English 4371: Cultural Encounters

Householder, fall 2005

9/20/05: The Invention of Race

 

 

 

  1. Best’s account of Frobisher’s third voyage (1578). 

 

 

    1. The desire for order. 

 

 

 

 

    1. The “mistaken straights”

 

 

 

 

    1. Adventure and resolution. 

 

 

 

    1. Recovering the cross.  

 

 

 

 

  1. Implications of the Frobisher voyages for English exploration/colonization.

 

 

    1. Best’s ambivalent ethnography

 

 

 

 

    1. Traffic/commerce

 

 

 

 

    1. Race.  (see Ivan Hannaford, Race: The History of an Idea in the West) 

 

 

                                                              i.      Best’s preface on climatological theory. 

 

 

 

                                                             ii.      Dodding’s autopsy report.

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion: 

 

 

 

 

Next time: Please read the three secondary articles listed on the syllabus, all available on JSTOR.  Our discussion of these three articles will serve as our introduction to the first essay assignment.