79-259 Black Rice

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Rice originates in only two places in the world Africa Asia. Most historians agree that West African rice and its cultivation processing technology were transmitted to colonial SC GA via the transAtlantic slave trade, laying the foundation for the commercial rice industry and making South Carolina rice planters the richest planters in British North America before the American Revolution. Though some historians dont agree.... In Black Rice, well learn about how rice technology in West Africas Upper Guinea Coast for subsistence, how it was transferred to the antebellum US South, and why technology in precolonial West Africa and enslaved people as skilled, not just brute labor are so, so controversial In addition, we will watch the March 3, 2023 performance of Unburied Unmourned, Unmarked Requiem for Rice by the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center and discuss the libretto on which the project was based.

Prerequisites: none listed

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