From the 16th through the 19th centuries, the Transatlantic slave trade meant roughly two-thirds of those who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas were African. This unit introduces students to the complexities of race and representation by examining the responses to and expressive forms arising from the social, political and cultural interactions of African, Caribbean, American and European peoples that together produced what Paul Gilroy termed the Black Atlantic. We examine a range of literary and film texts from Britain and the Americas from the 18th century to the present to consider slavery and its legacies, plantation cultures, and the cultural and historical work of 'blackness. '
Unit details and rules
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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None |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Sarah Gleeson-White, sarah.gleeson-white@sydney.edu.au |
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Lecturer(s) | Sarah Gleeson-White, sarah.gleeson-white@sydney.edu.au |
Nicola Parsons, nicola.parsons@sydney.edu.au | |
Lucas Thompson, lucas.thompson@sydney.edu.au | |
Tutor(s) | Ella Collins-White, ella.collins-white@sydney.edu.au |
Matthew Clarke, matthew.clarke@sydney.edu.au |