HIST 571C Race & Gender in the Atlantic World
Columbus' 'discovery' of the Americas launched the creation of an Atlantic World that involved legal and intellectual shifts in the understanding of sexual and racial difference. Rather than evolving as separate discussions, concerns about race and gender intertwined. This course will focus on the racial and gendered discourses in the developing Atlantic World, and how those discourses shaped the experiences of women and Africans. The class will also investigate the ways that participation in the Atlantic systems offered people of color and women the opportunity to transcend culturally created roles.
Cross Listed Courses
HIST 371C
Prerequisite
None