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Check
these links out for further information on this week's topics!
Use
these links as quick references and contextualizing material as well as
for ideas about forms of related activism and community work. To really
delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and
articles in Further Reading.
Remember that materials on the web MUST be evaluated as critically as
any other texts we consider in this course. For brief guidelines on thinking
critically about the web, click HERE.
Theory
- The
History of Race in Science
A comprehensive website run by professors Evelyn M. Hammonds, Michelle
Murphy, and Mike Pettit to document scientific notions of race. Includes
information on happenings and conferences, selected bibliographies,
syllabi for related classes, and a media watch section.
Maps
Maps are not only vital ways to contextualize the readings and theories
in geographic and geopolitical space, but we must also see them as graphic
illustrations of theories of culture in time and space. They are visual
texts and thus must be analyzed critically and in historical context.
- Library
of Congress Maps from European Age of Discovery
Library of Congress digital map collections, 1500-2002. Great collection
of maps from European age of discovery, zoomable to high resolution
details, includes annotated map and details from 1562 Map of America
by a Spanish explorer featured on this website!
- Maps
in Colonialism
Ryan Nock at Emory's nice brief illustrated site on Maps in Colonialism
- Pre-Colonial
African Polities
Annotated map for an anthropology course. Compare this map with the
one of colonial Africa.
- Colonial
Africa Early 20th Century
Excellent color-coded interactive map showing complex colonial holdiings
in Africa during the time E-P did his fieldwork.
- Critical
Essay on Mapping Africa
Ralph Austen's excellent essay giving historical context for the complexities
of mapping Africa. Good companion to the two previous maps listed here.
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