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PART I - SLAVERY
How did skin color come to mean so much? What was life in West Africa like prior to the expansion of the Atlantic slave trade? How did the slave trade develop? How was it justified? What was the Middle Passage? How was slavery different in the Chesapeake, the low country, and the North? How did the Founding Fathers deal with slavery? Why did the North and South become so bitterly divided over slavery? How did African Americans liberate themselves during the Civil War?
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| Aug. 18 (R) |
Introductions
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| Aug. 23 (T) |
Emancipation I
Reading: none
Discussion: Slavery Acquires a Color
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| Aug. 25 (R) |
Emancipation II
Reading: Lawrence W. Levine, "The Animal Trickster" (pdf); Accounts of slavery: Stroyer | Henson | Spicers |
Clarke | Roper |
Garner |
Discussion: Slave Life
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| Aug. 30 (T) |
Emancipation III
Reading: Selection from Uncle Tom's Cabin (html); Frederick Douglass narrative (html); Harriet Jacobs narrative (html); What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (html)
Discussion: Narratives of Freedom
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| Sept. 1 (R) |
Emancipation IV
Reading: From Slavery to Freedom, Chapter 11, "The Civil War" (pdf) or Africans in America, "The Civil War" (html)
Discussion: Self-liberation and the Civil War
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PART II - FREEDOM
How did ex-slaves define their freedom? Why did Reconstruction fail? What are the psychological dynamics of segregation and racial violence? How did African Americans resist white supremacy?
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| Sept. 6 (T)
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Reconstruction I
Reading: William Barney, "Crisis of Reconstruction, pt. 1
Discussion: A Nation Under Our Feet
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| Sept. 8 (R)
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Reconstruction II
Reading: William Barney, "Crisis of Reconstruction, pt. 2; Odyssey, chapter 14, pp. 308-18; Plessy v. Ferguson Decision (html and pdf)
Discussion: Reconstruction Rollback
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| Sept. 13 (T)
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Segregation I
Reading: Odyssey, chapter 14, pp. 319-31; The Waco Horror, A Report on a Lynching (html and pdf); Strange Fruit (html)
Discussion: Lynching and Racial Violence
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| Sept. 15 (R) |
Segregation II
Reading: Odyssey, chapter 16; Speech at the Atlanta Exposition (html); Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others (html)
Discussion: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
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| Sept. 20 (T)
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Black Culture, 1920-1945
Reading: Odyssey, chapter 17;
Harlem Renaissance readings 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |;
Du Bois on Double Consciousness (html)
Discussion: WWI, Jazz, and the Harlem Renaissance
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| Sept. 22 (R)
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Black Culture, 1920-1945
Reading: Odyssey, chapter 18
Discussion: The Scottsboro Boys
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| Sept. 27 (T)
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FIRST EXAM
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PART III - EQUALITY
How did World War II affect African Americans? What were the ideologies, objectives, and tactics of the major civil rights organizations and their leaders? What were the major sucesses and failures of the freedom movement? How would you characterize contemporary race relations?
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| Sept. 29 (R)
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Eyes on the Prize I
Reading: Sitkoff, chapter 2; begin reading Beals, Warriors Don't Cry
Discussion: Origins of a Movement
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| Oct. 4 (T) |
Eyes on the Prize II
Reading: Beals, Warriors Don't Cry
Discussion: IN CLASS WRITING ASSIGNMENT
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| Oct. 6 (R) |
Eyes on the Prize III
Reading: Beals, Warriors Don't Cry
Discussion: Orval Faubus and the Little Rock Nine
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| Oct. 11 (T) |
Eyes on the Prize IV
Reading: Sitkoff, chapters 3 & 4; start reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Discussion: The Sit Ins
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| Oct. 13 (R) |
NO CLASS / FALL BREAK
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| Oct. 18 (T) |
Eyes on the Prize V
Reading: Sitkoff, chapter 5; Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (html) and "I Have a Dream" (html)
Discussion: Birmingham
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| Oct. 20 (R) |
Black Power I
Reading: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Discussion: IN-CLASS WRITING ASSIGNMENT
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| Oct. 25 (T)
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Black Power II
Reading: Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet" (html)
Discussion: Malcolm X
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| Oct. 27 (R)
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NO CLASS / LIBRARY ASSIGNMENT
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| Nov. 1 (T) |
Black Power III
Reading: Martin Luther King, Jr. "Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam" (html)
Discussion: Vietnam and Muhammad Ali
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| Nov. 3 (R)
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NO CLASS / SHA
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| Nov. 8 (T) |
Black Power IV
Reading: Stokely Carmichael, "Project Detroit Speech" (html); Sitkoff, chapters 6 & 7; Pogo cartoon (jpg)
Discussion: The Heirs of X
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| Nov. 10 (R)
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Modern Black America I
Reading: Sitkoff, chapter 8
Discussion: Black Politics
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| Nov. 15 (T)
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Modern Black America II
Reading: "Why Blacks Love Bill Clinton" (html); "Bill Clinton, Soul Brother?" (html); "A Black President?" (html); "Michael Jackson at 40" (html); "The Rap on Rap" (html)
Discussion: Color and Culture
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| Nov. 17 (R) |
Modern Black America III
Reading: "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" (pdf)
Discussion: Where Are We Now?
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PART IV - NEGLECTED CHAPTERS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
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| Nov. 22 (T)
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Neglected Chapters in African American History I
Chapter One: Emmitt Till
Chapter Two: African-American Baseball
Chapter Three: Harlem Renaissance
Chapter Four: Fred Hampton
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| Nov. 24 (R) |
NO CLASS / HAPPY THANKSGIVING
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| Nov. 29 (T)
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Neglected Chapters in African American History II
Chapter Five: Oprah
Chapter Six: Wilmington Race Riot
Chapter Seven: Black Nationalism
Chapter Eight: Garveyism
Chapter Nine: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
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| Dec. 1 (R)
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Neglected Chapters in African American History III
Chapter Ten: Forgotten Jazz World
Chapter Eleven: African-American Entertainers
Chapter Twelve: Thurgood Marshall
Chapter Thirteen: Evolution of Rap Music
Chapter Fourteen: Anti-Miscegenation Laws
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| Dec. 6 (T)
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FINAL EXAM (2:00-4:00)
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