PART I: Identity in Brazil
Our discussion of identity in Brazil will focus on the complex issue of race. Prior to that discussion you should read "The Black Face of Multicultural Brazil" by Dulce Maria Pereira
http://www.mre.gov.br/revista/numero06/ingles/facenegra-i.htm If this link is not working go to the essay by Émerson Luís in the periodical Brazzil. http://www.brazzil.com/cvraug99.htm

If you get hooked on this subject Eugene Robinson's Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race. New York: The Free Press,1999 is an interesting insight into the intellectual process of a Washington Post reporter's journey through issues of color, race and racism on both sides of the Equator.

February 4, 2002
PART II: Identity in Hausaland--Nigeria and Niger Compared
The Hausa people are identified by analysts by virtue of a number of distinguishing characteristics.  But how do they see themselves, and how does this self identification differ among people of the same culture group who, by virtue of the artificial border dividing Niger and Nigeria, differ in terms of their identity. Click here to see how Hausa and CSU students identify themselves. Please do this prior to class on Monday February 9