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SYLLABUS
All readings listed below are required, not optional, unless
otherwise indicated by discussion section instructors. The dates indicate
the topics covered in lectures.
I. ORIGINS: AFRICAN
HERITAGE AND THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.
Wednesday, January 23 - Monday,
January 28
Readings:
Manning Marable and Leith Mullings,
eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around, "Introduction," pp.
xvii-xxv; Section One, "Introduction," pp.3-7; and Number 1,
pp.7-16.
Robert Hayden, "Middle
Passage"
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, "Thoughts
and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce
of the Human Species" (excerpts)
II. THE AFRICAN DIASPORA AND
SLAVERY IN THE CARIBBEAN AND COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA.
Wednesday, January 30 -
Monday, February 4 - Wednesday, February 6
Readings:
"The Coming of the British"
- Chapter 2 from James Walvin, The Making of the Black Atlantic,
pp.19-32.
"The Emergence of Black
Sailors in Plantation America" - Chapter 1 from Jeffrey Bolster,
Black Jacks, pp.7-43.
"Black Britain" -
Chapter 7 from Walvin, The Making of the Black Atlantic, pp.100-115.
C.L.R. James, The Black
Jacobins.
III. THE SLAVE COMMUNITY:
OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE, 1800-1860.
Monday, February
11 - Wednesday, February 13
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section
One, Numbers Sand 6 pp. 5-42; Numbers 8, 9 and 10, pp.48-52; Number 17,
pp.91-109 and Number 19, pp.114-116.
Frederick Douglass and Harriet
A. Jacobs, Slave Narratives
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls
of Black Folk [Pages to be assigned.]
IV. THE FREE BLACK COMMUNITY:
NORTH OF SLAVERY, 1800-1860.
Monday, February 18 - Wednesday,
February 20
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds.,
Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section One, Numbers 2-4, pp.16-35;
Number 7, pp.42-47; Numbers 11-16, pp.52-91 and Number 18, pp. l 10-114.
Readings from early African-American
newspapers published in New York City: Freedom's Journal and/or
The Colored American.
"Free Sailors and the
Struggle with Slavery" - Chapter 7 from Jeffrey B olster, Black
Jacks, pp.190-214.
Speech by Rev. Nathaniel Paul
to the Anti-Colonization Society of London, 1833.
V. WAR, RECONSTRUCTION AND REACTION.
1860-1890
Monday, February
25 - Wednesday, February 27
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds.,
Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section Two, 1-7, "Introduction,"
pp.119-124; and Numbers 1-7, pp.125-167.
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls
of Black Folk. [Pages to be assigned.]
VI. ACCOMMODATIONISM VS. REFORM:
THE BLACK POPULISTS, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND W.E.B. DU BOIS, 1890-1919.
Monday, March 4 - Wednesday, March 6 - Wednesday, March 11
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds.,
Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section Two, Number 8-17, pp.167-233.
Du Bois, The Souls of Black
Folk, [Pages to be assigned.]
VII. THE NEW NEGRO AND THE
GREAT DEPRESSION, 1919-1941.
Wednesday, March 13 - Monday,
March 25
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds.,
Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section Three, "Introduction,"
pp.237-242 and Numbers 1-17, pp. 242-339.
Richard Wright, Black Boy
(American Hunger).
VIII. WORLD WAR II, COLD
WAR, AND THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT, 1941-
1960.
Wednesday, March 27 - Monday,
April 1
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds.,
Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section Three, Numbers 18-21, pp.339-364;
Section Four, "Introduction," pp.367-376; Numbers 1-3, pp.376-394;
Number 7 (1957 document), pp.400-403; and Number 9, pp.409-419.
Malcolm X, The Autobiography
of Malcolm X, [pages to be assigned.]
Aime Cesaire, Discourse
on Colonialism.
IX. FROM "FREEDOM NOW"
TO "BLACK POWER": MALCOLM, MARTIN
AND THE SIXTIES, 1960-1968.
Wednesday, April 3 - Monday, April 8 - Wednesday, April 10
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds.,
Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section Four, Numbers 4-6, pp.395-407;
Numbers 7(1963 document), pp.403-406; and Numbers 8-16, pp.407-468.
Malcolm X, The Autobiography
of Malcolm X, [Pages to be assigned.]
Film: Freedom on My Mind
(excerpts)
X. BLACK POWER, ZENITH AND DECLINE,
1968-1980.
Monday, April 15 - Wednesday,
April 17
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section
Four, Numbers 17-24, pp.468-508, Section Five, "Introduction,"
pp.511-518 and Numbers 1-3, pp. 519-535.
XI. VISIONS OF RAINBOWS: BLACK AMERICA, 1980-1991.
Monday, April 22 - Wednesday,
April 24
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section
Five, Numbers 4-12, pp.535-601.
John Edgar Wideman. Philadelphia
Fire.
XII. THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT: BLACK AMERICA, 1991-2002.
Monday, April 29 - Wednesday, May 1 - Monday, May 6
Readings:
Marable and Mullings, eds., Let Nobody Turn Us Around, Section
Five, Numbers 13-18, pp.601-633.
Robin D.G. Kelley, Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!
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