Race, Nation, And Cultural Identity In Brazil (AN200)Posted in Anthropology, Brazil, Caribbean/Latin America, Course Offerings, Media Archive, Social Science on 2012-10-26 15:35Z by Steven |
Race, Nation, And Cultural Identity In Brazil (AN200)
IES Abroad
Chicago, Illinois
Program(s): Rio de Janeiro – Study Brazil
Terms offered: Fall, Spring
Enrique Larreta, Director of the Institute of Cultural Pluralism
Candido Mendes University
The main focus of the course is the construction of national identity in modern Brazil, exploring the different processes that led to a range of cultural representations. The course will start examining the concepts of race, racism and ethnicity in a comparative perspective, and will then discuss the issues of miscigenação, or the myth of racial democracy, and the contemporary politics of identity. Through the analysis of Brazilian modernism in architecture and culture, students will become acquainted with the dimension of Brazil as a future-oriented country. A special focus of the course will be the study of the African slave trade until the abolition of slavery in 1888: during their visit to Bahia, students will be exposed to the ground-breaking work of photographer Pierre Verger.
Learning outcomes: By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Articulate the many dimensions of Brazilian cultural identity
- Conceptualize race and ethnicity in a comparative perspective
- Study the religious experience in Brazilian culture and society
- Elaborate on the notion of Brazil as land of the future
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