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Post-Colonial Studies
Spragins
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Carey
Hall Room 206
Office Hours: 2:15-3:30 p.m. (daily)
jspragins@gilman.edu
(410) 828-5212
4th Period Class: Day 6
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N.C. Wyeth,
illustrations
for Robinson Crusoe
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European Depictions of the Other
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Michel Foucault
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Post-Colonial Theory
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Toussaint L’Ouverture
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Papa Doc Duvalier
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History of Haiti Internet
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Paul Farmer
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Mountains
Beyond Mountains (2004) by Tracy Kidder
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Edwidge Danticot
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Krik? Krak! (1996) by
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Junot Diaz
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The Brief
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Robert Kagame
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A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and
the Man Who Dreamed It by Stephen Kinzer (2008) |
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Course Description
Course Texts
Homework:
Read Cunliffe, “Hegel, Haiti and Universal History”
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Watercolor drawing "Indians Fishing" by
John White
(created 1585-1586).
Jasper Britton as Caliban
in The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside,
London
The
Caribbean Today
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Discuss Cunliffe on Buck-Morss.
European Depictions of the Other:
Man in the State of Nature
Write a two page report and prepare a powerpoint
to present to the class which explores the ways that Europeans depict
natives and Africans in the following.
- To what degree is the depiction of the other
accurate?
- What does his/her representation of the
other tell us about the observer’s own psychology?
a. Columbus, from Diaries
(1492)
b. John White, "The
True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Parte
of America Now Called Virginia" (1585) (from Virtual Jamestown) excerpt from Thomas Hariot's, "A
Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of
Virginia" (If interested, read “The Lost Colony”,
chapter two of American Slavery...American Freedom (1975) Edmund
Morgan Study Guide)
c. Montaigne: "On Cannibals" (1587)
(Study Guide) Read
also: Jean de Léry, from History of
a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (1578) ; Arthur Barlowe, The First Voyage Made to Virginia
(1594)
d. Shakespeare, from The Tempest (Act I,
scene ii)
(1610) Study Guide
(Check this page out: The Tempest: The Empire Writes Back.)
e. Daniel
Dafoe, from Robinson Crusoe
(1719) chapters 14 and 15. (Check this page out: Robinson
Crusoe: The Empire Writes Back.)
f. Voltaire, from Candide, Chapter 16: “The
Biglugs: Man in the State of Nature”; Chapter
19: “Surinam”
For extra reading: Norton Anthology 16th Century Topics: Renaissance
Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside of Europe
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N.C. Wyeth,
illustrations for Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday, Carl
Offterdinger (1829-89)
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European
Depictions of the Other: Man in the State of Nature
Write a two page report and prepare a Powerpoint
to present to the class which explores the ways that Europeans depict
natives and Africans in the following:
a. Columbus, from Diaries
(1492)
b. John White Watercolors: "The
True Pictures and Fashions of the People in That Parte
of America Now Called Virginia" (1585) (from Virtual Jamestown)
c. Montaigne, "On Cannibals" (1587)
(Study Guide)
d. Shakespeare, from The
Tempest (Act I, scene ii) (1610) Study
Guide
e. Daniel
Dafoe, from Robinson Crusoe
(1719) chapters 14 and 15. .
f. Voltaire, from Candide, Chapter 16: “The
Biglugs: Man in the State of Nature”; Chapter
19: “Surinam”
For extra reading: Norton
Anthology 16th Century Topics: Renaissance
Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside of Europe
Homework:
French Revolution
Chronology (Powerpoint) (Study Guide)
Crane Britton on the
Anatomy of Revolution
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ROSH HASHANNAH
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Francois Rude, La Marseillaise,
Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1833-1836
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Post-Colonial
Theory:
Frantz Fanon, On Alienation
Michel Foucault, The Discourse of Power
Edward Said, Orientalism
Homi Bahaba, Mimicry
French Revolution
Chronology (Powerpoint)
1789-92 Liberal Phase
1792-95 Radical Phase
1795-99 Thermidorean Reaction
1800-15 Napoleon
Crane Britton on the
Anatomy of Revolution
Homework:
Haitian Revolution Chronology
(Web) (Study Guide)
(1789; 1790; 1791; 1792; 1793; 1794; 1795; 1796; 1797; 1798; 1799; 1800; 1801; 1802; 1803; 1804; 1805)
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Colonial Saint Dominique
Saint Dominique Large Image
Cap Francais
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Haitian
Revolution Chronology (Web)
Timeline
from Columbus to the Revolution
Demographics of Saint Dominique (1789)
Outline of Revolution:
1791 Bois Caiman and First Uprising
1792-93 First Commission: Law of April 4th ; Failed attempts
to integrate the colonial forces; L’affaire Galbaud
and the burning of Le Cap; Toussaint’s Proclamation from Camp Turel (August 1793); British Invasion
1794 Toussaint changes sides and takes the Cordon de l’Ouest
Homework:
Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture,
Intro. and Ch. 1 ‘Opening the Gate’ pp. 3-56 (Study Guide)
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Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture,
Intro. and Ch. 1 ‘Opening the Gate’ pp. 3-56 (Study Guide)
Haitian Revolution Chronology
(Web)
Short Chronology
1790-93
Homework:
Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture,
Ch 2 ‘Before the Storm’; ch.3 Turning the Tide’ pp. 56-134 (Study Guide)
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The
Pillage and Burning of Le Cap,
June 1793
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Short Chronology
1790-93
Short
Chronology 1793-96
Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture,
Ch 2 ‘Before the Storm’; ch.3 Turning the Tide’ pp. 56-134 (Study Guide)
Toussaint’s Biography to 1791
The Revolution: August 1793 to April 1796
Toussaint’s Royalist Strategy
Toussaint’s Jacobin Strategy
Toussaint’s African Strategy
Toussaint’s Military Strategy
Homework:
Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture,
Ch 4 ‘Closing the Circle’ pp. 135-192 (Study Guide)
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Battle on Santo Domingo, a painting by January Suchodolski
depicting a struggle between Polish troops in French service and the
Haitian rebels
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Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture, Ch 4
‘Closing the Circle’ pp. 135-192 (Study Guide)
Short
Chronology: 1797-1801
Civil War with the Mulattoes
Toussaint’s Negotiations with the British and the Americans
Driving Hedouville from the Colony, Inviting Roume
to Return
The Siege of Jacmel
Santo Domingo Surrenders
Toussaint’s Constitution
Moyse’s Insurrection
Homework:
Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture, Ch
5 ‘The Last Campaign” pp. 193-265 (Study Guide)
Short
Chronology 1801-03
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La Crete
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Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture,
Ch 5 ‘The Last Campaign” pp. 193-265 (Study Guide)
Short
Chronology 1801-03
Toussaint’s Catholicism
Moyse’s Rebellion
Napoleon’s Options (220)
Toussaint’s Strategy vs. Leclerc’s Expedition
Toussaint’s Surrender and Capture
Essay Question:
Determine your own position on the individual importance
of Toussaint to the historical moment in which he lived. Was his role as
leader indispensable to Haiti’s potential future? Or was his vision of a
dynamically productive multi-cultural society simply too far ahead of its
time to be realized?
Defend your position by analyzing the political, economic, and military
choices Toussaint made as he led the freed slaves to the brink of a new
world.
Hegel had argued that the master-slave relationship would inevitably
transform the slave into a being capable of demanding recognition and
respect from the other. Did Toussaint represent such a new man?
Homework:
Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture,
Ch 6-7 ‘Toussaint in Chains’ and ‘Scattering the Bones’ pp. 266-290 (Study Guide)
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Liberator Jean-Jaques Dessalines
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Bell, Toussaint L’Ouverture,
Ch 6-7 ‘Toussaint in Chains’ and ‘Scattering the Bones’ pp. 266-290 (Study Guide)
Homework:
Essay on Toussaint
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Papa Doc
Duvalier
Papa Doc
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Baby Doc Duvalier
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Essay on Toussaint due at 3:30
History of Haiti Internet
Research Project
Topics:
19th c. Haitian History (to 1915)
The US Occupation (1915) to the Duvaliers
(1957-86)
Recent Haitian Politics (1986-2009)
The Earthquake and After (2009-2010)
Brief Chronology
Library of Congress Country
Studies
Independent Haiti
Christophe's Kingdom and Pétion's
Republic
Boyer: Expansion and Decline
Decades of Instability, 1843-1915
The United States Occupation, 1915-34
Politics and the Military, 1934-57
François Duvalier 1957-71
Jean-Claude Duvalier, 1971-86
Bob Corbett Resources:
Haitian 19th
c History 1805-1915
The First
U.S. Occupation 1915-1934
Haiti
1934-56
The Duvaliers 1957-1986
Haiti
Under Military Rule 1986-90
Recent
Haitian Politics 1990-2010
Recent Newspaper Articles:
The Earthquake
and After 2009-10
Homework:
Haitian History
Project
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
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Haitian
History Internet Project
Homework:
Read: Mountains Beyond Mountains (2004)
by Tracy Kidder Part One, “Dokte Paul” pp. 1-45 (Study Guide)
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Mountains Beyond Mountains (2004)
by Tracy Kidder Part One, “Dokte Paul” pp. 1-45
Chapter One (3-8) Haiti 1994
Chapter Two (9-17) Boston
1999
Chapter Three (18-32) Zanmi Lasante 2000
Chapter 4 (33-44) Sustainable
Care?
Homework: Mountains Beyond
Mountains (2004) by Tracy Kidder Part Two, “The Tin Roofs of Cange” pp. 47- 121. (Study Guide)
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A Hut in Cange, Haiti
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Part Two: The Tin Roofs of Cange (45-121)
Chapter 5 (47-58) Farmer’s Childhood and Family
Chapter 6 (59-65) Duke
University
Chapter 7 (66-76) Ophelia Dahl
Chapter 8 (76-84) Cange
Chapter 9 (85-95) Harvard and Haiti
Chapter 10 (96-103) Partners
in Health
Chapter 11 (104-113) Aristide
Chapter 12 (114-121) Military Rule 1991-94
Homework: Mountains
Beyond Mountains (2004) by Tracy Kidder Part Three, “Medicos Adventureros”
pp. 123-177. (Study Guide)
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Mountains Beyond Mountains (2004)
by Tracy Kidder Part Three, “Medicos Adventureros” pp. 123-177. (Study Guide)
Chapter 13 (125-134) MDR 1995
Chapter 14 (129-134) Lima,
Peru
Chapter 15 (135-141) The
Problem with DOTS
Chapter 16 (142-147) A New Drug Protocol Regimen?
Chapter 17 (148-158) Funding
the Change in Protocol
Chapter 18 (159-164) Taking
on the WHO
Chapter 19 (165-177) Economics and Medical Care
From Haiti to Rwanda (PIH Multimedia)
Homework: Mountains Beyond
Mountains (2004) by Tracy Kidder Part Four, “A Light Month for Travel”
pp. 179-237. (Study Guide)
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Farmer helps lay the cornerstone for a new teaching hospital in Mirebalais.
St.
Petersburg Times 10/10/2010
Prisoners in Moscow
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Mountains Beyond Mountains (2004)
by Tracy Kidder Part Four, “A Light Month for Travel” pp. 179-237
Chapter 20 (181-192) Farmer’s Days
Chapter 21 (193-210) Cuba’s
Health Care System
Chapter 22 (211-219) Paris
Chapter 23 (220-237) Mission
to Moscow
Homework: Mountains Beyond
Mountains (2004) by Tracy Kidder Part Five, “O for the P” pp.
239-301
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Mountains Beyond
Mountains (2004) by Tracy Kidder Part Five, “O for the P” pp.
239-301
Chapter 24 (239-260) AIDS Treatment in Haiti
Chapter 25 (261-279) John
Chapter 26 (280-298) A Housecall
in Haiti
Afterword (299-301) A New World?
Essay Question: Evaluate Farmer’s approach to public
health. Is it, finally, practical? Should we rethink the health care debate
in the United States with his example in mind?
Homework: Essay on Farmer
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PSATs
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Ceremonie Vodou
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Essay on Farmer due at 3:30 pm
Backgrounds to Danticot’s Stories:
Edwidge
Danticot (MacArthur Fellowship Profile)
Haitian Migration
1972-81 (LOC Country Studies)
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Murders and Starvation Reported on Haitians’ Boat by Jo Thomas NY Times October
16, 1981
Haitians
Face Perils of Sea To Reach U.S. by John H. Cushman, Jr. NY Times February 11,
1992
Boat People
(Seldom Scene Multimedia Poem)
Jean Dominique
(Radio Activist) (Wikipedia)
Tonton
Macoutes (Repeating Islands)
Tonton Macoutes (Brown)
The Parsley
Massacre (Wikipedia)
‘Parsley’
– a poem by Rita Dove
Vodou
Loa (Corbett)
Manman
Brigit (Wikipedia)
Manman Brigitte from Secrets of Voodoo (Rigaud)
Agwe (Wikipedia)
Homework:
Read Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticot (1996),
(1-50)
Notes from Religion
and the Decline of Magic (1976) by Keith Thomas
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Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticot (1996),
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“Children of the Sea” (1-31)
“Nineteen Thirty-Seven” (32-51)
Vodou Loa: Agwe (Corbett)
The Fort Dimanche Prison (NY Times)
The Loup Garou (Corbett)
Post Earthquake Loup Garou
Homework:
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticot (1996),
(51-101)
“A Wall of Fire Rising” (51-81)
“Night Women” (81-89)
“Between the Pool and the Gardenias” (89-101)
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Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticot (1996), (51-101)
“A
Wall of Fire Rising” (51-81)
“Night
Women” (81-89)
“Between
the Pool and the Gardenias” (91-101)
Homework:
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticot (1996), pp. 102-155)
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“The
Missing Peace” (101-123)
“Seeing
Things Simply” (124-142)
“New
York Day Women”(143-155)
Homework:
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticot (1996), pp. 156-224)
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“Epilogue:
Women Like Us” (217-224)
Homework:
Essay on Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticot (1996)
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“Epilogue: Women Like Us” (217-224)
Homework: Essay on Krik? Krak! by Edwidge
Danticot (1996)
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History of Santo Domingo Internet Project
Homework:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, pp.
1-50 Introduction and Chapter One, “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the World”
The Annotated
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From the
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Life of Oscar Wao by Junot
Diaz, pp. 1-50 Introduction; Chapter One, “Ghetto Nerd at the End of the
World”
The Golden Age (11-18)
The Moronic Inferno (19-28)
Oscar Is Brave (28-33)
Oscar Comes Close (33-36)
Amor de Pendejo (36-40)
Oscar In Love (40-50)
The Annotated Oscar Wao
Homework:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, pp.
50- 110 Chapter Two, “Wildwood” (1982-1985) Chapter Three “The Three
Heartbeats of Belicia Cabral” (1955-1962)
The Annotated
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50- 113
Chapter Two, “Wildwood” (1982-1985)
Chapter Three “The Three Heartbeats of Belicia
Cabral” (1955-1962)
Look at the Princess (77)
Under the Sea (77-82)
La Chica de Escuela
(82-89)
Kimota! (89)
Numero Uno (89-94)
Hunt the Light Knight (95-99)
Amor! (99-113)
Homework:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, pp.
110-165 Chapter Three “The Three Heartbeats of Belicia
Cabral” (1955-1962)
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Cabral” (1955-1962)
El Hollywood (114-118)
The Gangster We’re All Looking For (119-136)
Revelation (136)
Upon Further Reflection (137)
Name Game (137-138)
Truth and Consequences 1 (138)
Truth and Consequences 2 (138-140)
In the Shadow of the Jacaranda (140-142)
Hesitation (142)
La Inca, The Divine (143-145)
Choice and Consequences (145-151)
Fuku vs. Zafa (152)
Back Among the Living (152-154)
La Inca, In Decline (155-160)
The Last Days of the Republic (160-165)
Homework: The Brief Wondrous Life
of Oscar Wao by Junot
Diaz, pp. 167-210 “Sentimental Education” (1988-1992)
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Life of Oscar Wao by Junot
Diaz, pp. 211-261 “Poor Abelard” (1944-46)
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Essay on The Brief Wondrous Life
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"D.I.Y. Foreign-Aid Revolution"
Nicholas Kristof, NY Times Magazine October 20, 2010
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of Oscar Wao by Junot
Diaz due by 3:30 pm.
Homework:
Paul Kagame: Rwanda's redeemer or ruthless dictator?
President Paul Kagame, the Rwandan hero who united a country torn by genocide, defends his uncompromising approach to democracy
Richard Grant, Telegraph 22 Jul 2010
History of Rwanda (History World)
History of Congo (History World)
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Homework: Read Chapters 1-3, pp. 1-57 of A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and
the Man Who Dreamed It by Stephen Kinzer
Further reading: Profile: Agathe Habyarimana,
the power behind the Hutu presidency: Widowed former Rwandan first lady
was linked to extremist group that planned genocide of Tutsis
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Chapters 1-3, pp. 1-57 of A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and
the Man Who Dreamed It by Stephen Kinzer 1. "You Can't Pretend Nothing Happened" - Describe the 'wind of destruction' which accompanied the Hutu Revolution in the late 1950's.
2. "Elegant Golden Rod Beauties" - What was the historic relationship that had existed between Hutu and Tutsi before the advent of colonialism?
- How did this relationship change under the influence of first the Germans and then the Belgians?
- What role did the Church play in heightening tensions between Tutsi and Hutu?
- What events led to the Tutsi massacre in Burundi during the early 1970's? How did this event harden Hutu attitudes in Rwanda?
- What combination of forces overthrew Idi Amin in Uganda in 1979?
- During
the mid-1970's what ideological beliefs drove the actions of Museveni
and the other members of the National Resistance Army?
3. "That's Why I Survived" - What military strategy did Museveni pursue in his struggle to overthrow Obote's regime in Uganda during the early 1980's?
- Who suffers most from such a strategy?
- How did the ideological strength of the NRA contribute to its eventual victory?
- What ideological changes accompanied the transformation of RANU into the RPF?
- How did President Habyarimana try to head off the threat he recognized in the RPF?
- What events precipitated the RPF's decision to attack Rwanda in October 1990?
Homework: Read Kinzer, chapterss 4-6, pp. 59-112
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do you think is the real reason that US intelligence allowed Kagame to
leave this program (with all his classified textbooks) when the RPF
invasion of Rwanda began in October 1990?
- Are we hearing the
whole story about how Kagame was able to get back into contact with the
RPF forces in Rwnada after the death of Fred Rwigyema?
5. Devastation
- Why had the French decided to save President Habyarimana's regime by sending him troops and advanced weaponry?
- Kinsler
(and Kagame) would have us beleive that the Tutsi dispora around the
world reinforced and resupplied the RPF fighters while they struggled
for survival in their 'Valley Forge', the VIrunga Mountains. What is
the real story? What factors contributed to the eventual success of the RPF insurgency?
- How did Kagame shape the ideology of the ikotanyi during this period? What model was he using as he trained them for guerilla war?
6. Creatures from Another World - How did Kagame reannounce the precense of the RPF to the Hutu government and the world?
- What
was the government's strategy from the outset in response to the RPF's
raids? Why did they not attempt a political deal?
- Why did the French support the Hutu regime? Who was incharge of formulating the French policy in Rwanda?
- Check out the 'Hutu Ten Commandments'.
- Was Kagame's goal to topple the government?
- How did the CDR come into being? How were the interahamwe organized? What was the political goal behind resorting to genocide?
- What events precipitated the genocide?
Homework: Read Kinsler 113-167
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goal did Kofi Annan and the UN Peacekeeping Department have when they
sent Romeo Dallaire as head of UNAMIR to Kigali in June 1993?
- Why did the US and France seek to reduce the size of the peace keeping mission?
- What happened to the US members of the peace keeping mission in Somalia that October?
- What circumstances surrounded the assassination of Melchior Ndadaye in Burundi in October 1993?
- Why did the French forces supporting the government leave in December 1993?
- Why did the government allow the RPF to occupy and fortify a building in downtown Kigali?
- Was the UN aware that a murder campaign was being planned?
- Were French and US intelligence aware of the plans for a murder campaign?
- What political impasse scuttled the Arusha accords?
- What do you make of Kinzer's summary of the reasons for the genocide (132)?
8. This is a Coup- Who assumed control of the government after President Habyarimana's plane was shot down?
- What was the fate of Prime Minister Agathe and the Belgian peacekeepers who had been assigned to protect her?
- Why did Daillaire turn down Kagame's request to unite with him to try to stop the killing?
9. Madam, They're Killing My People
- Describe the military campaign the RPF launched to sieze the government.
- What action did the UN take once the killing was well underway?
- What role did the Church play in the genocide?
- What is the difference between 'ethnic cleansing' and 'genocide'?
- Describe
the composition of the interahamwe militias who did the actual killing.
(Do you buy Kinzer's quote of Prunier on 165-66?)
Homework: Read Kinsler pp. 169-231
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- What purpose did the French military intervention serve in stopping the genocide?
11. Something Really Fills Up Your Mind - What form did the UN intervention finally take?
- In what form did Clinton finally commit US forces?
- What lesson does the RPF take from the international community's response to the genocide?
12. Rwanda Doesn't Matter - What
were the flaws in Kagame's stratgic thinking when he agreed to join
forces with Kabila in first routing the Hutu refugee forces and then
overthrowing Mobutu's government?
- Should Kagame have been
charged with crimes against humanity in ordering his forces to
attack the refugee camps protecting the Hutu forces?
13. The Tricky Part - How did Kagame defeat the Hutu insurgency within Rwanda?
- What
effect did Kagame's appointment of Rucagu as governor of the northeast,
predominantly Hutu region have upon his government?
- Describe the way that Kagame shared power with the Hutus in the new government?
- How does Kagame plan to modernize Rwanda?
Homework: Read Kinzer, pp. 232-299
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Kinser right to conclude that authoritarianism, forcing the people to
be 'serious and correct', may be in Rwanda's national character?
- Does
it make sense that a Kagame style 'philosopher king' should rule
absolutely in a country where genocidaires must live side by side with
the family members of their victims?
- How is Kagame's tyranny fundamentally different from that of the typical 3rd World dictator?
- How can a plan as ambitious as 'Vision 2020' be realized in such an undeveloped country?
- Why does Kagame despise Paul Rusesabagina of 'Hotel Rwanda' fame?
- How quickly did the regime reverse the traditional inclination of Rwandan families to have large numbers of children?
15. Breathless With Fear - How do you treat a generation of children suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome?
- Evaluate
the efficacy of the gacaca court tribunals. Would the proceedings be
acceptable to Western jurisprudence? Will they achieve the goal of
reconciliation?
- Is Kagame right to exclude RPF crimes from the gacaca courts' jurisdiction?
- Who among the West's leaders have accepted responsibility for their part in the events leading to the genocide?
16. Famous For Just One Thing - How were the residents of Nyamirambo able to keep the killing out of their neighborhood?
Homework: Read Kinzer, pp. 301-338
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Imagine yourself to be an advisor to President Obama. What advice would
you give him about the lessons to be learned from the Rwandan genocide
of 1994? What type of intervention should the West have made? 2.
Again, you are an advisor to President Obama. Brief him about the
Presidency of Paul Kagame and then recommend a course of action for US
policy towards Rwanda.
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Intended Consequences (2008) by Jonathan Torgovnik Intended Consequences tells the stories of some of these
women, victims of the sexual violence used as a weapon of war against
them. Some 20,000 children were born as a result. Photojournalist
Jonathan Torgovnik photographed and interviewed 30 women and their
families, and has produced a piece of incredible complexity: how does a
woman care for her child when it's the son or daughter of the man who
raped her?
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The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide (2009) by Jean Hatzfeld The Antelope Strategy
is the third installment in a trilogy of books written be Jean Hatzfeld
about the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath. He focuses on one
district in the region of Bugesera, an area of 154 square miles,
where during a period of six weeks in 1994, about 50,000 Tutsis-five
out of six-were murdered by their Hutu neighbors. In his first book Life Laid Bare
(2000) Hatzfeld distills interviews with fourteen Tutsi who witnessed
the horrors of the genocide, but survived it. In the second, The Machete Season (2003), Hatzfeld interviewed ten Hutu perpetrators being held in prison before the general amnesty of 2004.
In The Antelope Strategy
Hatzfeld returns to speak to fourteen survivors who remember the
horrifying atrocities they witnessed yet must find a way to live with
the killers who have been released from prison and granted amnesty in
return for confessions of their crimes in the gacaca courts. Read: "Genocide In Rwanda", Jack R Fischel. The Virginia Quarterly Review. Charlottesville: Winter 2006 Homework: Read Hatzfeld, 1-58
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for the people of Rwanda, or will they instead lead to another
cataclysm? Dramatis Personae Homework: Read Hatzfeld, pp. 161-235
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Homework: Read The Ituri Conflict in NW Congo
during the 2nd Congo War (1999-2002)
.... then Act One of RuinedFurther Reading:
By CELIA McGEE Lynn
Nottage traveled to Uganda to conduct research for her play “Ruined,”
an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children.” January 25, 2009
NY Times
By BEN BRANTLEY Lynn Nottage’s strong and absorbing new play is a comfortable, old-fashioned drama about an uncomfortable of-the-moment subject. February 11, 2009
NY Times
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Moral
Question: Negotiating with Bashir and his regime, which is responsible
for genocide in the Darfur region of Western Sudan.
See Uganda's Secret War by Tim Judah (2004) (NY Review of Books) for the influence of Sudan military support for katongo militia on Northern Uganda.
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ravaged by the terrible war on humanity being waged as the nations of
central Africa struggle towards modernity. Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children was an attempt to demonstrate that greedy small entrepreneurs make devastating wars possible. "What
they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect
with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble
with peace is? No organization." Why
might war be a good business opportunity? How might Mama Nadi as an
entrepreneur be contributing to the war going on around her? Who,
besides Mama Nadi, is making a profit because of the war? Does
Nottage agree with Brecht that the fundamental cause of the war is
economic? Does the action of the play point to a way out of the
nightmare of the past twenty years in sub-Saharan Africa?
Music from the Manhattan Theatre Club Production Homework: Read Act Two of Ruined by Lynn Nottage (2008)
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Backgrounds:
Rape in the Congo by Adam Hochschild (July 2009) (NY Review of Books) In the Heart of Darkness by Adam Hochschild (2005) (NY Review of Books) Kagame's Hidden War in the Congo by Howard French (2009) (NY Review of Books) Uganda's Secret War by Tim Judah (2004) (NY Review of Books) Big Gamble in Rwanda by Stephen Kinzer (2007) (NY Review of Books) IRIN Film: Our bodies their battleground
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