Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2025

     

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AAAS 524 001 (CRN: 26168)

COMPARATIVE HISTORIES

Long Title: COMPARATIVE HISTORIES OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM IN THE ERA OF RACIAL SLAVERY
Department: African & African Amer Studies
Instructor: Bryant, Sherwin
Meeting: 1:00PM - 3:30PM T (13-JAN-2025 - 25-APR-2025) 
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
 
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Section Max Enrollment: 15
Section Enrolled: 3
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 30
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 6
Enrollment data as of: 11-DEC-2024 1:02PM
 
Additional Fees: None
 
Final Exam: GR Course-Dept Schedules Exam
 
Description: This graduate seminar considers the history and historiography of slavery comparatively in the era of Atlantic-racial enslavement. Considering slavery through the lens of sovereignty and political claims, this course traces slavery in Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Americas across time and space. It seeks to engage slavery's political history while analyzing key African and African American Studies theoretical interventions in relationship to the material histories of racial slavery. This study questions the extent to which scholars have engaged the archive of slavery sufficiently in their theorizations of Blackness and Black Study. Cross-list: HIST 524.