Here are a few things to start. More soon!
This is a very useful guide to reading quickly and productively.
How to Read
Here are the guidelines for the projects and proposals:
You may choose one of these options:
- Historiographic essay (choose 1 week and read three of the recommended readings)—2000 words.
2. Multimedia project with some scholarly content and at least 800 words.
3. Choose one of the primary sources we have read or watched and write a document analysis. What this will include will depend on the source itself. 2000 words.
Expectations:
-critically engage some of the texts, ideas, and concepts we have encountered in readings and discussions.
-identify a problem, conundrum, dilemma, or contradiction that will be fruitful to explore
-articulate and communicate an original, clear point of view/perspective
-express yourself thoughtfully and with an informed level of detail
cite all of your sources as appropriate
For the proposal: (no more than one page)
1. identify your problem/issue/question.
2. briefly explain your method or approach.
3. identify 3 or 4 key sources or texts, with 1-2 sentence annotations.
please email these to me no later than Tuesday, March 14, 9:30am, and I will return them with comments as soon as I can.
These are multimedia resources for the study of slavery:
Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
Recommended Reading: I will update and add to this list frequently during the term. These will be useful to you for your final papers and projects. Also, if you have already read something on the syllabus, you should read one of the recommended readings instead.
Week 2:
Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993) (whole book)
-Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (New York: Norton Press, 2007)
W.E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 (whole book)
Barbara Fields, “Slavery, Race and Ideology in The United States of America” New Left Review, I-181 (May-June, 1990)
http://newleftreview.org/I/181/barbara-jeanne-fields-slavery-race-and-ideology-in-the-united-states-of-america
John Hope Franklin, Reconstruction After the Civil War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Stephen Jay Gould, Mismeasure of Man (New York: Norton, 1996)
Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002)
-Gilroy, Darker Than Blue (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011)
Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (New York: Penguin Books, 2005)
Richard Lewontin, Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA (1996)
Thomas Holt, “Marking: Race, Race-Making, and the Writing of History” American Historical Review 100, no. 1 (1995)
Peter Wade, Race, Nature and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective (New York: Pluto Press, 2002)
C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction: The Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991)
Week 3
Rebecca Earle, Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experiment in Spanish America, 1492-1700 (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Jorge Cañizares Esguerra, Nature, Empire and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006)
–Cañizares Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies and Identities in the Eighteenth Century (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002)
John D. Garrigus and Christopher Morris, eds ; Assumed identities : the meanings of race in the Atlantic world (Arlington: University of Texas Press, 2010)
Robin Law, Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving Port 1727-1892
(Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004).
Toyin Falola and Matt Childs, eds. The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays in Honor of Robin Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2009)
Week 4
Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (2009)
Joan Dayan, Haiti, History and the Gods (1995)
Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2005)
–Slave Revolution in the Caribbean: A Brief History with Documents (2006)
–A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean 1787-1804 (2004)
–Origins of the Black Atlantic (2009)
Sybille Fischer, Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2004)
David Geggus, A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean (2003)
–The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World (2002)
–The World of the Haitian Revolution (2009)
–The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History (2014)
Rebecca Scott and Jean Hebrard, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (2012)
CLR James, The Black Jacobins (1938)
Sarah Johnson, Fear of French Negroes: Transcolonial Collaboration in the Revolutionary Americas (2012)
Nick Nesbitt, Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and Radical Enlightenment (2008)
Jeremy Popkin, You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (2010)
David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (2004)
Ashli White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (2012)
Week 6
Lilia Schwarcz: The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930
Alexander Dawson, Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico
Alejandra Bronfman, Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940
Nancy Stepan, The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender and Nation in Latin America
Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America
Grace Delgado, Making the Chinese-Mexican: Global Migration, Localism and Exclusion in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Week 7
Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color” Stanford Law Review, 1993
Martha Jones: All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture
Benedita da Silva, A Black Woman’s Story of Politics and Love
Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century
Gaiutra Bahadur, Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture
Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Week 12
David V. Trotman, “Transforming Caribbean and Canadian Identity: Contesting Claims for Toronto’s Caribana, Atlantic Studies 2, no. 2 (2005): 177-198 PDF
Himani Bannerji, The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Gender (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000). Choose one chapter. (online UBC library)
Agnes Calliste “Race, Gender and Canadian Immigration Policy: Blacks from the Caribbean, 1900-1932” Journal of Canadian Studies 28, no. 4 [1993/94]: 131-148. PDF
- Edward Greene, “Political Perspectives on the Assimilation of Immigrants: A Case Study of West Indians in Vancouver” Social and Economic Studies vol. 19 no 3 (Sept. 1970): 406-423.
Tina Loo, “Africville and the Dynamics of State Power in Postwar Canada” Acadiensis XXXIX, no. 2 (Summer/Autumn 2010): 23-47.
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