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Mon, Jan. 31-Sun, Feb. 6
Week 1:
Week 1:
Introductions
Introductions
Read: Orientation Module Materials
Attend: Live Class Orientation T. 2/1 10-11am or W. 2/2 3-4pm
Complete:
Autobiographical Digital Presentation Due SAT. 2/5, Peer Replies due SUN. 2/6
Week 2:
Week 2:
Oral Tradition
Oral Tradition
Read: TBD
View/Listen: Selected Folktales
Complete: Reading Activity #1
Sat, Feb. 5-Sun, Feb. 13
Note: Feb. 14 is the last day to drop for a full refund and no "W"
Sat, Feb. 12-Sun, Feb. 20
"But, O my soul, sink not into despair,
Virtue is near thee, and with gentle hand
Would now embrace thee, hovers o’er thine head."
― Philils Wheatley
Week 3:
Week 3:
Literature of Africa, the Middle Passage, and Slavery: 1746-1830
Literature of Africa, the Middle Passage, and Slavery: 1746-1830
Read:
Literature of Africa, the Middle Passage, and Slavery Introduction
Lucy Terry "Bars Fight"
Phillis Wheatley selected poems
Jupiter Hammon "An Adress to Miss Phillis Wheatley..."
David Walker Extracts from "Appeal in Four Articles..."
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #2
Week 4:
Week 4:
Literature of Slavery & Freedom: 1830-1865
Literature of Slavery & Freedom: 1830-1865
Read:
Literature of Slavery & Freedom Introduction
Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the LIfe of a Slave Girl
View/Listen:
James Earl Jones perform Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July"
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #3
Sat, Feb. 19-Sun, Feb. 27
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
― Frederick Douglass
Sat, Feb. 26-Sun, Mar. 6
“We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here.”
― Sojourner Truth
Week 5:
Week 5:
The Literatures of Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, & the "New Negro:" 1865-1920,
Part 1
The Literatures of Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, & the "New Negro:" 1865-1920,
Part 1
Read:
Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, & "The New Negro" Introduction
Elizabeth Keckley "Behind the Scenes"
Charles Chesnutt "Uncle Wellington's Wives"
View/Listen:
Kerry Washington's reading of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #4
Black History Month Assignment due Sunday, 3/6
Week 6:
Week 6:
The Literatures of Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, & the "New Negro:" 1865-1920, Part 2
The Literatures of Reconstruction, Racial Uplift, & the "New Negro:" 1865-1920, Part 2
Read:
Frances E.W. Harper: "Aunt Chloe," "The Deliverance," "Aunt Chloe's Politics," "Learning to Read," "Church Building," and "The Reunion"
Anna Julia Cooper: Extract from A Voice in the South--Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race
Booker T. Washington: Extract from Up from Slavery--CH 14 "The Atlanta Exposition Address"
Ida B. Wells: exerpts from "The Red Record" and Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases"
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #5
Sat, Mar. 5-Sun, Mar. 13
Note: Mar. 12 is the last day to apply for Spring 2021 graduation
"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."
― Booker T. Washington
Sat, Mar. 12-Sun, Mar. 20
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
― W.E.B. Du Bois
Week 7:
Week 7:
"The New Negro" Renaissance: 1920-1940, Part 1
"The New Negro" Renaissance: 1920-1940, Part 1
Read:
"The New Negro" Renaissance Introduction
Claude McKay selected poems
Countee Cullen selected poems
W.E.B. Du Bois "The New Negro"
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #6
Peer Review #1
Week 8:
Week 8:
"The New Negro" Renaissance: 1920-1940, Part 2
"The New Negro" Renaissance: 1920-1940, Part 2
Read:
Langston Hughes: "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" and selected poems
Dorothy West: "The Typewriter"
Zora Neale Hurston: "The Back Room" and "How it Feels to be Colored Me"
Sterling A. Brown: "Odyssey of Big Boy," "When de Saints go Ma'ching Home," "Southern Road," "Memphis Blues," "Ma Rainey," "Tin Roof Blues," "Cabaret," "Salutmus," "To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden"
Richard Wright: "Blueprint for Negro Writing"
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #7
Celebration of Knowledge #1 (literature to 1940) due SUN. 3/27
Sat, Mar. 19-Sun, Mar. 27
"I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions."
― Zora Neale Hurston
Mon, Mar. 28-Sun, Apr. 3
Week 9:
Week 9:
Spring Break
Spring Break
No reading or assignments due. However, please do get a good jump on reading Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, as we will be diving straight into the novel after break. You will need to read the Introduction, Prologue, and chapters 1-11 by the end of Week 10.
Week 10:
Week 10:
Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960, Part 1
Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960, Part 1
Read:
"Realism, Naturalism, Modernism" Introduction
Ralph Ellison: Intro, Prologue, CH 1-11
Gwendolyn Brooks
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #8
Sat, Apr. 2-Sun, Apr. 10
"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might have been said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
― Ralph Ellison
Sat, Apr. 9-Sun, Apr. 17
"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."
― James Baldwin
Week 11:
Week 11:
Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960, Part 2
Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960, Part 2
Read:
Ralph Ellison CH 12-18
Robert Hayden
Ann Petry
James Baldwin
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #9
Week 12:
Week 12:
Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960, Part 3
Realism, Naturalism, Modernism: 1940-1960, Part 3
Read:
Ralph Ellison: CH 19-end, epilogue
Lorraine Hansberry
Margaret Walker
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #10
Peer Review #2(Rough Draft Extended to W, 5/4 and Peer Review Extended to SAT, 5/7)
Sat, Apr. 16-Sun, Apr. 24
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
― Lorraine Hansberry
Sat, Apr. 23-Sun, May 1
Note: May 2 is the last day to drop the class with a "W" (Withdraw)
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
― Martin Luther King, Jr.
Week 13:
Week 13:
Nationalism, Militancy, & The Black Arts Era: 1960-1975, Part 1
Nationalism, Militancy, & The Black Arts Era: 1960-1975, Part 1
Read:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Amiri Baraka
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #11
Peer Review #2: Rough Draft NOW DUE W, 5/4 & Peer Review NOW DUE SAT, 5/7
Invisible Man Group Project
due SUN. 5/1(Extended to MON, 5/9)
Week 14:
Week 14:
Nationalism, Militancy, & The Black Arts Era: 1960-1975, Part 2
Nationalism, Militancy, & The Black Arts Era: 1960-1975, Part 2
Read:
Lucille Clifton
Michael S. Harper
Sonia Sanchez
June Jordan
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #12
Invisible Man Group Project NOW DUE MON. 5/9
Sat, April 30-Sun, May 8
"What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else."
― Lucille Clifton
Sat, May 7-Sun, May 15
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
― Audre Lorde
Week 15:
Week 15:
The Contemporary Period: 1975-Present, Part 1
The Contemporary Period: 1975-Present, Part 1
Read:
Ntokake Schange
Alice Walker
Audre Lorde
Octavia Butler
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Spoken Word of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #13
Week 16:
Week 16:
The Contemporary Period: 1975-Present, Part 2
The Contemporary Period: 1975-Present, Part 2
Read:
Toni Morrison
Rita Dove
August Wilson
Jamaica Kincaid
View/Listen:
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #14
Peer Review #2
Sat, May 14-Sun, May 22
"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."
― Toni Morrison
Sat, May 21-Sun, May 29
"You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise."
― Maya Angelou
Week 17:
Week 17:
The Contemporary Period: 1975-Present, Part 3
The Contemporary Period: 1975-Present, Part 3
Read:
Ernest J. Gaines
Suzan-Lori Parks
Walter Mosely
Charles R. Johnson
View/Listen:
Maya Angelou poetry readings
Music of the era
Complete:
Reading Activity #15
Celebration of Knowledge Assignment #2 (1940-present) DUE SUN. 5/29
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