Reading, Discussion, and Assignment Schedule
All readings are available on the course blackboard site. Please PRINT THEM OUT AND BRING THEM TO CLASS. You will not be allowed to use electronic devices during class.
Week One: Introduction: What is the Atlantic World? What are “Intimate Domains?”
Aug. 29: Introductions
Aug. 31: Defining Intimacy Domains in the Atlantic World
NOTE: Prof. Rodriguez and I will co-teach this class during his 9:55 class session. We will not meet for our 2:30-3:45 class session)
Reading: Bernard Bailyn, “The Contours of Atlantic History,” in Atlantic History: Concepts and Contours
Also look at: On the Water: Living in the Atlantic World http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater/exhibition/1_1.html
Assignment: Log on to the class blog and write a short (100 word) post introducing yourself to the class. In your post also say something about how studying history might useful for your future career. Due on Tuesday, August 30th by 11:59 pm.
Part One: Intimate Domains Through Primary Sources
Week Two: Brave New Worlds and First Contacts
Sept. 5: NO CLASS-LABOR DAY
Sept. 7: Love and Conquest in New Spain
Readings: Bernal Diaz del Castillo, “Dona Marina’s Story,” “The Entrance into Mexico,” and “The Stay in Mexico” in The Conquest of New Spain
Codex Mendoza [look at the images here: http://treasures.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/treasures/codex-mendoza/] (You do not need to print this out)
Week Three: The Rise of Atlantic Slavery
Sept. 12: Justifying the Atlantic Slavery
Reading: Michel de Montaigne, “On Cannibals”
Bartolomé de Las Casas, “In Defense of Indians”
Sept. 14: Making Slaves on the African Coast
Reading: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, pp. 46-61
Stephanie Smallwood, “Turning African Captives into Atlantic Commodities” in Saltwater Slavery
Week Four: Creating A New Atlantic (Consumer) Culture
Sept. 19: Colonial Vices and Gender Trouble in Eighteenth Century Europe
Reading: Anonymous, The Character of the Coffee House
Anonymous, “The Women’s Petition Against Coffee”
J.S. Bach, Coffee Cantata
Sept. 21: Colonial Vices, Public Voices, and Enlightened Spheres
Salon Assignment
Readings: See Salon Assignment instructions for reading options
Week Five: Intimacy in an Age of Revolution
Sept. 26: Classifying Intimacy Through Racial Categories
Reading: M.L.E Moreau de Saint-Méry, “The Three Races,” in A Civilization that Perished
Y. Fabella, “A Colony Founded on Libertinage: The Mulatresse and Colonial Anxiety in Saint Domingue”
Images of Agostino Brunias
Sept. 28: Proclaiming Freedom
Reading: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Légér Félicité Sonthonax, “Decree of General Liberty”
Étienne Ploverel, “Plantation Rules”
“The First Days of the Slave Insurrection” in Jeremy Popkin,
Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian
Revolution
Sept. 29: Club Hours: Visit Hamilton Exhibit at New York Public Library
Week Six: Intimate Actions/Freedoms
Oct. 3: NO CLASS
Oct 5: Bodily Comportment and Acting Free
Readings: Dred Scot v. Sandford
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (selection)
Writing Assignment (instructions posted to course blackboard site)
Oct. 6: CLASSES MEET ACCORDING TO MONDAY SCHEDULE.
Reading: TBA
**Watch Jane Eyre** Access is through the course library e-reserve site (http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/er.php?course_id=25860)
The password for the site is: heath1003
Week Seven: Mid-semester Reflections
Oct. 10: NO CLASS
Oct. 12: NO CLASS
**Oct 13: Primary Source Analysis Due**
Oct. 14: FIELD TRIP: Morgan Library Tour at 1:00.
Part Two: Modern Interpretations
Week Eight: Colonial Haunts in Jamaica
Oct. 17: A Jamaican Love Affair?
Readings: K Wilson, “The Black Widow: Gender, Race, and Performance in England and Jamaica,” in The Island Race: Englishness, Empire, and Gender in the Eighteenth Century
Oct. 19: Defining (White) Masculinity in Colonial Jamaica
Reading: T. Burnard, Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America
Week Nine: Colonial Haunts continued
Oct. 24: Masculinity and Intimate Violence
Reading: T. Burnard, Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America
- Burnard, Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
Oct. 26: Death and Power in Jamaica
Reading: V. Brown, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World
of Atlantic Slavery
Oct. 27: FIELD TRIP: African Burial Grounds during Club Hours
Week Ten: US Slavery in History and Memory
Oct 31: Jamaica and Virginia: A Comparison
Readings: R. Dunn, A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia
Nov. 2: Plantation Nostalgia and Narratives of Gentility
Readings: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer’s Project
Additional reading tba
Week Eleven: History and Memory Continued
Nov. 7: Plantation Nostalgia and Narratives of Gentility
Reading: T. Glymph, “Making ‘Better Girls’: Mistresses, Slave Women, and the Claims of Domesticity in Out of the House of Bondage
Nov. 9: Plantation Nostalgia and Narratives of Gentility Reconsidered
Reading: T. Glymph, “‘Nothing but Deception in Them’: The War
Within” in Out of the House of Bondage
Week Twelve: Wondrous Lives and Fantastical Imaginings
Nov. 14: Discussion of Play
Nov. 16: Imperial Fantasies
Readings: L. Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S.
Imperialism
Week Thirteen: Wondrous Lives and Fantastical Imaginings continued
Nov. 21: Imperial Fantasies Contd.
Readings: L. Wexler, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S.
Imperialism
Nov. 23: Colonial Nostalgia
Readings: Renato Rosaldo, “Imperialist Nostalgia” Representations 26 (Spring 1989): 107-122
Week Fourteen
Nov. 28: Individual conferences
Nov. 30: Individual conferences
Week Fifteen
Dec. 5 Presentations
Dec. 7 Presentations