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AFAM 162

African American History: From Emancipation to the Present (2010)

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2010

Topics

  • Dawn of Freedom
  • Dawn of Freedom (continued)
  • Reconstruction
  • Reconstruction (continued)
  • Uplift, Accommodation, and Assimilation
  • Uplift, Accommodation, and Assimilation (continued)
  • Migration and Urbanization
  • Migration and Urbanization (continued)
  • The New Negroes
  • The New Negroes (continued)
  • Depression and Double V
  • Depression and Double V (continued)
  • The Road to Brown and Little Rock
  • From Sit-Ins to Civil Rights
  • From Sit-Ins to Civil Rights (continued)
  • From Voting Rights to Watts
  • From Voting Rights to Watts (continued)
  • Black Power
  • Black Power (continued)
  • The Politics of Gender and Culture
  • The Politics of Gender and Culture (continued)
  • Public Policy and Presidential Politics
  • Public Policy and Presidential Politics (continued)
  • Who Speaks for the Race?
  • Who Speaks for the Race? (continued)

Readings

  • Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time . New York: Dial Press, 1963.
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  • Bates, Beth. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Black Protest Politics . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. Ford, Richard Thompson. The Race Card . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Hunter, Tera. To 'Joy My Freedom . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. Malcolm X and George Breitman. Malcolm X Speaks . New York: Grove Press, 1990. Marable, Manning and Leith Mullings. Let Nobody Turn Us Around . 2nd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. Shange, Ntozake. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Was Enuf . New York: Macmillan, 1977. Tuttle, William. Race Riot . Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1970. Vogel, Shane. The Scene of Harlem Cabaret . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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  • Articles
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  • Brown, Elsa Barkley. "Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke." Signs 14 (1989): 610-633. Reprinted in Malson, Micheline R., ed. Black Women in America: Social Science Perspectives . University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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  • Cleaver, Kathleen. “Women, Power, and Revolution.” Liberation, Imagination and the Black Panther Party. Routledge, 2001.
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  • Collins, Patricia Hill. “The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought.” Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge, 2008.
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  • Davis, Angela. “Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights.” Women, Race & Class. Vintage Books, 1981.
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  • Hill, Anita. “The Smear This Time.” Opinion, New York Times, October 2, 2007.
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  • Kelley, R. D. G. "We are not what we seem": Rethinking Black working-class opposition in the Jim Crow South. The Journal of American History (1993), 80 (1).
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  • King, Martin Luther Jr. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” open letter written April 16, 1963. Published by Liberation: An Independent Monthly. June, 1963.
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  • McBride, Dwight A. “Can the Queen Speak? Racial Essentialism, Sexuality, and the Problem of Authority.” Callaloo, Vol. 21, No. 2, Emerging Male Writers: A Special Issue, Part II. Spring, 1998.
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  • McGuire, Danielle L. “It Was like All of Us Had Been Raped”: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle. The Journal of American History (2004) 91(3).
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  • Nadasen, Premilla. “Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights.” Feminist Studies. June 22, 2002.
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  • Ransby, Barbara. “Behind the Scenes View of a Behind the Scenes Organizer.” Sisters in Struggle: Invisible Black Women in the Civil Rights Movement 1945–1970. ed. Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin. Routledge, 1996.
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  • Ransby, Barbara. “Fear of a Black Feminist Planet.” Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black Struggle. ed. Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor. New York University Press, 2000.
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  • Tyson, Timothy B. "Robert F. Williams: 'Black Power' and the Roots of the African American Freedom Struggle." The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement. ed. Susan M. Glisson. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
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  • Films
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  • Ethnic Notions, directed by Marlon Riggs. Signifyin' Works, 1986.
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  • 4 Little Girls , directed by Spike Lee. 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks and Home Box Office (HBO), 1997.
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