readings of ethnographic literature about African diaspora religions, and require students to write a seminar-length final paper. Often deemed emblematic of these groups' ethnic identities, the religious practices of African-descended populations in Latin America and the Caribbean are a frequent site of inquiry for cultural anthropologists. We will examine the often-polemical "African retention" vs. "creolization" debate as this relates to changing theoretical paradigms in anthropology and to African-descended populations' shifting political fortunes, activism, and cultural cachet. We will attend to changing conceptions of "race," "religion," and "nation" in the treatment of these religions by legal institutions, as well as how officials from the tourism industry and government ministries have influenced processes of "folkloricization."
(This course is cross-listed as RELA 351)

AAS 401 – Independent Study (1-3)

Topic to be determined by the instructor and the student

AAS 402 – Africa and the Black Atlantic (3)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

1530-1800 R

CAB 236

This seminar investigates the relationship between Africa and the Atlantic World between the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries. The class begins by undertaking a critical reading of the historiography of the Black Atlantic/African Diaspora (Gilroy, Matory, Mann, among several others), then moving on to analyze contemporaneous accounts by Africans, including Equiano. Key issues that will be treated are the circulation of ideas in the Atlantic through the rise of the Afro-Brazilian religion, Candomblé, the conceptualization of slavery and the Atlantic world by Africans, as well as both failed and successful reverse migration movements. Students will write a research paper based on the accounts analyzed in class.
(Cross-listed as HIAF 401A)

AAS 406A – Gendered Experiences in Africa and its Diaspora (3)

Instructor: Edwina Ashie-Nikoi

1530 -1800 M

BRN 310

This seminar explores the interconnections between gender and history in Africa and its Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. The course will pay particular attention to the experiences of women of the African Diaspora, but will also explore the experience of men and their articulations of masculinity, and will examine how gendered readings could challenge our understandings and assumptions about historical events in the Diaspora. Readings for the course will be multidisciplinary, and include novels and auto/biographies such as The History of Mary Prince, the only biography of an enslaved woman in the Caribbean. The seminar proceeds from the theoretical perspective that gender is a critical and indispensable category of historical analysis that interlocks with race, class, and other factors. The course will culminate in a 17-25 page research paper.

AAS 406 B – Racial Geographies of Virginia (3)

Instructor: Ian Grandison

1830-2100 T

BRN 332

Traditionally, geography is a scientific discipline devoted to studying and recording, through the supposedly neutral lens of empirical observation, the distribution of features or "resources" (minerals, soils, terrain, drainage, vegetation, wildlife, climate, tribes, clans, kingdoms, nations, "races") that exist at, below, or above the earth's surface. In the popular imagination, geography is often seen as the hobby of people who like to know what and where things are in the world, whether for the love of trivia or for the leisure of touristic adventure. An experimental seminar, this course resonates with "critical geography," which challenges both academic and popular assumptions about geography. Informed and inspired by cultural critique in the humanities, critical geography is a new area of inquiry that interrogates the presumed empirical neutrality of the discipline by focusing on how geographic knowledge has been shaped by the messy negotiation of power among social groups. Critical geography rejects theories of environmental determinism whereby the temperament and social progress of the world's peoples are seen as wholly determined by regional climates and ranked on a scale from primitive to civilized. Thus, racial geography acknowledges the ways in which human groups, arbitrarily distinguished through race, have been among the resources catalogued by geography for the purpose of exploitation. This seminar will serve as a forum for participants to collaborate on delineating the scope of the notion of "racial geography" using the state of Virginia-in any or all of its past or present configurations-as a frame of reference. How has the formation of race helped to give rise to the idea of Virginia, first as a crown colony, then as a commonwealth? How has the emergence of Virginia with its shifting territorial boundaries (from colonization to birthplace of North American slavery, from capital of the confederacy to headquarters of massive resistance against desegregation) been geographically constructed through the notion of race (enterprising settlers, indentured servants, savage vs. friendly natives, chattel slaves, immigrant aliens)? The seminar is conducted through a variety of short, intensive readings; map interpretation workshops; informal individual and group exercises; and field trips. Graded requirements include a midterm exam and a final critical essay (3750 to 5000 words).

AAS 406C – Black Power and the Civil Rights Movement

Instructor: Julian Hayter

1530-1800T

CAB 432

This seminar explores the relationship between the American civil rights movement and the black power movement. Recently, a number of scholars have started to expand the traditional chronology of the two movements by searching for their ideological and social origins. In their search, these historians insist that the noncompliant ideology found in the black power movement (e.g., armed resistance, black nationalism, communism, & socialism) and the black populism commonly associated with the civil rights movement, both pre-date WWII. Scholars have also found that these supposedly distinct forms of activism were combined in various times and places, suggesting that the black power movement may not have been a complete refutation of civil rights activism. We will interrogate this supposed binary through class discussion and readings. We will consider how civil rights activists used measures commonly associated with black power ideology, and we will explore how the marriage of these allegedly dissimilar movements informed the construction of black power politics during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Readings, class discussion, and research will culminate into a 17-20-page paper.

AAS 406D – Blood Diamonds, Black Gold and Joe: The History of African Commodities

Instructor: Todd Cleveland

1530-1800R

CAB 234

Africa is playing an increasingly important role in furnishing three of the world’s most coveted commodities: diamonds, oil and coffee. Each of these items also has a long history on the continent, dating back to the colonial era and, in the case of coffee, even earlier. In this course, we will explore and compare the histories of these commodities, focusing on the labor forces involved in production, the political economies in which production took place and the ways these commodities shaped (and continue to shape) contemporary developments on the continent. We will pay close attention to the relationships between commodities and the major political, social and economic changes on the continent, such as the onset and conclusion of
European colonialism, and the ways that the production of these commodities has both hastened and delayed these developments. The course’s geographic scope will take us across the continent, from “Cape Town to Cairo,” while temporally we will pay special attention to changes over time related to commodity importance and production and will also historicize contemporary commodity phenomena such as “blood diamonds,” “Dutch Disease” and “neo-colonialism,” thereby connecting contemporary African society with the African past. There will be a variety of assignments, culminating in a 17-20-page paper.

AAS 451 – Directed Research for DMP (3)

Meeting time to be determined by instructor and student

AAS 452 – Thesis for DMP (3)

Meeting time to be determined by instructor and student

AAS 528 – Topics in Race Theory: White Supremacy

Instructor: Wende Marshall

1900-2130W

CAU 116

Who is "white"? What is white supremacy? What is the relationship between white supremacy and globalization, whiteness and class power? If "race" is a "social construct," is it also an alibi for white supremacy? How and where is white supremacy deployed in the U.S. and the world? Is the white supremacy manifest by low wealth "whites" a product of hegemony, or false consciousness? If the discourse on non-whites centers on pathological behaviors, what might we construe as (im)proper white behavior? These questions will guide our explorations into the practices and ideologies, structures and discourses of whiteness in post-Reconstruction U.S. and elsewhere. Course Meets: Second Writing Requirement.
(Cross-listed as ANTH 528)

 

American Studies

AMST 401 – The Landscapes of Slavery (3)

Instructor: Maurie McInnis

1300-1530 R

FHL 215

From January to April 2007, a major exhibition, "The Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art," will be at the University of Virginia Art Museum featuring more than 80 works by more than 50 artists spanning 1800 to the present. Artists include: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Thomas Hart Benton, William Johnson, Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, Joyce Scott, Romare Bearden, Juan Logan, and Kara Walker, among others. Working closely with the works in the exhibition, this class will examine the visual depictions of the plantation South in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and tackle questions of politics, protest, memory, nostalgia, and identity. In addition to examining the work of painters who tackled the subject, this class will also look at how the region was portrayed in the popular press, in novels, and in film. Students will do their research projects on works in the exhibition.This class fulfills the second writing assignment.
(Cross-listed as ARTH 491)

 

Department of Anthropology

ANTH 256 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa (3)

Instructor: Njoki Osotsi

1400-1515 MW

CAB 119

The course surveys topics in modern Africa, through a variety of readings, films, and music. Historical developments over the last 500 years will be given, including how these historic processes have determined and continue to shape contemporary life in Africa. The effects of Western narratives of Africa and African peoples will be studied, as well as how international aspects of African conflicts, including the DRC and Sierra Leone have affected African cultures. The course will also analyze current cultural issues including religion and cosmology, politics, marriage, family life, and female circumcision, to show the complexity, diversity, and richness of lives and societies in Africa. This is a lecture and discussion course.

ANTH 304 – France in North Africa and North Africa in France (3)

Instructor: Anna Lim

1530-1800 T

CAB 319

This course traces the complex and often controversial relationship between France and North Africa, exploring both French "presence" in North Africa under colonialism, and the later North African "presence" in France through what is generally referred to as "post-colonial migrations." We will interrogate the meaning of "decolonization" and the subsequent construction of mutually exclusive categories "French" and "North African," and ask how the colonial past and the relationship between North Africa and France are conceived by both North Africans and the French. We will pay particular attention to the case of Algeria, which, under colonialism, was considered part of French national territory and where French nationality had been extended to all native-born inhabitants. We will also look at how the ideological construction of a secular France and a Muslim North Africa factored into issues of citizenship under colonialism, and continue to play out in framing the current debates over immigration. This course will combine lecture and seminar formats.
(Cross-listed as MESA 304)

ANTH 401C – Contemporary African Societies

Instructor: Adria LaViolette

1700-1930T

CAB 325

This seminar engages the human landscape of modern Africa, through the close reading of a selection of monographs and African feature films from diverse cultural and geographical areas. The texts are drawn from fiction, ethnography, life history, and social history, and are taught against a backdrop of economic strategies, forms of social organization, and challenges facing modern African women and men. We will discuss urban and rural transformations, the elite and poor, and the forces that draw them together; transnational migration; and belief systems. How relationships between men and women are contextualized and negotiated is a theme found throughout the readings and films, as well as the struggle of people in different circumstances to build new relationships with older beliefs and practices, and with new forms of government. Meets second writing requirement if you submit a draft of your paper for comments prior to your final submission.

ANTH 528 – Topics in Race Theory: White Supremacy

Instructor: Wende Marshall

1900-2130W

CAU 116

Who is "white"? What is white supremacy? What is the relationship between white supremacy and globalization, whiteness and class power? If "race" is a "social construct," is it also an alibi for white supremacy? How and where is white supremacy deployed in the U.S. and the world? Is the white supremacy manifest by low wealth "whites" a product of hegemony, or false consciousness? If the discourse on non-whites centers on pathological behaviors, what might we construe as (im)proper white behavior? These questions will guide our explorations into the practices and ideologies, structures and discourses of whiteness in post-Reconstruction U.S. and elsewhere. Course Meets: Second Writing Requirement.
(Cross-listed as AAS 528)

Department of Art History

ARTH 263 – Arts and Cultures of the Slave South

Instructors: Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson

1530-1645 W

CLRK 108

“Arts and Cultures of the Slave South” is an undergraduate, interdisciplinary course that covers the American South to the Civil War. While the course centers on the visual arts—architecture, material culture, decorative arts, painting, and sculpture—it is not designed as a regional history of art, but an exploration of the interrelations between history, material and visual cultures, foodways, music and literature in the formation of Southern identities. The course will cover subjects ranging from African American spirituals to creolization and ethnicities in Louisiana, from the plantation architectures of both big house and outbuildings to the narratives of former slaves. In the process, students will be introduced to the interpretive methods central to a wide range of disciplines, from archaeology and anthropology, to art and architectural history, to material culture, literature, and musicology. In addition to two weekly lectures by co-faculty Maurie McInnis and Louis Nelson, students will also attend weekly discussion sections and special events including guest lectures, field trips, movie nights, and demonstrations and samplings of traditional southern foods.
(Cross-listed as CCFA 202)

 

Department of Drama

DRAM 307- African American Theatre

Instructor: Theresa Davis

1400-1515 TR

DRM 217

Course description unavailable

Department of English

ENAM 314 African-American Literature II (3)

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

9:30-10:45

CAB 323

Course description unavailable

ENAM 481A – African American Women Writers (3)

1530-1645 MW

BRN 332

Instructor: Angela Davis

We will read several novels and short stories by African American women, examining in particular how the authors portray black women as individuals and in the context of American society. This course requires active class participation, two written responses to readings (each 2 to 3 double spaced typed pages long) and a formal essay (12 to 15 pages long). The reading list is: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls; Toni Morrison, Sula, and Tar Baby; Alice Walker, In Love and Trouble; Paule Marshall, Brown Girl, Brownstones; Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place. Restricted to English, African-American Studies, and Women's Studies Majors

ENAM 482B – African-American Speculative Fiction (3)

1100-1215 TR

CAB 335

Instructor: Lisa Woolfork

Course description unavailable

ENAM 482 C – Dubois’ Souls of Black Folks (3)

Instructor: Deborah McDowell

1400-1515 TR

BRN 328

This course is devoted entirely to W.E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk (1903)--its reception history, its encyclopedic roots and sources, its surrounding contexts, as well as the depth of its influence on African-American literature and intellectual history. We will consider the book’s structuring metaphors and concepts ¬ “souls,” “folk,” “veil,” and “double-consciousness” ¬ and pursue the various manifestations of DuBois’s most famous aphorism: “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” We will also address matters concerning the construction of black masculinity in the post-Emancipation South, the psychological complexities of identity, theories of race, and the poetics and politics of mourning. Texts will include the following essays by DuBois: “What is the Negro Problem?” “The Conservation of Races,” “The Concept of Race,” “The Negro as He Really Is” (with accompanying photographic illustrations), and “Phillis Wheatley and Africam American Culture.” Other selections include Goethe’s Faust, Negro spirituals (what DuBois termed “the sorrow songs”), Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (selections), Tennyson’s “In Memoriam,” Emerson’s “Fate” and “The Transcendentalist,” Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil,” William James’s The Principles of Psychology (excerpts), Thomas Dixon’s The Leopard’s Spots, Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery, Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood, Tennyson’s “In Memoriam,” Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice from the South, and Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition, as well as DuBois’s correspondence with William James, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Jessie Fauset, and others. Near the end of the course, we will briefly address the international dimension of DuBois’s work and influence, particularly the Pan-African connection.

ENLT 247 – Black Writers in America (3)

Instructor: Rosemary Millar

930-1045 TR

TBA

This course surveys pivotal moments and texts in the history of Black prose. We will examine both canonical and non-canonical texts and a variety of genres-spiritual autobiographies, speeches, short stories, and novels. We will explore a number of themes including the uses of folk/oral tradition, heroism, alienation, class, gender and colour consciousness. Possible texts include Maria S Stewart’s “Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality”; Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children; Paule Marshall Praise Song for the Widow. We will also examine the relation between the black vernacular tradition and the black formal text as well as political, cultural and critical issues of the writers’ time and our own. To continue to hone our reading and writing skills, active class participation, presentations and three essays (5-7 pages) are required. A final exam is also required. Restricted to first and second-year students.

ENMC 482C - Contemporary African-American Drama (3)

Instructor: Lotta Löfgren

1230-1345 TR

CAB 331

We will survey African-American drama from the 1950's to the present. Along the way, we will place the drama in relation to established norms, investigating the motives and methods of the playwrights for carving out new ground. We will examine the shared and divergent concerns of male and female playwrights, their sense of audience, the dilemma of writing as an individual and as a member of a group silenced too long, their relationship to the past, the present, and the future. We will also examine the changing definitions of the black aesthetic. We will read works by James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Adrienne Kennedy, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, and others.

 

Department of French Language and Literature

FREN 345 - Topics in Cultural Studies: Haitian Voices

Instructor: Stephanie Hopwood

1400-1515 TR

CHM 260

On January 1, 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines renamed Saint Domingue as the newly independent nation of Ayiti, the name taken from the Taino word for “land of mountains.” Thus Haiti, at the time the world’s richest colony, became the world’s first Black Republic. Less than three years after independence, however, Haiti’s first emperor for life was ambushed and assassinated, setting into motion a domino-effect of national catastrophes that would endure for over two centuries and render the once wealthy island the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.
Taking into account Haiti’s rich, complicated, and largely tragic history, we will examine the Haitian novel from 1944 to 1992, focusing on such themes as national identity, the intersection of memory and dictatorship, (de)zombification, and exile. Readings will include novels by Jacques Roumain (Gouverneurs de la rosée), Jacques Stephen Alexis (Compère Général Soleil), Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Amour, Colère, et Folie), René Depestre (Le Mât de Cocagne), and Dany LaFerrière (Le Goût des jeunes filles). Course requirements will consist of several short papers, a mid-term, a final exam, and active participation.

FREN 346 – African Literatures and Culures (3)

Instructor: Kandioura Dramé

10-1050 MWF

CLM 322A

Prerequisite: French 332

This course will explore aspects of African literatures and cultures. It will focus on selected issues of special resonance in contemporary African life. Oral literature and its continuing impact on all other art forms. Key issues in French colonial policy and its legacy in Africa: language, politics, education. The course will examine the image of the postcolonial state and society as found in contemporary arts, paintings, sculpture, music, and cinema. Selections from painters like Cheri Samba (Democratic Republic of Congo), Werewere Liking (Cameroun) and sculptors like Ousmane Sow, including such popular icons as Mamy Wata and forms such as Souwere glass painting; from musicians like Youssou Ndour (Senegal), Cheb Khaled (Algeria), Seigneur Rochereau, Tshala Muana (DRC), Salif Keita (Mali), and Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde); from Mande, Peul, and Kabyle oral literatures in French translation; from filmmakers D.D. Mambety, Moussa Sene Absa, and Ngangura Mweze. Visit to National Museum of African Arts depending on availability of funding. The final grade will be based on contributions to discussions, a mid-term exam, 2 papers, and a final exam.

Selections from the following texts will feature among the required reading list:
Wéréwéré Liking - Statues colons
A. Sow - La Femme, la Vache, la Foi
D.T. Niane - Soundjata ou l'épopée mandingue
Amadou Hampaté Ba - Koumen
Mouloud Mammeri - Poèmes Kabyles anciens

FREN 570 – Francophone Literature of Africa (3)

Instructor: Kandioura Drame

1530-1800M

WIL 414B

Survey of 20th century Francophone literature of Africa. Colonial literature and Assimilation; Negritude, Nationalism and Identity; Postcolonial literature; Feminism; Literature and Censorship; Language and Literature; Theatre and ritual performance; and Oral literature as a major intertext will all be examined through novels, poems, and plays by contemporary African writers in French. Authors will include Senghor, B. Diop, C. Beyala, M. Beti, A. Laabi, Djebar, Mimouni, Utamsi, Werewere Liking, Rabemanjara, and Ken Bugul. Weekly response papers, brief mid-semester oral presentations and bibliographies of the selected research subjects and a research paper (F570: 12-15 pages; F870: 20-25 pages) are required.

Required Reading:
Mongo Beti – Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba
Bernard Dadié- Béatrice du Congo
Sony Labou Tansi- La Parenthèse de sang suivi de Je soussigné cardiaque
Assia Djebar- Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement
Driss Chraibi- L’Homme du livre
Alain Mabanckou- Memoire de porc-epic
Calixte Beyala- Comment cuisiner son mari à l’Africaine
Fatou Diome – Le Ventre de l’Atlantique
Ousmane Sembène- Guelwaar
Michel Hauser- Littératures francophones: III. Afrique noire, Océan indien.
Jacques Noiray- Littératures francophones: I. Le Maghreb.

 

Department of History

HIAF 202 – Modern African History

Instructor: John Mason

1700-1815 TR

CAB 311

This course explores the history of Africa from the decline of the Atlantic slave trade, in the early nineteenth century, to the present. Our goal is to examine the historical roots of the continent's contemporary condition, both good and bad. We look at the slave trade and its consequences, the European conquest of most of the African continent, African resistance to colonial rule, and the reestablishment of African independence.
We concentrate on three regions: West Africa, especially Nigeria; Central Africa, especially the Congo and Rwanda; and southern Africa, especially South Africa. We pay particular attention to the ways in which colonialism affected ordinary Africans and with the various strategies that Africans employed to resist, subvert, and accommodate European domination.
HIAF 202 is an introductory course and assumes no prior knowledge of African history. There will be two blue book exams, a mid-term and a final, and periodic quizzes on the readings.

HIAF 389 – Africa and World History

Instructor: Joseph Miller

930-1045 TR

WIL 216

HIAF 389 explores “world history” from the perspective of Africa, for advanced undergraduates.
The Department of History at the University of Virginia has offered courses placing Africa in broader “Atlantic” frameworks, mostly in the modern era but ha not routinely considered Africa’s place in the long-term history of the human race – even though genetic and other evidence establishes that all modern humans descended from ancestors living in Africa. Conversely, “world history”, a very recent addition to the UVa history curriculum, characteristically finds only the most marginal of roles for Africa – mostly as a continent victimized and colonized by others, Muslims and modern Europeans. Hegel, philosopher of the modern discipline of history, specifically excluded Africa from his schema of universal history as the continent lacking.
HIAF 389 tackles all these challenges: (1) to historicize an African past (all 50,000 years of it) still commonly seen in static, quasi-ethnographic terms; (2) to place this narrative of challenges and changes in the broader story of human history throughout the world; and (3) to look afresh at the familiar narrative of world “civilizations” in terms derived from African perspectives, strategies, and experiences. If you want to think again about what you thought you knew, about any part of the world (including the modern US), this should be the course for you. I hope to leave no one in the room unchallenged.
HIAF 389 will provide the usual narrative framework of Africa’s past through reading a current text (John Reader, Africa: A Biography) but will develop significantly different interpretive emphases; the critical contrast will reveal the assumptions underlying the way that historians think – or should think, since so few of them actually do. We will also read a world-history text (Armesto, The World: A History) and attempt to bring the two approaches together with the argument to be developed in the course. We will also read more technical articles on concepts and processes integral to understanding Africa and history. You need not have taken either HIAF 201 or 202 (Introductions to early and modern Africa), but if you have not you will need to take responsibility for grasping the basic narrative from which the course will build.
Students will write short analytical “take-home points” at the end of every class. Frequent, short map quizzes will encourage useful awareness of the geographical contexts of all human history. Written requirements will include periodic short “position papers” reflecting on the course content as it develops. There will be no in-class examinations. The final exercise will be a take-home essay responding to a single question: “How do you now, having spent a semester looking at global history in the context of Africa’s past, and vice versa, see the similarities and the differences between Africans’ experiences and those of other people elsewhere around the globe?”
Student writing will be considered intensely and analytically.

HIAF 401A – Africa and the Black Atlantic (3)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

1530-1800 R

CAB 236

This seminar investigates the relationship between Africa and the Atlantic World between the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries. The class begins by undertaking a critical reading of the historiography of the Black Atlantic/African Diaspora (Gilroy, Matory, Mann, among several others), then moving on to analyze contemporaneous accounts by Africans, including Equiano. Key issues that will be treated are the circulation of ideas in the Atlantic through the rise of the Afro-Brazilian religion, Candomblé, the conceptualization of slavery and the Atlantic world by Africans, as well as both failed and successful reverse migration movements. Students will write a research paper based on the accounts analyzed in class.
(Cross-listed as AAS 402)

HIAF 404 – Independent Study in African History (1-3)

Topic to be determined by instructor and student

In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings. Independent Study projects may not be used to replace regularly scheduled classes. Enrollment is open to majors or non-majors.

HILA 307 – History of Brazil (3)

Instructor: Roquinaldo Ferreira

12:30-1:45 TR

CAB 337

This class surveys the History of Brazil from early Portuguese colonization in the sixteenth century to Brazilian Independence in 1822. It places the onset of the colonization of Brazil against the backdrop of the broader Portuguese empire between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. It devotes significant attention to the establishment and growth of indigenous slavery and the transition to African slavery, dwelling on the intellectual and religious debates that the establishment of slavery brought about in the colony and the metropolis. It analyzes the social, political, cultural, and religious underpinnings of colonial Brazil by seeking to integrate Brazilian history into the broader Atlantic World, primarily Africa and the Spanish colonies in the Americas. In addition to lectures and discussions, several movies on colonial Brazil will be shown.
(This course is cross-listed with AAS 307)

HILA 402A: Globalization in Latin American (4)

Instructor: Brian Owensby

R 13:00-15:30

PV8 108

In this advanced undergraduate colloquium we will explore the idea of “globalization” from the perspective of Latin America’s 500-year history of engagement with global phenomena. While globalization has become a buzzword in recent years, it has a long history in Latin America, from Spain’s 16th-century “conquest” of indigenous America, to the slave trade to places such as Brazil and Cuba, to the trans-Atlantic intellectual exchanges of the late 18th century, to the effects on Indian villages as Latin American countries began to participate in the international economy as providers of raw materials and commodities in the 19th century, to the rebellion of the Zapatistas in southern Mexico in the 1990s against NAFTA. Through a wide variety of texts and films we will seek a critical perspective on globalization as a broad historical process that must be understood in relation to local histories and happenings. The course will satisfy the second writing requirement. Enrollment will be limited to 12.

HILA 402B: Latin American In Quest of Identity (4)

Instructor: Herbert Braun

T 13:000-15:30

PV8 103

In Latin America the search for identity has been a plural endeavor. Latin Americans have asked, “Who are we? Rarely have they asked, “Who am I? “Who are we? What kind of a people are we? What kind of a civilization? What is our destiny? What are the causes of our backwardness? What lies in our future? These thoughts run through the writings of almost all of Latin America’s great thinkers.
The course will be divided into two parts: In the first eight weeks we will read together from the writings of some of those great thinkers, including Bolívar, Sarmiento, Andrés Bello, José María Luis Mora, Lucas Alamán, Alcides Arguedas, Francisco Bulnes, José Ingenieros, José Enrique Rodó, José Martí, José Carlos Mariátegui, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Edmundo O’Gorman, Leopoldo Zea, Octavio Paz.
Students in this course will write a final interpretive essay on this quest for identity based on our readings of historical and contemporary writers. This essay will be between twenty and thirty pages in length.

HILA 404: Independent Study in Latin American History (1-3)

In exceptional circumstances and with the permission of a faculty member, any student may undertake a rigorous program of independent study designed to explore a subject not currently being taught or to expand upon regular offerings.

HIST 213 – World History of Slavery

Instructor: Joseph Miller

1900-2130 M

PAV 8, 108

HIST 213 takes a seemingly well-known subject – slavery – and considers the many academic disciplines through which scholars, and others, have approached this ubiquitous human condition. There are many ways to write about the past beyond history itself. Considering these varying perspectives on a seemingly single topic will allow students to enrich their understandings of a subject of continuing and often emotional interest, while also giving Second-Years substantial and considered insight into the epistemologies underlying their options in the University’s departments of anthropology, arts, economics, history, literature(s), political economy, psychology, and sociology – among others – as they face the College requirement to select (and declare) their major subjects.
Although most Americans, when they hear the word “slavery”, think only of cotton fields in antebellum Mississippi, slaving has been a recurrently prominent feature of human history for thousands of years, in every part of the world, and in many different forms, few of them remotely like the Mississippi Delta in the 1840s. The course secondarily sketches the outline of this long, varied, and not always tragic history.
Slavery is also a subject of ongoing, very contemporary, often emotional political concern. The “hot-button” quality of the subject, and its frequent confusion with race and even with gender, make it difficult to discuss intelligently (as distinct from passionately). All the greater the need, then, to develop a clear-headed sense of how one thinks about it in alternative ways.
The instructor is a historian with broad familiarity with other academic disciplines and substantial experience studying slavery, world-wide. The course will feature readings representative of the various approaches to several instances of slavery. Class sessions will center on discussion of the issues they raise. We will begin with a seemingly innocuous sketch of the history of the “institution” and consider the implications both of what the author has written and also – and more importantly – how the author has written it. In succeeding weeks, we will read and critically analyse works written from other disciplinary perspectives, not so much to fill out the narrative of slavery in world history as to understand the implications of writing as – for example – an economist, as distinct from as a literary critic, as distinct from as a historian.
Course requirements will center on short, weekly position papers focused on assessing the works read and considering the epistemological implications of each. In lieu of a final examination, students will submit a slightly longer essay assessing the strengths (and limitations) of one of the disciplines considered during the term. All student writing will be considered intensely and analytically, based on a set of “writing tips” focused on clarity and coherence of argumentation. Final grades will reflect students’ “highest consistent performance”; no mechanical formula will apply.

HIUS 100A – Family and Community in African-American History

Instructors: Reginald Butler and Scot French

1300-1530 T

WIL 141A

This seminar will explore the theme of family and community in African American history, from the Colonial period through the early Civil Rights era. We will devote a portion of each class to a close examination of primary sources and a critical reading of secondary sources, including film. Grades will be based on 6-7 short research/writing assignments and a final presentation. Readings may include selections from Michael P. Johnson and James L. Rourk, Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South; Herbert Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925; Brenda Stevenson, Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South; Joshua D. Rothman, Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861; Anthony E. Kaye, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South; Dylan Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth Century South; Tera Hunter, 'To Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War; Steven Hahn, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration; and Michele Mitchell, Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction. This course meets the second writing requirement.

HIUS 221 – Gender and Race in US History

Instructor: Cori Field

1100-1215

CAU 112

This course will introduce students to the history of gender and race in the United States. We will seek to answer the following questions: What does it mean to treat gender and race as historically constructed categories? What is the difference between gender history and women's history, between the history of race and the history of racial groups? How does the study of gender and race change the narrative of U.S. history? How does it change our understanding of contemporary issues and problems?
We will focus on three key moments when gender and race proved particularly salient: the establishment of slavery in the colonial South and Puritanism in colonial New England; industrialization and the expansion of white manhood suffrage in the antebellum era; the creation of an American empire and Jim Crow segregation at the turn of the twentieth century.
The readings will be drawn from critical theory, historical monographs, and primary documents. Assignments will include selections from: Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History; Denise Riley, Am I That Name?; Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs; Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers; David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness; Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work; Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract; Barbara Welke, Recasting Liberty; Allison Sneider, Suffragists in an Imperial Age; Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues; Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization; and Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow.
Lectures will provide historical context, but the majority of class-time will be spent discussing the readings. Course requirements will include active participation in class discussion, weekly written responses to the reading, two five page papers, and a take-home final exam. Readings will average 75 pages per week. There are no prerequisites for taking this class.
(Cross-listed with SWAG 220)

HIUS 316: Viewing America 1945 to the Present (3)

Instructor: Brian Balogh

MW 10:00 – 10:50

WIL 402

This course will examine how Americans experienced some of the major events that shaped their lives. We will view what millions of Americans did by watching feature films, news reels, and footage from popular television shows and news broadcasts. We will also read primary and secondary texts that explore among other topics, the domestic impact of World War II, America's reaction to the atomic bomb, the rise of the military-industrial-university complex, the emergence of the Cold War, the culture of anxiety that accompanied it, suburbanization, the "New Class" of experts, the Civil Rights movement, changing gender roles in the work place and at home, the origins and implications of community action and affirmative action, the War in Vietnam, the Great Society, the counterculture, Watergate, the environmental movement, challenges to the authority of expertise, the decline of political parties, structural changes in the economy, the mobilization of interest groups from labor to religious organizations, the emergence of the New Right, the challenge to big government, the end of the Cold war, and the role of the electronic media in politics.

HIUS 324 – The South in the Twentieth Century

Instructor: Grace Hale

1400-1450 MW

WIL 301

This course examines the broad history of the American South in the twentieth century, with special emphasis on racial violence, the creation of segregation, class and gender relations within the region, the cultural and economic interdependence of black and white southerners, and the Civil Right Movement and its aftermath. Sources examined will include film, fiction, and music as well as more traditional historical sources like newspapers and court opinions. Students interested in American Studies, African American Studies, and Gender Studies are also welcome.
Grading: midterm 25%; paper (5-7 pp) 25%; final exam 30%; participation in discussion sections and attendance at film and documentary screenings 20%

HIUS 366 – African-American History from the Civil War to the Present

Instructor: Reginald Butler

1300-1350 MWF

WIL 216

This lecture course explores the history and culture of African Americans in the United States. We will examine some of the major themes, problems, events, structures, and personalities, paying particular attention to how African Americans themselves shaped their experiences. We will devote some portion of each class to the close examination of primary sources, with a particular focus on the historical implications for contemporary African American lived experiences. Course requirements include written weekly reading responses, a short paper, midterm, and final.

HIUS 367 – History of the Civil Rights Movement

Instructor: Julian Bond

1530-1730 T

WIL 403

This lecture course examines the history, philosophies, tactics, events and personalities of the Southern movement for civil rights from 1900 through the late 1960s, with special concentration on the years from the mid-'40s forward.
The Southern movement - variously called the black struggle, the freedom fight, or the civil rights movement - was a black-lead, interracial mass movement which effectively ended legal segregation by the mid-60s.
Lectures will outline the movement's three over-lapping and occasionally complimentary phases - lobbying, litigation and protest.
In the first phase, from 1910 to the middle '30s, it developed a campaign of propaganda, education and lobbying to shape public opinion and create a climate favorable to civil rights.
In phase 2, from the '30s to the '50s, it sought and won important test cases in housing segregation and the right to vote, and attacking separate and unequal schools.
The last phase, lasting a decade from '54 through '65, was a decade of protests - boycotts, sit-ins, and mass demonstrations - as well as grass-roots organizing campaigns that laid the groundwork for minority electoral victories in the late '60s and '70s.
Through the leadership of various national and local organizations, and through anti-segregation campaigns directed by indigenous and extra-communal leadership figures who built on extensive pre-existing networks of church, fraternal, social and labor organizations, drawing strength and followers from a protest community rooted in black America and created in response to white supremacy, the movement succeeded in eliminating legal segregation. The movement's well-known and lesser-known proponents and their strategies will be examined.
Grades will be determined from a final examination, student participation in sections, and two five- to seven-page papers.

Texts:
• Wilkins, Roy, with Tom Matthews, Standing Fast, Da Capo Press
• Forman James, The Making of Black Revolutionaries, University of Washington Press
• Bond, Julian and Andrew Lewis, Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table, Thompson Learning
Videos:
• "Eyes on the Prize - America's Civil Rights Years, 1954 - 1965", # 1 to 6
• "America the at the Racial Crossroads, 1965 - 1985," # 1 and 2; PBS Video, Blackside Inc., Boston
• "The Road to Brown," William Elwood, Producer, California Newsreel

HIUS 401H – History Seminar:

Reconstructing the South, 1862-1877 (4)

1530-1800 W

RFN 227B

Instructor: Keith Harris

This course is a seminar in which students will analyze political and social issues in the southern United States beginning with the period of wartime reconstruction through the so-called Compromise of 1877. We will primarily examine how Reconstruction politics overlapped with individuals’ public and private lives and investigate how people negotiated and shaped political and personal relationships in an era of uncertainty. Students will analyze several works of scholarship as well as produce an original research paper of substantial length.

HIUS 403B– African American Culture to 1865

1300-1530 T

CAB 241

Instructor: Reginald D. Butler

This course will examine how African American cultures and societies developed in the north and south. How did forcibly transported Africans respond to the different agricultural economies, the conditions of enslavement, and European and native American cultures that they encountered during the colonial period? The course will begin in the early period during which large numbers of Africans arrived in British North America. It will then shift its focus to mature African American communities in which the vast majority of persons were American born. We will examine issues of African ethnicity and geography; family and kinship; religious practice; and diverse forms of aesthetic expression. Readings may include selections from: Johannes M. Postma, The Atlantic Slave Trade; Sidney W. Mintz and Richard Price, The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective; Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves; W. Jeffrey Bolster, Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail; Leon F. Litwack, North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860; Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market; and Dylan Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South.

 

Department of Music

MUEN 369 African Drumming and Dance Ensemble (2)

1715-1915 TR

OCH 107

Instructor: Michelle Kisliuk

This is a practical, hands-on course focusing on several music/dance forms from West Africa (Ghana, Togo) and Central Africa (BaAka pygmies, Bagandou farmers), with the intention of performing during and at the end of the semester. These traditions include drumming, dancing, and singing, all students are expected to try all aspects, even if they then specialize only in a given medium for performance. We will give special attention to developing tight ensemble dynamics, aural musicianship, and a polymetric sensibility. Concentration, practice, and faithful attendance are required of each class member. No experience is required, but there is an informal audition (first class meeting) prior to final enrollment.

MUSI 207 - Roots Music in America (3)

Instructor: Richard Will

MW 11:00 – 11:50

WIL 301

According to mainstream media, "roots music" like gospel, blues, country, folk, and bluegrass nourishes more popular genres such as rock and hip-hop, while also expressing the emotional and social concerns of (mainly) rural African-American and White American communities. We will examine both claims by studying the origins and development of roots genres and the way they are depicted in films, criticism, politics, and elsewhere.

MUSI 208 - African American Gospel Music (3)

Instructor: Melvin Butler

13-13:50 MW

MIN 125

No description available.

MUSI 309 Performance in Africa (4)

Instructor: Michelle Kisuluk

1545-1700 TR

OCH 107

This course explores performance in Africa through reading, discussion, audio and video examples, and hands-on practice. The course meets with Music 369 (African Drumming and Dance Ensemble) as a "lab", but is a full academic course.* Students in Music 309 are automatically part of the current semester's UVA African Drumming and Dance Ensemble (by audition). Your role in the Ensemble as learner and performer is crucial to your overall work in the course (also see description for Music 369). We will explore African music/dance styles, their sociomusical circumstances and processes, as well as performed resistances and responses to the colonial and post/neo-colonial encounter. In addition, we will address the politics and processes involved in translating performance practices from one cultural context to another. Readings, discussions, and written work will focus heavily on topics and issues related to the main music/dance traditions that we are learning to perform this semester. The course will explore both "traditional" and "popular" styles, leading us to question those categories.

MUSI 426 – Music and Religious Experience in the U.S.

Instructor: Melvin Butler

1530-1645

OCH 107

MUSI426 is primarily a reading seminar in which we will explore the role of musical practice in religious communities in the United States. We will highlight the complex relation between musical style and transcendent experience, while paying special attention to the ways in which the "religious" and the "secular" are musically and socially constructed in American society. Jon Michael Spencer’s work on theomusicology will be a significant resource, along with books and articles by Judith Becker, Philip Bohlman, Horace Boyer, Guthrie Ramsey, Teresa Reed, Jeffery Summit, and other ethnomusicologists. Audio and video recordings, in addition to selected assigned readings, will fuel our class discussions. Throughout the semester, students will develop final projects built around ethnographic field research.
*Course satisifes Second Writing Requirement.

 

Department of Politics

PLAP 382: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (3)

Instructor: David Klein

MW 13:00 – 13:50

WIL 301

Studies judicial construction and interpretation of civil rights and liberties reflected by Supreme Court decisions. Includes line-drawing between rights and obligations.

PLAP 481: Class, Race and the Environment (3)

Instructor: Paul Martin

1530-1800 W

CAB 123

Course description unavailable

PLCP 581: Government and Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa (3)

Instructor: Robert Fatton

M 13:00 – 15:30

CAB 236

Studies the government and politics of sub-Saharan Africa. Includes the colonial experience and the rise of African nationalism; the transition to independence; the rise and fall of African one-party states; the role of the military in African politics; the politics of ethnicity, nation- and state-building; patromonialism and patron-client relations; development problems faced by African regimes, including relations with external actors; and the political future of Southern Africa.

PLIR 325 – International Relations of Africa (3)

1530-1800 W

CAB 340

Instructor: TBA

Course description unavailable

 

Department of Psychology

PSYC 487 – Minority Family

9-11:30 M

GIL B001

Instructor: Melvin Wilson

Examines the current state of research on minority families, focusing on the black family. Emphasizes comparing “deficit” and “strength” research paradigms.

 

Department of Religious Studies

RELA 285 Afro-Creole Religions (3)

1530-1645 TR

GIL 141

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

Course description unavailable

RELA 300 Women and Religion in Africa (3)

1530-1800 W

MRY 110

Instructor: Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton

This course examines women’s religious activities, traditions and spirituality in a number of different African contexts. Drawing on ethnographic, historical, literary, and religious studies scholarship, we will explore a variety of themes and debates that have emerged in the study of gender and religion in Africa. Topics will include gendered images of sacred power; the construction of gender through ritual; sexuality and fertility; and women’s agency in indigenous religious movements, Christian congregations and Muslim communities in Africa. Requirements: 1) active class participation; 2) several short written assignments; 3) two exams.

RELG 285 African Diaspora Religions (3)

930-1045 TR

HAL 123

Instructor: Jalane Schmidt

The seminar will feature close readings of ethnographic literature about African diaspora religions, and require students to write a seminar-length final paper. Often deemed emblematic of these groups' ethnic identities, the religious practices of African-descended populations in Latin America and the Caribbean are a frequent site of inquiry for cultural anthropologists. We will examine the often-polemical "African retention" vs. "creolization" debate as this relates to changing theoretical paradigms in anthropology and to African-descended populations' shifting political fortunes, activism, and cultural cachet. We will attend to changing conceptions of "race," "religion," and "nation" in the treatment of these religions by legal institutions, as well as how officials from the tourism industry and government ministries have influenced processes of "folkloricization."

RELC 523 Pentecostalism (3)

1530-1800 R

PV8 108

Instructor: Valerie Cooper

This course will study the history, practices, theology, and praxis of Pentecostalism, the fastest growing Christian movement in the world, from its origins among poor whites and recently freed African Americans to its phenomenal expansion in places like South America, Asia and Africa. The course will explore Pentecostalism’s theological and historical relationship to the Holiness, Apostolic, and Charismatic movements, as well as Pentecostal belief in phenomena like speaking in tongues, healing, miracles, and prophecy. Finally, the course will use race, class, and gender analysis to evaluate the cultural influences of Pentecostalism in the US and elsewhere in the world.

 

Department of Sociology

SOC 341 – Race and Ethnic Relations (3)

MW 1400-1515

CAB 341

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

Introduces the study of race and ethnic relations, including the social and economic conditions promoting prejudice, racism, discrimination, and segregation. Examines contemporary American conditions, and historical and international materials

SOC 442 – Sociology of Inequality (3)

MW 1600-1715

COC 115

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

Surveys basic theories and methods used to analyze structures of social inequality. Includes comparative analysis of the inequalities of power and privilege, and their causes and consequences for social conflict and social change.

 

Studies in Women and Gender

SWAG 220 – Gender and Race in US History

Instructor: Cori Field

1100-1215

CAU 112

This course will introduce students to the history of gender and race in the United States. We will seek to answer the following questions: What does it mean to treat gender and race as historically constructed categories? What is the difference between gender history and women's history, between the history of race and the history of racial groups? How does the study of gender and race change the narrative of U.S. history? How does it change our understanding of contemporary issues and problems?
We will focus on three key moments when gender and race proved particularly salient: the establishment of slavery in the colonial South and Puritanism in colonial New England; industrialization and the expansion of white manhood suffrage in the antebellum era; the creation of an American empire and Jim Crow segregation at the turn of the twentieth century.
The readings will be drawn from critical theory, historical monographs, and primary documents. Assignments will include selections from: Joan Wallach Scott, Gender and the Politics of History; Denise Riley, Am I That Name?; Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs; Mary Beth Norton, Founding Mothers and Fathers; David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness; Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work; Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract; Barbara Welke, Recasting Liberty; Allison Sneider, Suffragists in an Imperial Age; Matthew Frye Jacobson, Barbarian Virtues; Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization; and Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow.
Lectures will provide historical context, but the majority of class-time will be spent discussing the readings. Course requirements will include active participation in class discussion, weekly written responses to the reading, two five page papers, and a take-home final exam. Readings will average 75 pages per week. There are no prerequisites for taking this class.
(Cross-listed with HIUS 221)

SWAG 222 – Political History of Housework

Instructor: Vanessa May

10:00-11:15 T R

WIL 140

Does housework have a history? What is that history and how has it shaped women’s role in American politics and society? Does housework count as “work” equal to the paid labor performed by men? What about the housework performed by paid domestics, often women of color? Is housework a political issue? Women have been the designated caretakers, paid and unpaid, of American homes and families for generations. The role of homemaker has also been central to women’s political identities from Hillary Clinton’s infamous statement that she would not stay “home and bake cookies” to Phyllis Schlafly’s carefully crafted image as just another homemaker. This course will trace the history of housework in the home, economy, culture, and politics of America. We will look at how housework has changed over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, how women have used the role of homemaker to gain entry to American politics, and the lives and choices of the immigrants and women of color who performed paid housework for middle-class and wealthy families. Finally, students will look at the political challenge that housework still presents today, from the poor working conditions of the often undocumented immigrants who perform our paid domestic labor to the “second shift” worked daily by women who work outside the home to the current cultural debate about whether middle-class mothers should stay home with their children or go to work.

 

Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese

POTR 427 - Afro-Brazilian Civilization (3)

Instructor: David Haberly

MWF 11:00 – 11:50

CAB 134

A general introduction, in English, to the literature and culture of Brazil from 1500 to the present, with special emphasis upon the role of Afro-Brazilians in the creation of that literature and culture. No knowledge of Portuguese is required, and lectures and readings will be in English. The course includes discussions of the nation's social and historical development, but these topics will be presented through readings in the major works of Brazilian literature, including the works of important Afro-Brazilian authors.