Day: January 17, 2013

  • LTAM 140 – Topic in Culture and Politics: Being Brazilian: Race, Cannibalization and Animality in Brazilian Cultural Discourse University of California, San Diego Winter 2010 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies This course provides an introduction to Brazilian culture through essays, poetry, fiction, music and films that consider the meaning of…

  • LTAM 110 (A00) – Latin American Literature in Translation: “Brazilian Humanimals: Species, Race and Gender in Brazilian Literature” University of California, San Diego Spring 2012 Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies How do gender, race and species intersect in Brazilian literary representations? What is at stake in scrutinizing the ethical dimensions…

  • White Negroes Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Gender and Women’s Studies Spring 2013 Close readings of literary and filmic texts that interrogate widespread beliefs in the fixity of racial categories and the broad assumptions these beliefs often engender. Investigates “whiteness” and “blackness” as unstable and fractured ideological constructs. These…

  • Interracial Narratives Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies Fall 2012 Guy Foster, Assistant Professor of English Examines the stories that Americans have told about intimate relationships that cross the color line in twentieth- and twenty-first-century imaginative and theoretical texts. Considers how these stories have differed according to whether the participants are heterosexual or homosexual, men…

  • Afro-Asian Encounters: Reading Comparative American Racial Experiences Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Asian Studies Spring 2013 Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies Surveys a breadth of historical and contemporary encounters between African Americans and Asian Americans in the United States. Begins with the earliest waves of Asian immigration in the…