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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: Mabel Chin
<mchin@MIT.EDU>Subject: Please forward - New History Subjects -
Spring 2009</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:34:40
-0500</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+2" color="#C66300"><b>SPRING
2009 - NEW HISTORY SUBJECTS</b></font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#030200"><b>21H.106J Black
Matters: Introduction to Black Studies (also 24.912J, 21A.114J,
21L.008J, 21M.630J, 21W.741J)</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#030200"><b>HASS-D, Category
IV</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>MW 11-12.30</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Interdisciplinary survey that explores
the experiences of people of African descent through the overlapping
approaches of history, literature, anthropology, legal studies, media
studies, performance, linguistics, and creative writing. Connects the
experiences of African-Americans and of other American minorities,
focusing on social, political, and cultural histories, and on
linguistic patterns. Includes lectures, discussions, workshops, and
required field trips that involve minimal cost to
students.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>deGraff / James / Lee</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>21H.115 Christianity and Slavery in
America</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>TR 2.30-4<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Examines the encounter between
Christianity and slavery and the attempts of Christian philosophers
and ordinary Christians to understand human bondage. Begins with a
survey of early European Christian understandings of unfreedom.
Focuses on the impact of the Atlantic slave trade and African
enslavement in the Americas on Christian belief systems.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>C. Wilder</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>21H.511 Chinese Popular
Religion</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>TR 1-2.30</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Explores China's popular religious
practices in their social and sectarian contexts, from the ancient to
the contemporary. Examines questions raised and solutions offered by
Chinese religious traditions. Examples include changing notions of the
soul and afterlife; the roles of family, village, temple and state in
religious life; how gender affects salvation; and the relationship
between religion, science, and political ideologies. Addresses the
religious revival in post-Mao China, and tradition and innovation in
Taiwan and Hong Kong.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I. Chapman</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>21H.916 The Ghetto from Venice to
Harlem</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Provides an in-depth look at a modern
institution of oppression: the ghetto. Uses literature to examine
ghettoization over time and across a wide geographical area, from Jews
in Medieval Europe to African-Americans and Latinos in the
20th-century United States. Also explores segregation and poverty in
the urban "Third World."</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>C. Wilder</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>MIT History Faculty homepage</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://web.mit.edu/history/www/">http://web.mit.edu/history/www/</a
></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>21H subject listings</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><a
href="http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m21Ha.html"
>http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m21Ha.html</a></blockquote>
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