ANTH 211
Black, Indian, and Other in Brazil Fall 2014
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed INST 211
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As host to global sports spectacles like the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Brazil has garnered much attention of late. Headlines have also focused on the wide-scale social protests that have gripped the country in recent years. The central question of the course is why Brazilians so often articulate the country in terms of its unfulfilled promise, i.e. “a country of the future” (um paĆ­s do futuro) and the centrality of race and ethnicity to the country’s national project. Brazil presents itself as a multicultural racial democracy, a product of 500 years of mixture and progress. However, the tumultuous terms for daily life amidst legacies of slavery and often brutal development schemes belie prevailing rhetoric. The course will focus on elements of indigenous and Afro-Brazilian cultures (such as religion, cosmology, and music), while at the same time situating cultural movements like the Movimento Negro (Black Movement) and indigenist politics within the larger international production and exchange of ideas regarding blackness and indigeneity. Core course materials consist of both academic literature and pieces from Brazilian popular culture, including cinema, music, and television.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 12
Class#: 1181
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: in-class presentation, 5-page written component to presentation, and a final 10- to 15-page research paper
Prerequisites: none; open to first year students
Enrollment Preferences: Anthropology and Sociology majors
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ANTH 211 Division II INST 211 Division II
Attributes: INST Latin American Studies Electives

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