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Welcome to the Race, Slavery, and Popular Culture Research Guide! This guide is your comprehensive resource for exploring the ways in which race and slavery have been represented in popular and performative culture from approximately 1700 CE to the present. Whether you're analyzing historical portrayals, examining modern media, or studying the evolution of cultural narratives, this guide offers a wealth of curated resources to support your research.

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Brainstorm: Kickstart your research with effective brainstorming strategies. Learn how to generate research questions, narrow down your topic, and create a focused research plan that will set you on the right path.
Citation: Discover best practices for organizing your research and effectively writing and citing your papers or projects. This section includes guidelines on various citation styles and tools to help you manage your references and avoid plagiarism.
Reference: Access a variety of reference materials that will form the foundation of your research project. This includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other specialized resources that provide essential background information and context.
Sources (Scholarly/Primary): Understand how to differentiate between scholarly and popular articles, and determine if that material qualifies as a primary or secondary source. This section also includes links to primary sources that are most relevant to your course, helping you access original documents, letters, and other firsthand accounts.
Articles: Learn how to use the FIU Databases to locate scholarly articles that will further your research. This section provides links to multi-disciplinary databases and offers tips on how to conduct effective searches to find the most relevant articles for your topic.
Media: Discover where to look for images, audio, and video in the library. This section highlights multimedia resources that can enhance your research and provide diverse perspectives on your topic.
Help: If you need additional assistance, this section guides you on where to go for more help. Whether you need to contact a librarian, use the chat service, or explore other libguides, support is always available.

Senior Seminar 4935 Textbooks

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Call Number: PR3317 .O7 1973
ISBN: 9780393007022
Publication Date: 1973-12-01
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, the story of an African prince's enslavement by British colonists and his journey from West Africa to the Caribbean, is the first literary work in English to portray the global interactions of that interlocking structure that came to be known as "the triangular trade." This edition features a generous selection of thematically organized historical materials that illuminate the three corners of the Atlantic triangle: West Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe.
Love and Theft by Eric Lott; Greil Marcus (Foreword by)
Call Number: ML1711 .L67 2013
ISBN: 9780195320558
Publication Date: 2013-08-09
For over two centuries, America has celebrated the same African-American culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show appropriated black dialect, music, and dance; at once applauded and lampooned black culture; and, ironically, contributed to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery. This new edition celebrates the twentieth anniversary of this landmark volume. It features a new foreword by renowned critic Greil Marcus that discusses the book's influence on American cultural studies as well as its relationship to Bob Dylan's 2001 album of the same name, "Love & Theft." In addition, Lott has written a new afterword that extends the study's range to the twenty-first century.
Songs, duets, & choruses, in the pantomimical drama of Obi, or, three-finger'd Jack: invented by Mr. Fawcett, and perform'd at the Theatre Royal, Hay Market. To which are prefix'd illustrative extracts, and a prospectus of the action by John Fawcett
Publication Date: 1800?
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Call Number: PR6071.N8 S3 1992
ISBN: 0385265301
Publication Date: 1992-06-01

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