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Apr 17, 2024
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HIST135 PO - European Diasporas in the AmericasWhen Offered: Offered alternate years; next offered fall 2021.
Instructor(s): A. Mayes
This research-based seminar considers the enduring presence of people of European descent in the Americas from the fifteenth century to the present. Focusing particularly on the arrival of European economic migrants to the largest settler-republics in the Americas, Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil, this class takes an inter-disciplinary approach in its study of European diasporas. Through close readings of key works in historical, sociological, anthropological, and political analyses of whiteness/whitening, settler colonialism/republicanism, racial formation, and critical race theory, this class examines the development of European diasporas in the Americas as products of conquest, settler colonialism, trans-Atlantic slavery, and the Enlightenment; the uses and consequences of whiteness and whitening ideologies; and the political uses of whiteness and its consequences in public policy. Letter grade only.
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3
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