NOTE
You must also
study any images that may be present in a reading. (If
there are captions then summarize them in your notes.)
Check if a reading has subheadings; if they are present
use them as a guide to organize your notes. With rare
exception, I will not ask you about dates and names of
places. Instead, what you should concentrate on is the
"what," and the "why," and the implications /
consequences. (E.g. what were the main facts
of, say, the rebellion, why did it occur, and what
were the consequences for society at large.) Where
the reading is an overview of, say, a system (e.g.
slavery) or a major event (e.g. the Civil War) then
identify the main themes and consequences. In case of
definitions, obviously concentrate on the main elements of
the definition. If there are images in the definition,
then study those too. Important: Any reading
assignment written by me should be considered an extension
of class lectures and therefore must take precedence over
other assigned materials.<-- Read this
sentence again. Depending upon how the class proceeds; we may not get through all the topics. So, please don't have a cow. RG-32 Being Black in Nazi Germany (Also available in Packet 2)
1. What is African American Studies?
1(a) Defining African American Studies--> additional sources (packet of readings)
2. Black Studies and Black Professors
3. The History of African American Studies in the U.S. (essay review of a book).
4. A Brief History of A.A.S. at U.B.
5. The Continuing Politics of Survival (African American Studies)
5(a) Why Not Take an African American Studies Class?
5(b) Sociology of Knowledge
6. Slavery--Past and Present (general overview)
7. Enslavement in the U.S.
8. International Slave Trade
8(a) The Zong Slave Ship Case
9. Black Slave Owners (Jamaica)
10. Blacks in Tudor Britain
11. Nat Turner and John Brown
11(a) Free State of Jones (film review)
12. Frederick Douglass (a)
13. Frederick Douglass (b)
14. Henry McNeal Turner
15. Martin R. Delaney
16. Booker T. Washington
17. W.E.B. DuBois
18. Marcus Garvey (a)
19. Marcus Garvey (b)
20. Mary McLeod Bethune
21. Malcolm X--I (Malik el-Shabazz)
22. Malcolm X--II (Debate at Oxford)
23. Charles Hamilton Houston
24. Thurgood Marshall
25. Clarence Thomas-I
25(a) Clarence Thomas-II
25(b) Clarence Thomas-III
26. Anita Hill
27. Ralph Bunche
28. Martin Luther King, Jr.--I (Visit to India)
29. Martin Luther King, Jr.--II (Biography)
29(a) Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Non-Violence (packet of readings)
29(b). MLK's Final Message (Audio)
30. Reconstruction
31. Gertrude Perkins and the Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
32 Niagara Movement (packet of readings)
32(a). Civil Rights Movement (timeline)
32(b) Voting Rights Act (packet of readings)
32(c) A. A. S. Department's Statement on the 40th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act
32(d) African Americans and Voter Suppression: The Russian Angle--I (Russians, social media, and the targeting of African American voters)
32(e) African Americans and Voter Suppression: The Russian Angle--II (Russians, social media, and the targeting of African American voters)
33. Race and Disability
34. Black Feminism
35. Feminism/ Feminist Theory (Overview)
36. Feminist Politics (by bell hooks)
36(a). Black Women and Hair
36(b). Black Feminism--History
36(c) Gender: Eugenics and African Americans
37. Introduction to Feminism (by bell hooks)
38. Race and Gender (by bell hooks)
39. Gender Bias (Student Evaluations)
40. Sexual Violence against the Disabled
41. Music and Misogyny
42. Police Violence against Black Women
43. Sexual Violence and Harassment
44(a). Patriarchy, Intersectionality and the U.S. Prison System
44(b). Prison Industrial Complex
45. Title IX and Civil Rights
45(a). Executive Order 11375 and Title IX
46. Aversive Racism--I
46(a). Aversive Racism--II
47. Racism: Past and Present (Overview)
48. Ideology and Race in U.S. History
49. Metaracism
50. Law as Microagression
51. Race, Terror, and Identity Politics
52. Race and Terrorism in the U.S.
53 Lynching-I (Domestic Terrorism)
54. Lynching-II (Domestic Terrorism) (packet of readings)
54(a). Racial Violence During the Reconstruction Era (EJI Report)
55. Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era
56. Residential Segregation (a)
57. Residential Segregation (b)
58. Colorism and Police Arrests
59. Whiteness and Everyday Racism
59(a). White Privilege (Alternative View)
60. Race, Gender, and Epistemology
61. Race: Theoretical Perspectives
61(a). Why Racism is about the Color of the Mind (link)
61(b) Racism on the Brain (Is a racist brain different from a non-racist brain) (link)
61(c) Understanding the Racist Brain (link)
62. Race and Knowledge Production
63. Black Student Athletes-I Race, Sports, and Education
63(a). Black Student Athletes-II Race, Sports, and Education
63(b). Black Student Athletes-III Race, Sports, and Education
63(c) Black Student Athletes-IV Race, Sports, and Education
64. Loving v. Virginia
65. Neo-Racism (toward international students/scholars)
66. Model Minority (Asian Americans)--Origin of Concept
67. Immigrants and Jobs (Deportation of Mexicans in the 1930s)
68. Immigrants and Immigration
69. Race and Class (Intersectionality)
69(a). MLK and Class Struggle (the struggle against poverty and militarism)
69(b) Race VERSUS Class-I (Letter NEA)
69(c) Race VERSUS Class-II (corrupting democracy: political capture by billionaires)
70. Class and Class Analysis
71. Stratification Theory--I
71(a). Stratification Theory--II
72. Law, Race, and Class (Intersectionality)
72(a) Race and Law: Timeline of Selected Cases and Events
73. Poverty in the U.S. (a)
74. Poverty in the U.S. (b)
75. Education: Stereotype Threat
78. Education: Brown v. Board of Education (packet of readings) Read the Introduction, plus items Four(c) and Five
79. Inequality and Childhood
80. Race, Cinema, and Historical Erasure (Dunkirk)
80(a). Race, Cinema, and Historical Erasure (Darkest Hour)
81. The Cherokee
82. Cherokee and African Americans (Cherokee Freedmen win Court Battle)
83. Great Migration
84. Islamophobia
85. Black Muslims (A Minority within a Minority)
86. Black Ethnics (a) (Afro-Caribbean; Afro-LatinX; Africans; Afro-Canadians; etc.)
87. Black Ethnics (b)
88. Afro-Latina/Latinos (Afro-LatinX) (Comparative Black Studies)
89. Blacks in the Middle East --Ethiopian Jews in Israel (Comparative Black Studies)
90. Blacks in Europe (Comparative Black Studies)
91. Ethnicism in Africa (Identity Politics) (Comparative Black Studies)
92. Race and U.S. Relations with Latin America (Comparative Black Studies)
93. Race and U.S. Foreign Relations (Foundational Knowledge)
93(a) Race and the Cold War--I (Andrew Young)
93(b) Race, Civil Rights, and the Cold War--II
94. Civic Engagement--Protests
95. Shirley Chisholm
96. Barack Obama
97. Michelle Obama
98. Amilcar L. Cabral
99. Julius Nyerere
100. Kwame Nkrumah
101. Nelson Mandela (Timeline--Item no. 9)
102. Educating Black Children
103. Class Notes on Jazz
104. WW I--Black Soldiers face Terrorism after Returning Home
104(a) Blacks, the Military, and Terrorism
105. "Back to Africa" Movements (Identity Politics)
106. Race and Climate Change
106(a). Race and Climate Change
107 Race Riot in Niagara Falls
108 Medical Racism--Race and Access to Healthcare (packet of readings)
109. Identity Politics--I
109(a). Identity Politics--II
109(b) Identity Politics--III
109(c) Importance of Social Diversity
110. "Birth of a Nation" 1915 Film
111. Race, Policing, and the "Broken Windows" Theory
112. Stereotypes in Cinema
113. Hazel Scott: Jazz (Historical Erasure)
