• Course Description
• Laboratory
• Syllabus
  • Readings
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  • Schedule

10/8 TH- Discuss Weatherford, Indian Givers: How The Indiana of the Americas Transformed the World. Paper due. Read D. Northrop, The Atlantic Slave Trade and Chp. 1, in Q. Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 (1998) for discussion on 10/22.

10/13 TU- Reading Week

10/14 W Panel, "The Science (?) of Race", panel with Professors Blackburn (Biology), Wade (Philosophy) & Anselai (Psychology), 9:30-11:30, McCook Auditorium. Panel organized within the Trinity Conference on "The Concept of Race".

10/15 TH- Reading Week

10/20 TU- Screen video, "Mirrors of the Heart". a film about Race, and Identity in the Americas, focusing on Bolivia, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.

10/21 W- Lab- "The Concept of Numbers and Mayan Mathematics," Prof. Judy Moran, Dir. Mathematics Center.

10/22 TH- Discuss D. Northrop, The Atlantic Slave Trade and Chp. 1, in Q. Taylor In Search of the Racial Frontier (1998). Paper due. Read Chp. 5 in Burckholder & Johnson, Colonial Latin America

10/27 TU- Discuss Chp. 5, in Burckholder Johnson, Colonial Latin America. Read Chp. 6 in Burckholder Johnson, Colonial Latin America.

10/28 W- Lab- "The Mayan Sense of Time, Calendars, and Astronomical Observations," Prof. Judy Moran, Dir. Mathematics Center.

10/29 TH- Discuss Chp. 6 in Burckholder & Johnson, Colonial Latin America. Read Chp. 7 in Burckholder & Johnson, Colonial Latin America.

11/3 TU- Discuss Chp. 7 in Burckholder & Johnson, Colonial Latin America, Read Chp. 8 in Burckholder & Johnson, Colonial Latin America.

11/4 W- Lab- "Historians, and the Mathematics behind Estimating Population Decline," Prof. Judy Moran, Dir. Mathematics Center.

11/5 TH- Discuss Chp. 8. in Burckholder & Johnson, Colonial Latin America.