Brazil and the Afro-Atlantic World: Slavery, Emancipation, and Diaspora

Graduate / Professional

The present seminar reviews the history and historiography of Brazil as the largest and longest-lived slave regime in the Americas and a post-emancipated society that hid structural racism under ideologies of “racial democracy” within an Atlantic perspective connected to Africa. The course examines the cultural, social, and economic aspects of slavery, transatlantic slave trade, racialized violence, and racial inequality in Brazil from its origins in the sixteenth century, passing through the abolition of 1888 and finishing with the rise of Brazilian Black power movement in dialogue with African countries. W 9:25am-11:20am