In the Heart of the Sea

<p>This week we'll travel back to the early 18th century (and the middle of the Pacific) with In the Heart of the Sea! Join us to learn more about issues of race and ethnicity on whaling ships, Herman Melville, cannibalism, the mysterious skeletons found in a cave on Henderson Island, and more!</p> <p>Sources:</p> <p>Race and the Crew:<br /> Nancy Shoemaker, Native American Whalemen and the World: Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2015).<br /> Nancy Shoemaker, "Mr. Tashtego: Native American Whalemen in Antebellum New England," Journal of the Early Republic 33:1 (Spring 2013): 109-132. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23392572<br /> Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (New York: Penguin, 2000).<br /> Thomas Nickerson, Owen Chase, and Others, The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts (New York: Penguin, 2000).<br /> Timothy G. Lynch, "Black Ahab of the Bay: William T. Shorey and the San Francisco Whale Fishery," Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America ed. Glenn Gordinier, 135-41 (Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2008).<br /> Marilyn Halter, Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 (University of Illinois, 1993).<br /> Lawrence C. Howard, "A Note on New England Whaling and Africa Before 1860," Negro History Bulletin 22:1 (October 1958): 13-16. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44215363<br /> Kelly K. Chaves, "Before the First Whalemen: The Emergence and Loss of Indigenous Maritime Autonomy in New England, 1672-1740," The New England Quarterly 87:1 (March 2014): 46-71. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43285053</p> <p>Film Background:<br /> Scout Tafoya, The Unloved, In the Heart of the Sea: https://vimeo.com/412586427<br /> Perri Nemiroff, "Ron Howard Discusses Making In the Heart of the Sea With a Low Budget Mentality," Collider: https://collider.com/ron-howard-interview-in-the-heart-of-the-sea/<br /> Matt Zoller Seitz, Review of In the Heart of the Sea, Rogerebert.com: h