HISTORY 2005

SPECIAL TOPICS: BRAZIL

Fall Term 1997-98

M 3:00-5:30 3P57 Forbes Quad

Instructor: Reid Andrews

Office: 3P38 Forbes Quad Office Hours: M, W 11:00-12:00 & M 1:30-2:30

Telephone: 648-7473 E-mail: reid1+@pitt.edu

Students will write three short (5 pages) papers at monthly intervals, and one long (15 pages) paper at the end of the semester. The short papers will be based on class reading, will be written in response to questions provided by the instructor, and will be due at the class meeting at which the reading is discussed. The final paper will be a review and critique of the readings for the course as a whole. Late papers will not be accepted. Final grades will be based 50 percent on the papers and 50 percent on class participation.

SCHEDULE OF CLASS MEETINGS

September 8 -- Introduction

I. Colonial Period, 1500-1822

September 15 -- Leslie Bethell, ed., Colonial Brazil (Cambridge and New York, 1987). Individual essays (by H.B. Johnson, Frédéric Mauro, Stuart Schwartz, John Hemming, A.J.R. Russell-Wood, André Mansuy-Diniz Silva, and Dauril Alden) also available on reserve in Cambridge History of Latin America, vols. 1 and 2.

September 22 -- Gilberto Freyre, The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization (Berkeley, 1986).

September 29 -- Stuart B. Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 (Cambridge and New York, 1985).

II. 1822-1930

October 6 -- Leslie Bethell, ed., Brazil: Empire and Republic, 1822-1930 (Cambridge and New York, 1989). Individual essays (by Leslie Bethell, Bethell and José Murilo de Carvalho, Richard Graham, Emilia Viotta da Costa, Warren Dean, and Boris Fausto) also available on reserve in Cambridge History of Latin Amerca, vols. 3 and 5.

October 13 -- Richard Graham, Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Stanford, 1990).

October 20 -- Selected readings, to be assigned, from Emilia Viotta da Costa, The Brazilian Empire: Myths and Histories (Chicago, 1985); and José Murilo de Carvalho, Teatro de sombras: A política imperial (Rio de Janeiro, 1988) and Os bestializados: O Rio de Janeiro e a República que não foi (São Paulo, 1987).

October 27 -- João José Reis, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia(Baltimore, 1993) or A morte é uma festa: Ritos fúnebres e revolta popular no Brasil so século XIX (São Paulo, 1991).

III. 1930-2000

November 3 -- Francis Hagopian, Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge and New York, 1996).

November 10 -- Roberto da Matta, Carnivals, Rogues, and Heroes: An Interpretation of the Brazilian Dilemma (Notre Dame, 1991), 1-115, 137-97; Roberto da Matta, A casa e a rua: Espaço, cidadania, mulher e morte no Brasil (São Paulo, 1985), 9-80 (pp. 55-80 available in English translation in John Wirth et al., State and Society in Brazil: Continuity and Change[Boulder, 1987], 307-35).

November 17 -- Nancy Scheper Hughes, Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Berkeley, 1992).

November 24 -- Contemporary Social Movements

Sonia Alvarez, "The (Trans)formation of Feminism(s) and Gender Politics in Democratizing Brazil," in Jane Jaquette, The Women's Movement in Latin America: Participation and Democracy(Boulder, 1994), 13-63.

George Reid Andrews, "Black Political Mobilization in Brazil, 1975-1990," in George Reid Andrews and Herrick Chapman, The Social Construction of Democracy, 1870-1990 (London and New York, 1995), 218-40.

Jennifer Hochstetler, "Democratizing Pressures from Below? Social Movements in the New Brazilian Democracy," paper presented at LASA Congress, Guadalajara, April 1997

Jennifer Hochstetler, "The Evolution of the Brazilian Environmental Movement and its Political Roles," in Douglas Chalmers et al., The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation (New York, 1997), 192-216.

William Nylen, "The Workers' Party (PT): Confronting Democracy in Brazil," paper presented at LASA Congress, Guadalajara, April 1997.

Anthony Pereira, "The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Rural Labor Movement in North-East Brazil," in Chalmers, New Politics of Inequality, 95-114.

IV. 1500-2000

December 1 -- Warren Dean, With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Berkeley, 1995).

December 8 -- Conclusion(s)