SPRING 2001

This information effective for Spring 2001.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.

Merrill College

[MERR-080B] [MERR-080C]

80B. White Racial Identity in a Multicultural Society

Instructors: Gary Shoemaker, Erin Ramsden, and Dana Carr
MW 3:30-5:15 p.m.
Charles E. Merrill Lounge

Call Number: 60334

Examines White racial identity including different manifestations of racism, White privilege, White culture, inter-racial and intra-racial relations. Students develop and implement action plans to combat racism. Experiential format.

* Excellent preparation for Resident Assistants and for Merrill community service, e.g., Familia Center
* Five Units
* Satisfies the Topical Course requirement in Social Sciences

Enrollment is limited to 25 students, so enroll now!

For more information, call Gary Shoemaker (459-2753)

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80C. French Borderlands in North America

Instructor: Philip Whalen

This course provides an introduction and overview of the history of Native Americans, Europeans, and West Africans in French North America from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Particular attention will be paid to the different patterns of interaction, inter-dependency, domination, and syncretism that emerged and evolved through the multi-cultural crucible of this encounter in New France, Acadia, Louisiana, and Haiti. This will be accomplished through lectures, readings, and discussions that focus on the social, economic, cultural, gendered, and political encounters, alliances, struggles, revolts, and transformations that characterize this history.

Course Requirements: regular attendance; close reading skills; write two 2-page book reviews; hand in a one-page research paper prospectus with accompanying bibliography; write a 8-10 page research paper on a theme or topic addressed in the course; and complete a take-home midterm essay exam.

Required Texts:

Olive Dickason, The Myth of the Savage (U. of Alberta, 1997).
W. J. Eccles, The Canadian Frontier (New Mexico, 1999).
Georges E. Sioui, Huron-Wendat (British Columbia, 1999).
Allan Greer, ed., The Jesuit Relations (Bedford, 2000)
Daniel Usner, Indians, Settlers and Slaves in a Frontier ... (North Carolina, 1990).
Carl Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia (LSUP, 1987).
Thomas Ott, The Haitian Revolution 1789-1804 (Tennessee, 1973).
Tyler Stovall, Paris Noir (Houghton Mifflin, 1998).

Reader: French Borderlands in North America

Optional:

W. J. Eccles, The French in North America: 1500-1763 (MSUP, 1998). [Recommended]
Gendolyn Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana (LSUP, 1992).
Robin Briggs, Early-Modern France: 1560-1715 (Oxford, 1977).
Thanis Thorne, The Many Hands of My Relations (Missouri, 1996).

 

Schedule of Lectures and Readings

Week 1: France, Early Atlantic Voyages and Reconnaissance.

Lectures:

Tues.: French Society, Peoples and Institutions.
Thur.: Explorations, and First Cultural Encounters.

Reading: Dickason, The Myth of the Savage, chs. 1-4; and Eccles, The Canadian Frontier, chs. 1-3. Also see Choquette, "Recruitment of French Emigrants"; Martin, "The European Impact"; Rietbergen, "A New Society." See, Greer, The Jesuit Relations, "Introduction."

Week 2: Northeastern American Societies and Canadian New France.

Lectures:

Tues.: Algonquian and Iroquoian Cultures.
Thur.: Trapping, Trading, and French Habitants.

Reading: McMillan, "The Iroquoians of the Eastern Woodlands"; Dickason, The Myth of the Savage, chs.5-9; Wallis and Wallis, "Elnu, the People"; and Greer, The Jesuit Relations, ch. 1. Also consider: Harris, "The Extension of France into Rural Canada"; and Eccles, The Canadian Frontier, chs. 4-6.

Week 3: Algonkin-French Relations.

Lectures:

Tues.: From Alliance to Interdependence.
Thur.: The Fate of the Wendats.

Reading: Sioui, Huron-Wendat, ch. 3; "Montagnais Women and the Jesuit Program"; Dickason, The Myth of the Savage, chs. 11-13; Eccles, The Canadian Frontier, chs. 7-8; Heidenreich, "The names 'Huron,' 'Huronia,' and Wendat"; Greer, ed., The Jesuit Relations, ch. 2-3; and Jaenen, "Amerindian Views of French Culture..."

Week 4: Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley.

Lectures:

Tues.: Common Struggles for Survival. Book Reviews Due!
Thur.: The Arrival of French Slavery.

Reading: Usner, Indians, Settlers and Slaves, chs. 1-4; Bossu, Travel to the Interior; Cohen, "The Establishment of Slave Societies"; and Hall, "French New Orleans."

Week 5: Louisiana and the Mississippi Valley.

Lectures:

Tues.: The Development of Creole Culture. Mid-term essay questions given out.
Thur.: Spanish Interlude.

Reading: Usner, Indians, Settlers and Slaves, chs. 5-8; Thorne, "People in Between"; Berlin, "Devolution in the Lower Mississippi"; Phillips, "The Spoken French of Louisiana"; and Hall, "The Creole Slaves."

Week 6: Haiti and the Smaller Caribbean Islands.

Lectures:

Tues.: Sugar and Plantation Society. Mid-terms due.
Thur.: Slavery, Industrialization and Liberty.

Reading: Eccles, "The Slave Islands"; James, "French Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery"; and begin Thomas Ott, The Haitian Revolution 1789-1804.

Week 7: Haiti and the Smaller Caribbean Islands.

Lectures:

Tues.: Revolution.
Thur.: French Islands Since 1803. Book reviews due.

Reading: Finish Thomas Ott, The Haitian Revolution 1789-1804; and Christian Huetz de Lemps, "Indentured Servants Bound for the French Antilles."

Week 8: From Barachois to Bayou.

Lectures:

Tues.: Acadia and Diaspora.
Thur.: Louisiana Acadian, Creole or Cajun?

Reading: Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia, chs. 1-2, 4-7, 9-11; Brasseaux, "Emergence of Class"; Woods, "Letoyant Creole Identity"; Rushton, "Confused Perceptions..." and "Acadian Folk Life." See Charlevoix, "Description."

Week 9: French-America in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Lectures:

Tues.: Cultural, Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Survival.
Thur.: Québécois Nationalism. Research Prospectus Due!

Reading: "English Books Banned..."; Morissoneau, "The 'Ungovernable' People..."; Corbett, "Québec Nationalism"; Martel, "When a Majority becomes a Minority..."; Anctil, "The Franco-Americans of New England." Also see, Ouellet, "The Historical Background of Separatism in Québec."

Week 10: Americans and African-Americans in France.

Lectures:

Tues.: Americans, Africans, and African-Americans "Abroad."
Thur.: Eurodisneyland, Coca-Colanialization, and José Bové.

Reading: Tyler Stovall, Paris Noir, chs. 1-5; Winock, "French Anti-Americanism"; Sinton, "Vintage Coup"; and Kuisel, "Détente; Debating America in the 1960s."

 

Research Papers Due as Determined.

 

Reader: French Borderlands in North America

Photos - Maps - "Le Code Noir"
Peter Rietbergen, "A New Society."
Alan McMillan, "The Iroquoians of the Eastern Woodlands."
R. Cole Harris, "The Extension of France into Rural Canada."
Wallis and Wallis, "Elnu, the People."
Calvin Martin, "The European Impact...An Ecological Interpretation."
Cornelius Jaenen, "Amerindian Views of French Culture..."
Colin Calloway, "The Jesuits in New France."
Jean de Brébeuf, The Mission to the Hurons [1635-7] (excerpt).
Conrad Heidenreich, "The names 'Huron,' 'Huronia,' and Wendat."
Eleanor Leacock, "Montagnais Women and the Jesuit Program for Colonization."
Gwendolyn Hall, "French New Orleans" and "The Creole Slaves."
William Cohen, "The Establishment of Slave Societies."
Carl Brasseaux, "Emergence of Class" and "Acadian Folk Life."
Leslie Choquette, "Recruitment of French Emigrants to Canada."
Christian Huetz de Lemps' "Indentured Servants Bound for the French Antilles."
W. J. Eccles, "The Slave Islands."
C. L. R. James, "French Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery."
Pierre de Charlevoix, "Description of the Country of the Natchez."
Jean-Bernard Bossu, Travel to the Interior of North America, 1751-1762.
Tanis Thorne, "People in Between."
Ira Berlin, "Devolution in the Lower Mississippi."
Frances Woods, "Letoyant Creole Identity."
Hosea Phillips, "The Spoken French of Louisiana."
William Rushton, "Confused Perceptions..."
Chistian Morissoneau, "The 'Ungovernable' People..."
Edward Corbett, "Québec Nationalism."
Gilles Martel, "When a Majority becomes a Minority..."
Pierre Anctil, "The Franco-Americans of New England."
Fernand Ouellet, "The Historical Background of Separatism in Québec."
Kuisel, "Détente; Debating America in the 1960s."
Winock, "French Anti-Americanism."

 

Additional Readings:

  1. Bruce Trigger and Wilcomb Washborn, The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, vol. 1: North America, pts. 1 and 2.
  2. Gabriel Sagard, Long Journey to the County of the Hurons [1632].
  3. Andrew Clark, Acadia: the Geography of Early Nova Scotia to 1760.
  4. Alvin Josephy, America in 1492.
  5. Wilson and Ruth Wallis, The Micmac Indians of Eastern Canada.
  6. Conrad Heiddenreich, Huronia; a History and Geography...
  7. Daniel Usner, Indians, Settlers and Slaves...before 1783 (U. North Carolina, 1990).
  8. Alan D. McMillan, The Native Peoples and Cultures of Canada (Douglas & McIntyre, 1995).
  9. Elizabeth Tooker, An Ethnography of the Hurons (Syracuse, 1997).
  10. Mason Wade, The French Canadians, 1760-1967, 2 vols.
  11. Tanis Thorne, The Many Hands of My Relations.
  12. Sylvia Kirk, Many Tender Ties; Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870.
  13. Thomas Ott, The Haitian Revolution 1789-1804 (Tennessee, 1973).
  14. Sybil Kein, ed., Creole (LSUP, 1999).
  15. Gwendolyn Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana (LSUP, 1992).
  16. Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies (MIT, 1995).
  17. Brian Fagan, Clash of Cultures (Freeman, 1984).
  18. Tyler Stovall, Paris Noir (1998).
  19. Christian Huetz de Lemps' "Indentured Servants Bound for the French Antilles."
  20. Michel-Rolph Trouillot, "Coffee Planters and Coffee Slaves in the Antilles."
  21. Dale Tomich, "Une Petite Guinée...in Martinique, 1830-1848."
  22. Roderick McDonald, "Independent Economic Production..."
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