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Week XIII.{Personalities}{Readings}{Multimedia}

Contemporary African-American Thought: the 1990s to the Present


PERSONALITIES >>>

Maxine Waters
Ronald Brown
Anita Hill
Cornel West
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Molefi Asante
Tupac Shakur
Clarence Thomas
Louis Farrakhan
Benjamin Chavis


READINGS >>>

Marable, Race, Reform and Rebellion, Chapter IX, "Epilogue: The Vision and the Power," pp. 220-230.

Marable and Mullings, eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section Five, Numbers 10-18, pp. 577-633.

MULTIMEDIA >>>

Music:
Brand Nubian - "Wake Up" (1990)
Queen Latifah - "U.N.I.T.Y." (1993)
Tupac - "Keep Ya Head Up" (1993)
Tupac - "Dear Mama" (1995)
Curtis Mayfield - "New World Order" (1996)
Dead Prez - "Hip Hop" (2000)
Dead Prez - "Police State" (2000)
Prince - "2045: Radical Man" (2000)

Speeches: Louis Farrakhan - excerpts from his speech at the 1995 Million Man March
   Clip 1 - Why We Are Gathered
   Clip 2 - Overcoming Our Differences
   Clip 3 - White Supremacy
   Clip 4 - Clean Up !
   Clip 5 - The Million Man March Pledge

 

Video: Los Angeles Police beating of Rodney King (1991)


Films:
Boyz in the Hood, clip
New Jack City, clip
Clips from Million Man March, 1995
T.V. clip depicting L.A. urban uprising, 1992
Clip of O.J. Simpson Trials, 1994-1995





 

 


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