Research and teaching
interests:
Professor
Beth Cooper's interests include
the inter-relationship between “modernity” and “Africanity” in
the late
19th and early 20th century AtlanticWorld, with a focus on Brazil and
Cuba; the articulation of political power, forms of work and exchange,
and expressive culture in urban post-emancipationsocieties; the social
history of emancipation, race and racism, and institutionbuilding in
Brazil, Cuba and the U.S.; the practices of micro-history and
transnational history as critical methodological approaches to
histories of race and racism, capitalism and community-building from
the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
Curriculum Vitae: coming
soon