Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 694B - S-Gender and Race in Brazil

This course will begin by studying gender and race in Brazil as it appears in the work of three Brazilian scholars?the sociologist Gilberto Freyre's Masters and Slaves, the historian Junia Furtado's Chica da Silva: a Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century, and the anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro's The Brazilian People: the Formation and Meaning of Brazil?that show the ways gender and race remain interrelated in Brazilian society since colonization. We will also read a novel, by Jo?o Ubaldo Ribeiro, An Invincible Memory, which uses fiction to re-create the Brazilian history, moving from the colonial to the modern era in an attempt to decipher the psyche of contemporary Brazilians.