HIUS 401C: Free Blacks in Urban and Rural America, 1776-1865 (4)

Instructor: Reginald Butler

T 13:00 – 15:30

CAB 242

Students in this course will conduct original archival research and write a major paper on the theme of "Free Black Life in Urban and Rural America." Possible research topics include:

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  Education/literacy
  
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  Apprenticeship
  
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  Property ownership
  
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  Geographic mobility/migration
  
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  Free Blacks as slave holders
  
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  The Canadian experience
  
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  Institution-building (churches, schools, voluntary associations, etc.)
  
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  Social/economic relations with "white" patrons
  
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  Political activity
  
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  Family life
  
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  Mob violence and strategies for communal self-defense
  
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  Ideologies of "race" and "color"
  
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  Collective memory
  
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  Social movements (emigration, colonization, abolition, civil rights, suffrage, etc.)
  
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  Occupational status/class stratification within the "free black" caste
  

Instructor: Matthew Speiser

R 15:30-1800

WIL 141A

Class discussions will focus on memory’s role in society, specifically regarding how Americans have remembered Civil War-era historical figures, their ideas, and their actions, as well as the societies, events, and circumstances surrounding them. We will examine how different people can remember the same event in different ways: how history can shift according to the eye of the beholder.

The readings in this class will examine the study of memory, memory’s place in academic as well as popular culture, and conscious attempts to shape American memory, as well as broader manifestations of Civil War memory throughout society, in fiction, film, scholarship, journalism, speechmaking, and other components of American culture. Each week, the reading selections will total between 200 and 300 pages. We will read some work from historians about Civil War memory, such as segments from David Blight’s Race and Reunion. Many of the readings will be primary sources, such as The Frederick Douglass Papers and a handbook celebrating the Civil War centennial in the 1960s. We will also read fictional and personal books like Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels and segments from Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic. Students will expand upon the class’s themes by writing a 25-page research paper grounded in primary documents.

For generations, Americans have debated the social, cultural, and political implications of mass migration from Europe, Africa, and Asia, and Latin America and the resulting ethnic-racial demographies for "our" national identity. In this seminar, students will combine traditional archival research with new technologies to explore the impact of African and African-American migration and settlement patterns on American culture and society.  We will examine major themes and key episodes from each era of American history -- Colonial, Revolutionary, Early National, Antebellum, Civil War/Reconstruction, Jim Crow/Civil Rights - in preparation for our own, broadly collaborative digital history research projects. Students will be introduced to seminal texts, archival collections at U.Va., as well as relevant digital resources, including the Transatlantic Slaving Database; Virtual Jamestown; Virginia Runaways; Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the Civil War; American Memory; Historical Census Data Browser; Civil War Newspapers; and  Race and Place.  Students will be graded on the following basis: 50 % on the web-based exhibit that their team constructs; 25 % on an online journal chronicling the student's experience with creating digital history; 25 % on individual participation and work in the course. Each team will present a demonstration of its project in the last week of the course.

Instructor: Scot French

W 15:30-18:00

Ruffner 227B

For generations, Americans have debated the social, cultural, and political implications of mass migration from Europe, Africa, and Asia, and Latin America and the resulting ethnic-racial demographies for "our" national identity. In this seminar, students will combine traditional archival research with new technologies to explore the impact of African and African-American migration and settlement patterns on American culture and society.  We will examine major themes and key episodes from each era of American history -- Colonial, Revolutionary, Early National, Antebellum, Civil War/Reconstruction, Jim Crow/Civil Rights -- in preparation for our own, broadly collaborative digital history research projects. Students will be introduced to seminal texts, archival collections at U.Va., as well as relevant digital resources, including the Transatlantic Slaving Database; Virtual Jamestown; Virginia Runaways; Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the Civil War; American Memory; Historical Census Data Browser; Civil War Newspapers; and  Race and Place.  Students will be graded on the following basis: 50 % on the web-based exhibit that their team constructs; 25 % on an online journal chronicling the student's experience with creating digital history; 25 % on individual participation and work in the course. Each team will present a demonstration of its project in the last week of the course.

HIUS 401F: The Law and Politics of Slavery in the Early Republic (4)

Instructor: George Van Cleve

R 15:30-18:00

CAB 331

Preliminary readings may include portions of the following:  Robert William Fogel, Without Consent or Contract:  The Rise and Fall of American Slavery; Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619-1877; Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone:  The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America; Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Slaveholding Republic (ed. and completed by Ward McAfee); Paul Finkelman, “Slavery and the Constitutional Convention:  Making a Covenant with Death,” in Richard Beeman, Stephen Botein, and Edward C. Carter II, eds., Beyond Confederation); Peter S. Onuf, Jefferson’s Empire:  The Language of American Nationhood; Arthur Zilversmit, The First Emancipation; Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860; Leonard L. Richards, The Slave Power; Philip D. Morgan, “Black Society in the Lowcountry, 1760-1810,” in Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman, eds. Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution; Allan Kulikoff, “Uprooted Peoples:  Black Migrants in the Age of the American Revolution, 1790-1820” in ibid.; Douglas R. Egerton, “Gabriel’s Conspiracy and the Election of 1800”; U.S. House of Representatives, Annals of Congress, 1^st Cong. (February-March 1790); Philip D. Morgan, “The Poor: Slaves in Early America,” in David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff eds., Slavery in the Development of the Americas.

Instructor: Amanda Mushal

M13:00-15:30

RFN 227B

This seminar is designed to introduce students to major issues in antebellum southern urban history, as well as to the resources available to scholars in this field.  During the first part of the course, we will meet weekly to discuss assigned readings.  Texts will include selections from Gregg Kimball, American City, Southern Place:  A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond, Edward D.C. Campbell, Jr., and Kym S. Rice, eds., African-American Life in the Antebellum South, Lisa Tolbert, Constructing Townscapes:  Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee, and William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease, The Web of Progress:  Private Values and Public Styles in Boston and Charleston, 1828-1843, as well as other essays and journal articles.  We will consider key issues raised by the authors as well as their use of historical evidence. We will also examine antebellum newspaper articles, public records, and other primary documents which students may wish to engage in their research projects.

Instructor: Claudrena Harold

T 15:30-18:00

CAB 236
This course is cross-listed as AAS 406C. See the description in the AAS section, above.

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.

Instructor: Melvin Butler

MW 12-12:50

MIN 125

Instructor: Lynn Sanders

TR 11:00 – 11:50

PHS 204
Examines how attributions of racial difference have shaped American Politics. Topics include how race affects American political partisanship, campaigns and elections, public policy, public opinion, and American political science. Prerequisite: One course in PLAP or instructor permission.

Instructor: David Obrien

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.

Instructor: Robert Fatton

M 13:00 – 15:30

CAB 318
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.

Instructor: Andrew Lawrence

R 15:30-18:00

CAB 316
No description available.

Instructor: Njoki Osotsi

TR 14:00- 15:15

HAL 123
The class is a survey of African traditional religions with special emphasis on ritual. The central goal of the course is to introduce the students to a wide variety of religious practices in Africa, both indigenous and foreign. The class will study the African traditional approach to the sacred in the traditional and mainstream religions. A range of religious and ritual performances, including initiations and healing rituals will be studied, with the aim of engaging the students' minds and curiosity in the great diversity. The course requires the students to question their basic perspectives, assumptions and biases particularly regarding non-western religions and cultures. The class will achieve these objectives through relevant readings, lectures, movies and discussions. By the end of the class, it is hoped that the student will have broadened their views on religion, especially as it is practiced in Africa. Final exam; 2 quizzes; two short essays.

Prof. Benjamin Ray

TR 9:30 – 10:45

CAB 210
Studies Yoruba traditional religion, ritual art, independent churches, and religious themes in contemporary literature in Africa and the Americas.

Instructor: Milton Vickerman

MW 15:30 – 16:45

CAB 316
Examines contemporary immigration into the United States from the point of view of key theoretical debates and historical circumstances that have shaped current American attitudes toward immigration.

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DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH, ITALIAN, AND PORTUGUESE

POTR 427 - Afro-Brazilian Civilization (3)

Instructor: David Haberly