Monday

January 15

MLK, Jr. Day of Service

• Come to class Tuesday prepared to talk about the justice dialogues you attended.
  

Tuesday

January 16

Introductions

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Wikipedia entry on “Brazil”  (Things to consider as you read: How do Wikipedia‘s editors portray Brazil?  What is included, and what is excluded?  What kinds of sources do they use for evidence?)

Technology Setup

• If you do not have one already, please create a Voices blogging account.   IT updated the system last summer, so you’ll need to create a new account if you didn’t use the system this fall 2017.  Remember to change your user name to your first name and final initial to protect your privacy.
• Sign up for a free Kanopy (streaming movie) account through the library.
• Sign up on Moodle for two formal blog posts: Brazilian History & Culture and Class Notes.   I’d suggest that you sign up for two different weeks.  (First come, first served!)
• Sign up on Moodle for your book presentation.
• If you do not have one already, create a Wikipedia account.  You can use any (appropriate) user name you like to preserve your privacy.  Accept my email invitation to join our class Wikipedia Portal. If you’re asked for a password, I’m sending it in the email.

Thursday

January 18

 Contemporary Brazil

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Marshall Eakin “The Country of the Present, or Leaving the Future in the Past” (arp – password-protected additional readings page)
• Documentary: Brazil: A Racial Paradise? from the PBS Series “Black in Latin America” (54 minutes) *You’ll need to set up a free Kanopy account**
• Tips on Reading & Note taking for History Courses

Questions to Consider for Today’s Class Discussion:

• Eakin:  Dr. Marshall Eakin
• Documentary: What is Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s argument about the construction of race in Brazil?  What differences does he describe between Brazil and the U.S.?  How does Dr. Gates use expert interviews, primary source analysis, sound, and images to make a persuasive video?

Sign up now to come see me during office hours no later than February 2.  We’ll discuss your interests and potential project ideas.  (Click through to the next week to see more dates if necessary).

Wikipedia: By Sunday, complete the first set of Wikipedia trainings, set up your personal talk page, and introduce yourself on a classmate’s talk page.

Blog Post: by Sunday, 1/21 write a 3-5 paragraph post critiquing Wikipedia’s coverage of Brazilian history.  (See full assignment guidelines here.)

Tuesday

January 23

Cannibalism as Metaphor & Reality

**Introduction to Early Brazilian Books Project**

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Wikipedia “Indigenous Peoples in Brazil“
• “Bandeirantes, Natives, & Indigenous Slavery” from Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
• Brazil Reader pages 16-40  (In case your book hasn’t yet arrived, I’m uploading a scan of this first section to our arp. Please either bring your Brazil Reader book to class, or a print out with your marginal notes)
• Patricia Seed, “Cannibals: Iberia’s Partial Truth” from American Pentamento (arp)

Reading Questions:

• What characterizes indigenous Brazilian peoples in 1500?  What kinds of evidence are available to better understand their histories?
• How do early Portuguese accounts describe indigenous peoples?  What do these texts reveal about Portuguese cultural assumptions?
• What is Dr. Patricia Seed’s main argument?  What evidence does she use to support her claims?  How does her argument fit into work by other historians (historiography)?  What implications do you think Dr. Seed’s research has for understanding early accounts of the Tupinambá and Tupiniquin in Brazil?

Thursday

January 25

Captivity Narratives as Historical Sources

**If possible, bring your computer or device to class**

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Wikipedia Training: “Sources & Citations”, and “Plagiarism.”
• Everyone read & take notes on:
  • Wikipedia “France Antarctique“
  • Mary Shelley Rambles in Germany and Italy (note: you’re looking at the content and structure of this Wikipedia travel account)
  • Wikiproject:Books
• de Léry Group:  “Jean de Léry” and Excerpts (arp)
• Staden Group: “Hans Staden” and Excerpts (arp)
• Thevet Group: “André Thevet” and Excerpts (arp)
• Vespucci Group: “Amerigo Vespucci” and “Letter from Seville“

Reading Questions:

• The Wikipedia community awarded “Rambles in Germany and Italy” featured article status.  Do you agree?  How did the authors of this book page talk about the content, POV, themes, and historical context of this book without violating Wikipedia’s standards for “no original research”?
• Primary Sources: Take careful notes as you read your primary source text.   How does your author describe Brazil and its peoples?  What kind of comparisons, language, metaphors does the author use?  What biases creep into the text?

Sunday

January 28

 Wikipedia Entry: Early Brazilian Books

• On your assigned entry’s talk page, outline your group’s plans for expanding the article.  What reliable sources will you use as evidence?  What information do you need to include in the lead, synopsis, publication information, reception, and outside sources?  Sign your work with ~~~~
• Note: you can complete this assignment any time before midnight on Sunday.

Tuesday

January 30

The Portuguese Colonial Enterprise

*Map Quiz*

Student Book Presentations:

• James H. Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, & Religion in the African-Portuguese World (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2003)
• Thomas D. Rogers, The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2010)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Captaincies-General in Colonial Brazil,” “Feitorias and Engenhos,” and “The Jesuit Order in Colonial Brazil” from Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
• Muriel Nazzari, “Concubinage in Colonial Brazil: The Inequalities of Race, Class, & Gender” The Journal of Family History 21 (1996): 107-24 or (arp)
• “Two Brazilian Wills” (arp)
• Cyark Salvador, Brazil

Questions to Consider:

• What was the economic model in Colonial Brazil, and how did this shape the lived experiences of its inhabitants?
• What social hierarchies does Nazzari describe?  What structural inequalities do you see?  How do hierarchies of race, class, and gender shape family formation?
• How does a digital project like Cyark help give you a better understanding of Salvador, Bahia’s colonial past?  What does architecture reveal about colonial society?

Thursday

February 1

To be a Slave in Brazil

Student Book Presentations:

• Júnia Ferreira Furtado, Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave in the Eighteenth Century (Albuquerque: U New Mexico Press, 2004)
• João José Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “The African Slave Trade & Slave Life” from Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
• Brazil Reader Selections: Stanley J. Stein “A Paraiba Plantation” 76-86; “The War Against Palmares” 125-130; Sir Richard Francis Burton “Slave Life at the Morro Velho Mine” 131-134; “Scenes from the Slave Trade” 135-137; & Thomas Ewbank “Cruelty to Slaves” 138-142
• Stuart B. Schwartz, “Rethinking Palmares: Slave Resistance in Colonial Brazil” from Slaves, Peasants, & Rebels (arp)

Questions to consider:

• Historian Stuart B. Schwartz looks at the historiography of slavery and slave resistance in Colonial Brazil.  What is his central argument?  What kinds of evidenced does he use to support his interpretation?
• What kinds of primary sources about the lives of enslaved Brazilians survive?  What kinds of information do they offer?  What are the limitations of these sources?

Friday

February 2

 Early Brazilian Book Project: Group Wikipedia Book Entries

• All page edits must be posted to Wikipedia by 4pm.  Each student will upload a group work memo to Moodle.

Tuesday

February 6

Independence & the Construction of Brazilian Identity

Student Book Presentations:

• Sandra Lauderdale Graham, Caetana Says No: Women’s Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society (NY: Cambridge UP, 2002)
• Jack Healy: Hendric Kraay, Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia 1790s to 1840s (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Pedro I & Pedro II,” and “Political Instability in 19th C Brazil“
• Brazil Reader Selections: João VI “Decree Elevating Brazil to a Kingdom” 56-57; Pedro I “Declaration of Brazilian Independence” 63-64; George Gardner “The Baron of Parnaíba” 65-68
• Hendric Kraay, “Between Brazil and Bahia: Celebrating “Dois de Julho” in Nineteenth-Century Salvador”  (arp)

Thursday

February 8

Abolition

Student Book Presentations:

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Slavery & Abolition” and “Abolition” from Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
• Brazil Reader Selections: Joaquim Nabuco “Slavery & Society” 143-144; Princess Isabel “Abolition Decree, 1888” 145; & “Laws Regulating Beggars in Minas Gerais, 1900” 146-147
• Camillia Cowling, “Debating Womanhood, Defining Freedom: The Abolition of Slavery in 1880s Rio de Janeiro” Gender & History 22 (2010) (arp)

Friday

February 9

 Brazilian Books Project: Primary Source Analysis

• Upload your pdf to Moodle by 4pm.

Tuesday

February 13

Ideas of Race & “Whitening”

Student Book Presentations:

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Racial Thought After Abolition” and “Immigration” from Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
• Edward Telles, “Introduction” from Race in Another America (arp)
• Nancy Leys Stepan, “Portraits of a Possible Nation: Photographing Medicine in Brazil”  (arp)
• Brazil Reader Selections: Gilberto Freyre “A Vanishing Way of Life” 91-92

Research Project Blog Post (any time before today’s class): In 4-5 well-developed paragraphs, describe your potential research project topic.  What do you hope to discover with this research?  Why is this question important for understanding Brazilian history?  Conclude with a list of 4-5 scholarly sources, and 3-4 primary sources.  Tag your post “research project.”

Questions to consider:

Thursday

February 15

Interior Anxieties

Student Book Presentations:

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Positivism” and “Cinema Novo” from Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
• Dain Borges, ‘Puffy, Ugly, Slothful and Inert’: Degeneration in Brazilian Social Thought, 1880-1940′′ (arp)
• Brazil Reader Dain Borges “A Mirror of Progress” 93-99

Questions to Consider:

 Friday

February 16

 Wikipedia Work: Content Gaps

• Blog Post (by Friday): Write a blog post proposing a potential article that you can tackle for your Wikipedia Article assignment.  What content gaps do you see?  Why is this article important for improving the coverage of Brazilian history and culture?  What reputable sources exist to back up your added content?  For your proposed article, check the Talk page to see what other Wikipedians might be doing.  Tag your post “Wikipedia.”
  Note: this can be related to your larger research project, or you can use this as an opportunity to explore something different.
• Comments: by Sunday, comment on at least three of your classmates’ Wikipedia article ideas.

Tuesday

February 20

Samba & Public Spectacle in Rio

Student Book Presentations:

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “The Vaccine Riots” from Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
• Hermano Vianna, Excerpts from The Mystery of Samba (arp)
• “Geraldo Pereira: Samba Composer and Grifter” (arp)

Questions to Consider:

Thursday

February 22

Brazilian Modernisms

Student Book Presentations:

• Jens Hoffmann and Claudia Nahson, Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist (New Haven: Yale UP, 2016)
•  Stephanie D’Alessandro, Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2017)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Modern Art Week” from Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
• Carol Damian, “Tarsila do Amaral: Art & Environmental Concerns of a Brazilian Modernist” (arp)
• Leslie Bary “Introduction” and translation of Oswald de Andrade’s “Cannibalist Manifesto” (arp)

 Friday

February 23

 Wikipedia Project: Talk Page

• On your chosen article’s talk page, create a new heading to introduce your proposed edits.
• On the talk page, write a few sentences about what you plan to contribute to the selected article. Think back to our discussions of content gaps, Wikipedia’s 5 Pillars, and the American Historical Association article.
• Compile a list of at least 6-8 relevant, reliable books, journal articles, or other sources. Post that bibliography to the talk page of the article you’ll be working on. Make sure to check in on the Talk page to see if anyone has advice on your bibliography.

Tuesday

February 27

Getúlio & the Estado Novo

Student Book Presentations:

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “The Rise of the Military in Politics” and “Return of Vargas“
• Brazil Reader: Oliveira Vianana “Why the Estado Novo” 184-185; Vargas “New Year’s Address” 186-189; Bailey W. Diffie “Comments on the Estado Novo” 200-203; “Ordinary People” 206-221
• Norma Fraga: Race, Class, Education, and the Estado Novo (arp)
• “Life Goes to a Nightclub in Rio with the Wife & Family of the President of Brazil” Life 3 November 1941

Thursday

March 1

The Urban Working Class

Student Book Presentations:

Work to complete before today’s class:

 Friday

March 2

 Wikipedia: Peer Review of Article Improvement Plans

• Complete “Peer Review” Training & Interwine.
• Leave detailed, concrete comments on your two assigned articles’ Talk Pages.  What suggestions do you have for improvement?  Mark your comments with a new subheading, and sign your feedback ~~~~.

Sunday evening

March 4

Film: Madame Satã (2002)

• 6pm, Kauke 244
• Please feel free to bring your dinner to the showing!

Tuesday

March 6

Madame Satã

Student Book Presentation:

• Tommy: Matthias Röhrig Assunção, Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art (New York: Routledge, 2005)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Madame Sata (Satan): The Black “Queen” of Rio’s Bohemia” (arp)
• start reading The Hour of the Star for discussion Thursday
• Wikipedia: Respond to your peers’ comments and suggestions on your article’s talk page.

Blog Post: by Wednesday night, post a thoughtful discussion question about The Hour of the Star (and your response, drawing on specific examples from the text).

Thursday

March 8

Clarice Lispector

Student Book Presentations:

• Mia: Benjamin Moser, Why this World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (New York : Oxford UP, 2009)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Clarice Lispector The Hour of the Star

Friday

March 7

 Research Prospectus Due

• Upload your research abstract and annotated bibliography to Moodle by 4pm.

Tuesday

March 27

Bananas is My Business

Student Book Presentations:

• Natalie: Bryan McCann, Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil (Durham: Duke UP, 2004)
• William: Jack Draper, Forró and Redemptive Regionalism from the Brazilian Northeast: Popular Music in a Culture of Migration (New York: Lang, 2011)

• “Cultural Exchange” and “Bossa Nova“
• Brazil Reader: Helena Solberg “Bananas Is My Business” 471-473
• “Latin Ladies” Life 3 February 1941: 50-54.
• Darien Davis, “Racial Parity and National Humor: Exploring Brazilian Samba from Noel Rosa to Carmen Miranda, 1930-1939” (arp)

Thursday

March 29

Brasilia

Student Book Presentations:

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Presidents under the Return to Democracy” and “Brasilia“
• Valerie Fraser “The Origins of Brasília” and “Success and Failure of Brasília” from Building the New world: Studies in the Modern Architecture of Latin America, 1930-1960 (arp)
• “Growing Pains of a Big Country” Life 21 October 1957: 82-93
• Before class, post a full rough draft of your Wikipedia article. 
  

Sunday

April 1

 Wikipedia: Peer Review of Articles

• Use your best judgement: depending on the kind of change you’re proposing, you can either leave suggestions on on the Talk page of the article, or make direct edits to the article itself (posting explanations of your changes). Other editors may be reviewing your work, so look for their comments! Be sure to acknowledge feedback from other Wikipedians.
  As you review, make spelling, grammar, and other adjustments. Pay attention to the tone of the article. Is it encyclopedic?

Sunday

April 1

Film: O Que É Isso, Companheiro? (Four Days in September) (1997)

• 6pm in Kauke 244
• Please feel free to bring your dinner!

Tuesday

April 3

1964

Student Book Presentations:

• Tyler: Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna, Brazil, 1964-1985 : The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War (New Haven: Yale UP, 2017)
• Catalina: Benjamin A. Cowan.  Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil  (Chapel Hill : UNC P, 2016)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “The Country that Saved Itself” and “Military Rule“
• Sarah Sarzynski, “Reading the Cold War From the Margins: Literatura de Cordel as a Historical Prism” (arp)
• NSA “Brazil Marks 40th Anniversary of Coup” Sources #1 & #2

Thursday

April 5

Social Revolutions

Student Book Presentations:

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Student Movements“
• Christopher Dunn, “The Tropicalist Movement” from Brutality Garden (arp)

• Brazil Reader: Jessica Callaway “Two Poets Sing the New World” 491-496

 Friday

April 6

 iMovie Script and Storyboard due

• Post your complete draft by noon.  By Monday at noon, post your comments on two peers’ scripts.

Tuesday

April 10

Televised Representations of National Identity

Student Book Presentations:

•  Kennedy: Amelia S. Simpson, Amelia S., Xuxa: The Mega-Marketing of Gender, Race, and Modernity (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1993)
• Maria: Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families (Austin: U of Texas P, 2015)
• Tongtong: France Winddance Twine Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil (New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers UP, 1998)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• La Pastina, Straubhaar, Sifuentes “Why do I feel I don’t belong to the Brazil on TV?” (arp)
• The Guardian “Too Black for Brazil?“
• Black Women of Brazil, “Why Are American Women So Bothered by the Globeleza Commercial?

Thursday

April 12

WGSS Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon!

• 11:00 am to 1:00 pm in the CoRE
• Come join us in bridging Wikipedia’s diversity gap!!!

Thursday

April 12

Race & Beauty Culture

Student Book Presentations:

• Nasua: Alexander Edmonds, Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil (Durham: Duke UP, 2010)
• Jackson: Edward Telles, Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Upload your Wikipedia project slide before class.
• Alexander Edmonds, The poor have the right to be beautiful’: Cosmetic Surgery in Neoliberal Brazil” (arp)

Friday

April 13

 Wikipedia Article Due

• Complete all edits, and upload your Project Memo pdf to Moodle by 4pm.

Tuesday

April 17

The Beautiful Game

Student Book Presentations:

• Danny: Christopher Thomas Gaffney, Temples of the Earthbound Gods: Stadiums in the Cultural Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires (Austin: U Texas Press, 2008)
• Woo: Gregg Bocketti, The Invention of the Beautiful Game: Football and the Making of Modern Brazil (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2016)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Christopher Gaffney “A World Cup for Whom?” (arp)
• JoséSergio Leite Lopes, “Class, Ethnicity, and Color in the Making of Brazilian Football” Daedalus 129 (2000): 239-270. (arp)
• Brazil Reader: “Two Essays on Sports” 497-504

Questions to Consider:

Thursday

April 19

iMovie Work Day

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Come to the lab with your working materials saved on a usb/thumb drive.  You should have an audio recording of your script, ideas for music/sound effects, and image files.  If you use a Macbook, please bring it to the workshop.

Sunday

April 22

Film: The Wasteland (2010)

• 6pm in Kauke 244
• Please feel free to bring your dinner!

Tuesday

April 24

Favelas & Favelados

Student Book Presentations:

• Danica: Karina Biondi, Sharing This Walk: An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil.  Edited and translated by John F. Collins (Chapel Hill: UNC P: 2016)
• Alberto: Enrique Desmond Arias, Drugs & Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social networks, & Public Security (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2006)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• “Income Inequality“
• R. Ben Penglase, chs 3 & 5 from Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela (arp)

Blog Post: by 9am on Thursday, post two discussion questions (and preliminary responses) about Wasteland.

Thursday

April 26

The Wasteland

Student Book Presentations:

•  Abby: Aaron Michael Ansell, Zero Hunger: Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2014)
• Jack Hyman: Janice Perlman, Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro (New York: Oxford UP, 2010)

Work to complete before today’s class:

• Vik Muniz  descriptions of one of the paintings he recreates: “Death of Marat,”
• Associação dos Catadores do Aterro Metropolitano de Jardim Gramacho

Friday

April 27

 IS Symposium

Tuesday

May 1

Brazil Today

*Course Evaluations – Please bring your laptop to class*

Work to complete before today’s class:

Thursday

May 3

Comparing Brazil and the United States

Work to complete before today’s class:

• George Reid Andrews, “Racial Inequality in Brazil & the US” (arp)

Blog Prompt: What are the three most important things you learned this semester?