Department of History



Race and Ethnicity in the Americas 512-524, Fall 2013Tuesdays 5-7:40429 Cooper Street, seminar roomDr. Lorrin Thomas429 Cooper Street856-225-2656lthomas2@camden.rutgers.eduoffice hours: Mondays 10:30-12:30, Thursdays 12:30-1:30; by appt.This course takes a comparative approach to examining the complex history of racial and ethnic difference in the Americas, from the sixteenth through the twenty-first century. Focusing on academic interpretations of race and ethnicity as well as some primary-source texts – so that we experience the language, imagery, and animating questions surrounding race and difference across different eras and regions – we will explore the following themes and problems: ? How “race” and “ethnicity” have operated as social categories throughout the history of the Americas? How hierarchies of race and ethnicity have shaped historical and political outcomes across the Americas? How constructions and descriptions of physiological and cultural difference around the Americas have changed over time? How the experiences of difference defined by physical and cultural markers of descent (“color” and “race,” i.e.) have varied across time, place, and group in the history of the AmericasCourse Requirements:1. Each class meeting: You must answer a series of short questions about each of the readings assigned for that day. [For list of questions, see appendix A of the syllabus.]In preparation for class during the weeks for which you don’t write a reflection paper (see #2 below), write four discussion questions and email them to me by 8 p.m. on Monday night. [For guidelines to writing discussion questions, see Appendix B of the syllabus.]Participation, including discussion questions: 35%2. FOUR 3-page reflection papers, based on weekly readings of your choosing. 25%3. Final paper: Choose one of the major topics of the course and, from that set of issues, frame a question/argument that you will explore in 15 pages. This should involve a review of readings from two or three weeks’ readings, plus at least three additional articles or one scholarly book on a relevant subject. A one-page proposal plus bibliography is due in class on October 22. Preliminary writing (due Oct. 22 & Nov. 19 ); 15 page paper (due Dec. 17) 40%Readings:The following books are available at the University District Bookstore, 601 Cooper Street. Readings marked “CR” on the syllabus are excerpts or articles collected into a course reader that is on “electronic reserve” at the Robeson Library website, via IRIS (follow link to “Reserves” on the IRIS main page; search for my name under “Instructor” and you’ll get to the list of articles that you can download.)Ira Berlin Generations of Captivity (2003)W.E.B. DuBoisThe Souls of Black Folk (1903)Laura GomezManifest Destinies (2007)Richard Graham, ed.The Idea of Race in Latin America (1990)Patricia LimerickThe Legacy of Conquest (1987)Nell Irvin Painter The History of White People (2010)Laura Putnam Radical Moves (2013)Peter WadeRace and Ethnicity in Latin America (1997)C Vann Woodward The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955)_________________________________Week 1 Sept. 3IntroductionsWeek 2Sept. 10Race and Ethnicity, Identity and DefinitionNash, “The Hidden History of Mestizo America” CRFields, “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America” CRWagley, “On the Concept of Social Race in the Americas” CRBurns, “Unfixing Race” CRWade, ch. 1, “The Meaning of ‘Race’ and ‘Ethnicity’” Week 3Sept. 17“Black” and “Indian” in Latin America: an OverviewWade, chapters 2-5 in Race and Ethnicity in Latin America Chambers, “Little Middle Ground: The Instability of a Mestizo Identity in the Andes, 18th and19th Centuries” in Appelbaum, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America CRCahill, “Colour by Numbers: Racial and Ethnic Categories in the Viceroyalty of Peru,1532-1824” CRWeek 4Sept. 24Native Peoples and the United StatesLimerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West [Focus on the second part, chs. 6-8 and 10. Read the Introduction carefully and skim Part I so that you understand why the book is structured the way it is, and what the author is trying to do with the book as a whole.]Shoemaker, “How Indians Got to be Red,” AHR 102 (June 1997): 625-644 CRVaughn, “From White Man to Redskin,” AHR 87 (Oct. 1982): 917-953 CR [optional]Week 5 Oct. 1Enslaved People in the United StatesBerlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African American SlavesWeek 6 Oct. 8The Long Shadow of Slavery in Latin AmericaGarrigus, “Saint Domingue’s Free People of Color and the Tools of Revolution” in TheWorld of the Haitian Revolution CRGraham, ed., The Idea of Race in Latin America: Introduction; Skidmore, ch. 2; Helg,ch.3Guerra, ch. 5 “From Revolution to Involution in the Early Cuban Republic” in Appelbaum, et al,Race and Nation in Modern Latin America CRde la Fuente, “Myths of Racial Democracy: Cuba, 1900-1912,” LARR 34 (1999): 39-73 CRJiménez Román, “Un Hombre (Negro) del Pueblo: José Celso Barbosa and thePuerto Rican‘Race’ Toward Whiteness,” CENTRO Journal 8 (1996): 9-29 CRWeek 7Oct. 15“Whiteness” in the United StatesPainter, A History of White People [skim chapters 1-7: know what’s in them, but don’t focus on this part]Kolchin, “Whiteness Studies: The New History of Race in America” JAH 89 (June 2002):154-173 CRRoediger, “On Autobiography and Theory,” “The Prehistory of the White Worker,” and“‘Neither a Servant nor a Master am I’” in The Wages of Whiteness CR [optional]Week 8Oct. 22From Slavery to Segregation in the U.S.Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim CrowDue today: one-page proposal plus bibliography Week 9Oct. 29U.S. Racism and the New U.S. EmpireDuBois, The Souls of Black Folk Rogers, “DuBois, Garvey, and Pan-African,” The Journal of Negro History 2 (April 1955):154-165 CRReed, “W.E.B. DuBois: A Perspective on the Bases of his Political Thought,” PoliticalTheory 13 (Aug. 1985): 431-456 CR [optional]Week 10 Nov. 5Manifest Destinies and the Borderlands Gomez, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American RaceCalderón-Zaks, “Debated Whiteness amid World Events: Mexican and Mexican AmericanSubjectivity and the U.S. Relationship with the Americas, 1924-1936” in MexicanStudies 2011 CRWeek 11Nov. 12Race, Nationalism, and Mestizaje in Latin AmericaVasconcelos, The Cosmic Race, excerpt CR Knight, “Racism, Revolution, and Indigenismo in Mexico, 1910-1940” in Graham, ed., The Ideaof Race in Latin AmericaMiller, ch. 1 “Vasconcelos’s About-Face on the Cosmic Race” CR Stern, ch. 7 “From Mestizophilia to Biotypology: Racialization and Science in Mexico,1920-1960” in Appelbaum, et al, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America CRWeinstein, ch. 9 “Racializing Regional Difference: Sao Paulo versus Brazil, 1932” inAppelbaum, et al, Race and Nation in Modern Latin America CRFreyre, Preface; “The Native…”; and “The Negro Slave…” in The Masters and the Slaves CRChevalier, “Official Indigenismo in Peru in 1920,” in M?rner, Race and Class in L.A.CRWeek 12Nov. 19Transnational Blackness in the Age of U.S. Empire Putnam, Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz AgeThomas, “Resisting the Racial Binary? Puerto Ricans’ Encounter with Race inDepression-EraNew York City,” CENTRO Journal 21 (spring 2009): 5-35 CRDue today: three page review of additional source(s) for final paperWeek 13Nov. 26NO CLASS --THANKSGIVING Week 14 Dec. 3The Long Era of Civil Rights Struggles in the U.S. Myrdal, Intro and ch. 1, “American Ideals,” ch. 2 “Encountering the Negro Problem,”and ch. 4“Racial Beliefs” in An American Dilemma CRS.R.G., “Preface to the Issue ‘An American Dilemma Revisited’” Daedalus 124 (Winter1995): V-XXXIV CRKelley, “We Are Not What We Seem: Rethinking Black Working-Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South,” JAH 80 (June 1993): 75-112 CRDalfiume, “The Forgotten Years of the Negro Revolution,” Journal of American History 55(June 1968): 90-106 CRJoseph, “Dashikis and Democracy: Black Studies, Student Activism, and the Black PowerMovement” Journal of African American History (2003) CRWeek 15Dec. 10The Problems of Race in the 21st CenturyHolt, The Problem of Race in the 21st Century: ch. 3 “Race, Nation, and the Global Economy”and “Epilogue: The Future of Race” CRHolt, “Explaining Racism in U.S. History” in Imagined Histories CRSugrue, “‘A More Perfect Union’? The Burden of Race in Obama’s America,” Not Even Past CRHaney-López, “Race and Erasure: the Salience of Race to Latinos” CRKim, “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans,” Politics and Society 27 (March1999):105-138 CRWade, ch. 5, “Blacks and Indians in the Postmodern Nation-State” and ch. 6, “Black’ andIndian Social Movements” in Race and Nation in Modern Latin America ................
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