Syllabus

Schedule (This is a work in progress. We are co-writing the syllabus as we grow and learn and push forward with each week.)

 

Week 1 (August 29): Introductions & Co-Designing the Course

 

 

Week 2 (Sep 8): Black Radical Syllabi

READ: #Formation (#BlackLivesMatter syllabus)

#FergusonSyllabus

#BaltimoreSyllabus

Trump Syllabus 2.0

Excerpt from Aldon Morris, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology (2015), Preface & Introduction

 

Week 3 (Sep 15): More Introductory Readings

READ: Excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Chs. 1 & 2

Excerpt from W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction (1935), Ch. 1 & Ch. 17

Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for ReparationsThe Atlantic (2014)

Excerpt from Angela Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle (2016), Introduction, Chs. 1 & 2

 

 

Week 4 (Sep 22): The New Jim Crow

READ: Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, Introduction & Ch. 1

Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors (1892)

 

 

Week 5 (Sep 29): The New Jim Crow

READ: Alexander, The New Jim Crow, Chs. 2 & 3

Excerpt from Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness (2011), Introduction

Madison Van Oort, “Shut It Down!” Mask Magazine, December 2015

 

 

Week 6 (Oct 6): The New Jim Crow

READ: Alexander, The New Jim Crow, Chs. 4 & 5

James Baldwin, “My Dungeon Shook,” from The Fire Next Time (1963)

Excerpt from Stokely Carmichael & Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America (1967), Preface and Ch. 2

 

 

Week 7 (Oct 13): The New Jim Crow

READ: Alexander, The New Jim Crow, Ch. 6

James Forman, Jr. “Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow” New York University Law Review (2012)

 

 

*FALL BREAK (Oct 17-21)*

 

 

Week 8 (Oct 27): #BlackLivesMatter Poetry Slam!

EVENT: Poetry Slam event, Thursday, October 27, evening @ The Cavern

 

 

Week 9 (Nov 3): From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

READ: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, Introduction & Ch. 1

Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism” (1981)

 

 

Week 10 (Nov 10): From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

READ: Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter, Ch. 2 & 3

June Jordan, “Report from the Bahamas” (1982)

 

 

Week 11 (Nov 17): From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

READ: Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter, Ch. 4 & 5

Other readings TBD

 

 

*THANKSGIVING BREAK (Nov. 24)*

 

 

Week 12 (Dec 1): From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

READ: Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter, Ch. 6 & 7

Other readings TBD

 

EVENT: Final event either this week or next, date/time/location TBD

 

 

Week 13 (8): Next Steps