Weekly Course Schedule

Week One – INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION

W – 8/26 Asynchronous Class (Course Email/Intro Doc)

Hwk:

Week Two – ORIGINS: The Challenge of African American Studies

M – 8/31  Aysnchronous Class (A)

Understanding Race (History, Genetics, Social Construct)

Watch Race: the power of an illusion, Episode 1 “The Difference Between Us”, California Newsreel.

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/race-power-illusion-difference-between-us?backlink=https://www.facinghistory.org/books-borrowing/race-power-illusion (use Bypass/Student Link)

or https://youtu.be/OXEV0tqox9k

  • Complete Online DB #1 – Introductions/Response (CUNY Academic Commons/Groups) (DUE W 9/3 11:59PM)

Hwk:

W – 9/2 (Z – Live Session/Zoom)

Discussing syllabus, presentations/Google Doc, Hypothesis, Introductions & Readings,

Hwk:

  • Read M&M S1 #2 – Olaudah Equiano (pp. 9-17)
  • Ira Berlin, “Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America” American Historical Review 85:1 (Feb. 1980), pp. 44-78 [PDF]
  • Sign up for presentations (Google Doc)

Week Three – : ORIGINS: African Heritage and The Atlantic Slave Trade

M-9/7 – NO CLASSES (Labor Day)

W – 9/9 (Live Session| Zoom)

In class –

Watch videos 500 Years of Colonialism and Slave Ship in 3D Video;  Individual Presentations Begin #1 (M&M S1 #2) | Review Berlin Reading.

Hwk:

  • Read M&M S1#3 – #8, pp. 17-46 (Prince Hall, Richard Allen, David Walker, Nat Turner, Slaves Are Prohibited to Read and Write by Law, Maria Stewart)

Week Four – THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: SLAVERY IN THE CARIBBEAN AND COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA

M – 9/14 (A)

  • Catch up on readings: Be sure to finish I. Berlin “Time & Space”; watch videos from W 9/9
  • Attendance DB Post due F 9/18 by 11:59PM – Groups Forum
  • Review Instructor Notes 1 (M&M Prefaces/Introductions)

Hwk: Read: Michael Gomez, “Of Du Bois and Diaspora: The Challenges of African American Studies,” Journal of Black Studies 35:2, pp. 175-194 [PDF].

W – 9/16 | Live Session (Zoom)

Brief Lecture | Sample Presentations #1 (Phillis Wheatley)

Hwk:

  • Read M&M S1#9-13

Week Five – THE SLAVE COMMUNITY: OPPRESSION AND RESISTANCE, 1800-1860

M – 9/21 (A/Office Hours)

Hwk: M&M S1#14-15, 17

W – 9/23  | Live Session (Zoom)

Presentations – #2-5

Hwk: Patricia H. Minter, “‘The State of Slavery’: Somerset, The Slave, Grace, and the Rise of Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery Constitutionalism in the Nineteenth Century Atlantic World.” Slavery and Abolition, 36:4 (2015), pp. 603-617.

Week Six – THE FREE BLACK COMMUNITY: NORTH OF SLAVERY, 1800-1860

M – 9/28 NO CLASSES (College Closed) 

T – 9/29 (Monday Schedule) (A/Office Hours)

  • Watch video: Molefi K. Asante Afrocentric Education https://youtu.be/YVtR71DMpk0
  • Read: Molefi K. Asante “Afrocentricity: Sustaining Africology: On the Creation and Development of A Discipline.” pp. 21-32 http://www.asante.net/articles/1/afrocentricity/
  • Attendance – Make Up Week
    • Complete last week (DB#3’s post)
    • Respond to someone’s Introductory Post/Response to Film (our first DB post)
    • Respond to their introduction and the questions they asked based on:
      • Your personal experience and background
      • Discoveries from Identity wheels
      • Feedback to the Another Slave Narrative film or W.E.B. DuBois podcast/article on Double-Consciousness
    • DUE Fri 10/2 by 11:59PM (AC Groups) (25 pts. and attendance)

       

Hwk: 

  • Read through Group Presentation and Essay Analysis Instructions (updated 093020)
  • Join Hypothesis and review tutorial and guide (Assignments/Group Presentations)
    • Add annotations or page note to one article: Berlin, Gomez, or Asante articles
    • DO NOT ANNOTATE on Minter article.
    • Due by Wednesday 9/30; 

W – 9/30 (Z)

Presentations #3-9 |  Review of articles 

Hwk: Read: M&M S1#19, 21, S2 Intro 

Paper #1 due Fri. Oct. 30 11:59PM (BB/Assignments)

Week Seven – WAR, RECONSTRUCTION, AND REACTION: 1860-1890

M – 10/2 (Z) Live Session 

Presentation #6 | Review Berlin, Gomez and Asante articles

  • Course Recap : Discuss Timeline, Theories and Terms

Hwk: Review P.Minter, “The State of Slavery”, M&M S1#18 + S2#1; read Essay construction handouts; draft outline Essay#1 

W – 10/7 (Z)

Presentations – #7-9 | Minter Reading Group

Hwk: Read M&M S2#2-4; Phillip D. Morgan, “Ending The Slave Trade: A Caribbean and Atlantic Context.” Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa and the Atlantic, ed. Derek R. Peterson, pp. 101-128.[PDF] Outline (Groups/Forum) & Critical Response #1 DUE F 10/16 by 11:59PM (BB) (50pts)

Week Eight – WAR, RECONSTRUCTION, AND REACTION: 1860-1890

M – 10/12 NO CLASSES (College Closed)

Hwk: Read M&M S2#5-7; begin D. Blight, “David Blight, “‘For Something Beyond The Battlefield’: Frederick Douglass and the Struggle for the Memory of The Civil War.” Journal of American History 75:4, pp. 1156-1178. (read 1st 11 pages 1156-middle of 1167)

W – 10/14 *** (College Follows Monday Schedule) |Live Session (Z)

Presentations – #10-12 | Morgan Reading Group

Hwk: Read M&M S2#8-9; remaining David Blight, “‘For Something Beyond The Battlefield’” pp. 1167-1178. and David Blight, ‘”What Will Peace Among The Whites Bring?’: Reunion and Race in the Struggle over the Memory of the Civil War in American Culture.” The Massachusetts Review, 34:3 (1993), pp. 393-410 [PDF]

Outline + Introduction (DB #4/ GROUPS>FORUM) & Critical Response #1 (BB/Assignments DUE F 10/16 by11:59PM

Week Nine – ACCOMODATIONISM VS. REFORM: THE BLACK POPULISTS, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND W. E. B. DUBOIS, 1890-1919

M -10/19 (Z)

Presentation #13 | Blight A & Blight B Reading Groups

Hwk:  M&M S2#10-11; Donald J. Calista, “Booker T. Washington: Another Look.” Journal of Negro History 49:4 (1964) pp. 240-255 [PDF]

 W – 10/21 (Z)

Presentation #18 | Calista  Reading Group

Hwk:

  • DB Post #5 (25 pts) +25 possible EC points for additional review
    • Respond to DB Post #4 (Outline + Intro) for Reading Group Member
    • Give Peer Review feedback (+/-) on outline, suggest alternatives (introduction/conclusion/organization style/evidence)
    • For groups with 3 people (A reviews B/ B reviews C/ C reviews A)
    • Follow this model if someone in 4 member group has not posted
    • DUE Sun 10/25 by 11:59PM GROUPS>FORUM
  • Louis R. Harlan, “Booker T. Washington in Biographical Perspective.” The American Historical Review, 75:6 (1970), pp. 1581-1599

ESSAY #1 DUE FRI 10/30 11:59PM (BB/Assignments)

Week Ten – ACCOMODATIONISM VS. REFORM: THE BLACK POPULISTS, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND W. E. B. DUBOIS, 1890-1919.

M – 10/26 (A)

W – 10/28 (Z)

Presentations 15-16| Harlan Reading Group

Hwk: M&M S2#15-16, S3 Intro, S3#1-2 

ESSAY #1 DUE FRI 10/30 11:59PM (BB/Assignments)

Week Eleven – THE NEW NEGRO AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1919-1941

M – 11/2 (Z)

Presentations 17-19 

Hwk: M&M S3#4-7; Sonia Delgado-Tall Journal of Black Studies 31:3 Special Issue: Africa: New Realities and Hopes (2001), pp. 288-310  

W – 11/4 (Z)

Presentations – #21-24 | Delgado-Tall Reading Group

Hwk: Read: M&M S3#8-12; James Baldwin “Notes of A Native Son” http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/570f15/baldwin.pdf

Week Twelve – WORLD WAR II, COLD WAR, AND THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT, 1941-1960.

M – 11/09 (A)

  • Select an article from 1619 Project to read/analyze
  • Examine archives from Course Website Links 
  • Attendance DB#6
    • Post response/article analysis (1619 Project)
    • discuss research interests | post link to 2 sources
      • DUE Fri 11/13 11:59PM (25 pts) GROUPS>FORUM

Hwk: M&M S3 #13-17

W – 11/11 (Z)

Presentations – #23-25 | Baldwin #A Reading Group

Hwk:  M&M S3#19-20, 21 & S4 Intro, 1-2; James Baldwin “Letters from a Region in My Mind” https://www.newyorker.com/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind

Week Thirteen – FROM “FREEDOM NOW” TO “BLACK POWER”: MALCOLM, MARTIN, AND THE SIXTIES, 1960-1968.

M – 11/16 (A)

Hwk:

  • Watch excerpts: John Lewis & Freedom Riders | Black Power Mixtape

  • Read Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X pp. 10-26 [PDF]

  • Critical Response #2 DUE Fri 11/19 11:59PM (BB/Assignments)

Hwk: M&M S4 #3-4, 6-7

W – 11/18 (Z)

Presentations – #26-28 | Baldwin #B Reading Group

Hwk: M&M S4#9-18; Watch Soul: A conversation between Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin (1971) https://youtu.be/eZmBy7C9gHQ

Week Fourteen – BLACK POWER, ZENITH AND DECLINE, 1968-1980

M – 11/23 (Z)***

Presentations – #29-32 | Giovanni/Baldwin Group

Hwk: Work on Multimodal Project; Read M&M S4#19, 21, 23; S5#1-2, 3-7, 9-10; Begin Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic, June 2014

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

W – 11/25 NO CLASSES 

Multimodal Project Due Tues 12/8 11:59PM

Week Fifteen – FEMINISM, THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT: BLACK AMERICA, 1991 TO THE PRESENT

M – 11/30 (Z)***

Presentations  #33-37

Hwk: Read M&M S4#14-19, 21, 23; S5 #1-2; 3-5; 

W – 12/2 (Z)

Presentations #38-40

Hwk: Read M&M S5#11, 13-15, 15, 16-18, 20; Finish reading Coates The Atlantic article; Multimodal Project Due Tues 12/8 11:59PM

Week Sixteen – MULTIMODAL PRESENTATIONS | COURSE REVIEW

M 12/7 (Z)

Presentations #40-42 | Coates Reading Group

W – 12/9 (Z) LAST DAY OF CLASS

Multimodal Presentations | Course Review

FINAL EXAM

Wed. 12/16

Blackboard by 11:59PM

***Alternate Schedule/Live Zoom Session

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