The Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies
The Claremont Colleges
Professors Dipannita Basu (Dbasu@Pitzer.edu)
and Halford Fairchild (Hfairchild@Pitzer.edu)
Office Hours:
Basu – 215 Broad Center. Tu-Th 2:00 – 3:00 and by appointment. X
7-2833
Fairchild – 203 Scott Hall. Tu-Th 10:00 – 11:00 and by appointment.
X 7-3056
Course Web Page: http://bernard.pitzer.edu/~hfairchi/courses/id10F2000/
Texts: Basu, D., & Fairchild, H.H. (Eds.). (2000). Introduction to Africana Studies: An Interdisciplinary Chronology. Claremont, CA: The Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies. [Numbers in brackets and bold, refer to stamped page numbers in the Basu & Fairchild reader.]
Haley, Alex. (1976). Roots. NY: Bantam Books.
Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings.
Chideya, Farai. (1995). Don’t Believe the Hype. NY: Penguin.
Synopsis and Objectives: This course provides a broad introduction to the field of Africana Studies (also known as Black Studies, Pan-African Studies, African American Studies, etc.). It does so by organizing the material chronologically (beginning in ancient African history) and seeks a "trans-disciplinary" approach in the presentation. Within each historical epoch, contributions from literature, the arts, philosophy, social science, and other disciplines are incorporated. Our objective is to demonstrate the breadth and depth of Africana Studies and to provide the historical underpinnings of the field so that we can understand its past and chart a direction for its future. The course is writing (with weekly papers) and speaking intensive. This course is based on a conceptual model of the entirety of the Africana Studies curriculum. To view this model, click here. Attendance is required. Grading (click here). For an annotated copy of this syllabus, click here!
Weekly Assignments: 8/30 9/6 9/13 9/20 9/27 10/4 10/11 10/18 10/25 11/1 11/8 11/15 11/22 11/29 12/6
Chideya, Farai. (1995). Chapters 1 and 2 (pp. 3-19 in Don’t Believe
the Hype. NY: Penguin. [text]
Week 2: September 6: What is Black Studies: Origins, Scope, Subsequent Developments
Swindell, Warren. (1997). Notes on Administration of Africana Studies Departments and programs. Chapter 2 (pp. 16-29) in Conyers, James L., Jr. (Ed.), Africana Studies: A disciplinary quest for both theory and method. London: McFarland and company. [7-13]
Baker, Houston A. Black Studies: A new story. Chapter 3 (pp. 29-44) in Conyers, James L., Jr. (Ed.), Africana Studies: A disciplinary quest for both theory and Method. London: McFarland and company. [13-21]
Kelley, Robin D.G. (1997). Introduction: Looking B(L)ackward: African-American
Studies in the age of identity politics. Chapter 1, pp. 1-16 in Judith
Jackson Fossett & Jeffrey A. Tucker (Eds.), Race consciousness.
NY: New York University Press. [22-33]
Karenga, Maulana (1993). Black History (chapter 2.1 – 2.3). Pp., 69-108 in Introduction to Black Studies. Los Angeles, CA: University of Sankore Press. [45-65]
Fryer, Peter. (1984). 'Those kinde of people.' Chapter 1 (pp. 1-13) in Staying power: The history of Black people in Britain. London: Pluto Press. [66-72]
Shepherd, Verene, A. (1999). Indigenous Caribbean women. Chapter 1 (pp. 1-19) in Women in Caribbean women history. Oxford: James Curry. [73-82]
Williams, Eric. (1994). The origin of Negro slavery. Chapter 1 of
Capitalism
and Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. [83-96]
Week 4: September 20: Enslavement and the construction of race.
Jordan, Winthrop D. (1999). First impressions: Initial English confrontation with Africans. Pp. 66-69 in Martin Bulmer & John Solomos (Eds.), Racism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [100-101]
Jordan, Winthrop D. (1999/1962) American Chiaroscuro: The status and definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies. Pp. 101-117 in Edward Countryman (ed.), How did slavery begin. Boston: Bedford/St Martin’s Press. [102-112]
Williams, Eric. (1994). The development of the Negro slave trade. Chapter 2 of Capitalism and Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. [113-123]
Magnis, Nicholas E. (1999). Thomas Jefferson and slavery: an analysis of his racist thinking as revealed by his writings and political behavior. Journal of Black Studies, 29(4), 491-509. [124-133]
Douglass, Frederick. (1845/1960/1988). Chapters 1 and 2 (pp. 23-38) of Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American slave: Written by himself. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [134-142]
Truth, Sojouner. (1996, reprinted). ‘Address to the first annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association.’ Pp. 28-30 in Donalson, Melvin (Ed.), Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature. New York: St. Martin's Press. [143-144]
Douglass, Frederick. (1852/1996). ‘What to the slave is the fourth of July.’ Pp 30-34 in Donalson, Melvin (Ed.), Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature. New York: St. Martin's Press. [144-146]
Wheatley, Phyllis. Selected poems. Pp. 123-4 in Donalson, Melvin
(Ed.), Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature
(1996) New York: St. Martin's Press. [147-148]
Week 5: September 27: Black resistance to slavery and oppression.
Davis, Angela. (1997). Reflections on the Black woman’s role in the community of slaves. Pp. 109-122 in Floyd W. Hayes, III (Ed.), A turbulent voyage: Readings in African American Studies (Second edition). Collegiate Press. [159-166]
Fryer, Peter. (1984). ‘Resistance and self emancipation’ (pp. 203-236) in Staying power: The history of Black people in Britain. London: Pluto Press. [167-184]
Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick. (1999/2000). Haiti. http://www.africana.com/tt_386.htm[185-197]
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DuBois, W.E.B. (1903/1996). ‘Of Mr Booker T. Washington and Others. Pp. 558-565 in Donalson, Melvin (Ed.), Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature (1996) New York: St. Martin's Press. [204-207]
DuBois, W.E.B. (1920/1996). The Souls of White folk. Pp 578-588 in Donalson, Melvin (Ed.), Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature (1996) New York: St. Martin's Press. [208-213]
Washington, Booker T. (1996). Up from slavery (excerpts). Pp. 632-648 in Donalson, Melvin (Ed.), Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature (1996) New York: St. Martin's Press. [214-222]
Vendryes, Margaret Rose. (1997). Hanging on their walls: An art commentary on lynching, the forgotten 1935 art exhibition. Chapter 9, pp. 153-176 in Judith Jackson Fossett & Jeffrey A. Tucker (Eds.), Race consciousness. NY: New York University Press. [223-235]
Johnson, Charles. (1995). The Negro renaissance and its significance. Pp. 206-218 in David Levering Lewis (Ed.), The portable Harlem Renaissance reader. NY: Penguin Books. [236-242]
Larsen, Nella. (1995). Passing (Excerpt.) Pp. 460-485 in David Levering Lewis (Ed.), The portable Harlem Renaissance reader. NY: Penguin Books. [243-255]
Langston Hughes. (1965). Not colored. Pp. 121-123 in Simple’s
Uncle Sam. NY: Hill & Wang. [256-257]
Week 7: October 11: Black Resistance: Black Nationalism to Garveyism and PanAfricanism
Wilson, Amos N. (1999). Historical overview of Marcus Garvey. Introduction (pp. 13-40) in Afrikan-centered consciousness versus the new world order: Garveyism in the age of globalism. NY: Afrikan World InfoSystems. [270-284]
Stuckey, Sterling. (1998). The cultural philosophy of Paul Robeson. Chapter 3 (pp. 23-36) in James L. Conyers, Jr., & Alva P. Barnett (Film: The Road to Brown Eds.), African American sociology. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers. [285-292]
Alkalimat, Abdul. (1986). Marxism and black liberation, chapter 16 pp. 319 – 343 in Abdul Alkalimat & Associates, Introduction to Afro-American Studies: A Peoples College primer. Chicago: Twenty-first Century Books and Publications. [293-305]
Lubiano, Wahneema. (1997). Black nationalism and Black common sense: Policing ourselves and others. Pp. 232-252 in Wahneema Lubiano (Ed.), The house that race built: Black Americans, U.S. terrain. NY: Pantheon Books. [306-316]
Week 8: October 18: Black Resistance: The Civil Rights movement/Decolonization/black power
Fanon, Frantz. (1999, reprinted). The wretched of the Earth. Pp. 116-120 in Martin Bulmer & John Solomos (Eds.), Racism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [339-341]
Cabral, Amilcar ‘National Liberation and culture’ (Chapter 3 p 53-65) in Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman (Eds.), Colonial discourse and Post-colonial theory: A reader. NY: Columbia University Press. [342-348]
King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1963/1997). Letter from Birmingham City jail. Pp. 537-547 in Floyd W. Hayes, III (Ed.), A turbulent voyage: Readings in African American Studies (Second edition). Collegiate Press. [349-354]
Klinkner, Philip,A. and Smith, Rogers, M. (1999). ‘There comes a time’ (chapter 8, pp. 242 –287), in The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America Chicago; Chicago university Press. [355-377]
Rawlings, J.J. (2000). Sankofa, the Healers’ Journey. Psych Discourse,
31(8), 4-7. [378-381]
Week 9: October 25: Black Cultural workers and cultural works: Literature, Film, Theatre and Dance
Achebe, Chinua. (1994). The African writer and the English language. Pp. 428-434 in Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman (Eds.), Colonial discourse and Post-colonial theory: A reader. NY: Columbia University Press. [392-395]
Dyson, Michael Eric. (1995). Spike’s Malcolm. Pp. 129-134 in Making Malcolm: The myth and meaning of Malcolm X. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [396-404]
Turner, Patricia A. (1994). Of primates, porters and potables: images of Africa on screen. Pp. 182-205 in Ceramic uncles and celluloid mammies: Black images and their influence on culture. NY: Bantam. [405-416]
Neal, Larry (1997) ‘The Black Arts Movement’ Pp. 251-260 in Floyd W. Hayes, III (Ed.), A turbulent voyage: Readings in African American Studies (Second edition). Collegiate Press. [417-422]
Diawara, Manthia (1993) Black Studies, cultural studies: performative acts. Chapter 19, pp. 262-267 in Cameron McCarthy and Warren Crichlow (Eds.), Race identity representation in education. NY: Routledge [423-425]
Chideya, Farai. (1995). Chapters 18 pp. 241-254 in Don’t Believe
the Hype. NY: Penguin. [text]
Related Links: Black Arts Movement Sonia Sanches Quotes
Malcolm X research site
Chideya, Farai. (1995). Chapters 3 and 4 (pp. 3-19 in Don’t Believe the Hype. NY: Penguin. [text]
Loury, Glenn. (1997). The Black family: A critical challenge. Pp. 381-389 in Floyd W. Hayes, III (Ed.), A turbulent voyage: Readings in African American Studies (Second edition). Collegiate Press. [435-439]
Reynolds, Tracey. (1997). (mis)Representing the black (super) women. Pp 97-112 in Heidi Safia Mirza (Ed.), Black British feminism: A reader. London: Routledge. [440-448]
Mamiya, Lawrence. (1999/2000). The Black Church, parts I and II. Africana.com. http://www.Africana.com/tt_443.htm and http://www.Africana.com/tt_443_2.htm [449-460]
Matory, J. Lorand. (1999/2000). Religions, African and Afro-Caribbean,
in the United States, Parts I, II, and III. Africana.com. http://www.Africana.com/tt_496.htm,
http://www.Africana.com/tt_496_2.htm,
and http://www.Africana.com/tt_496_3.htm.
[461-463]
Basu, D. (1998). ‘What’s real about keeping it real.’ Post Colonial Studies, 1(3), 371-387. [479-495]
Chideya, Farai. (1995). Chapters 11 and 22, pp. 140-163 in Don’t Believe the Hype. NY: Penguin. [text]
Boyd, Todd (1997) ‘True to the game: basketball as the embodiment of Blackness in contemporary popular culture. Chapter 5 (pp. 105-127) in Am I Black enough for you: popular culture from the ‘hood and beyond Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [496-507]
Cleaver, Eldridge. (1968, 1991). Lazarus, come forth. Pp. 108-121 in Soul on Ice. NY: Dell Publishing. [508-514]
Fared, Grant (1998). ‘Wailin’ Soul’ Reggae’s debt to Black American music’ Chapter 5, pp 56-74 in Monique Guillory and Richard C. Green (Eds.), Soul: Black power, politics and pleasure. NY: New York University Press. [515-523]
Davis, Angela Y. (1998). Afro images: Politics, fashion, and nostalgia. Pp. 23-31 in Monique Guillory & Richard C. Green (Eds). Soul: Black power, politics, and pleasure. NY: New York University Press. [524-528]
Jones, Lisa. (1994). The signifying monkees. Pp. 229-245 in Bulletproof diva: Tales of race, sex, and hair. NY: Anchor Books. [529-537]
Lyrics from by Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott Heron, Public Enemy, Queen
Latifah LK Johnson, Bob Marley [538-545]
Week 12: November 15: Black women, Black men and Black sexuality
Collins, Patricia Hill. (1990). The sexual politics of Black womanhood. (reprinted.) Chapter 31 (pp. 255-271) in Estelle Disch (Ed.), Reconstructing gender: A multicultural anthology (2nd edition). Mountainview, CA: Mayfield Publishing Co. [552-560]
Mama, Amina. (1993). Black women and the police: A place where law is not upheld. Pp. 135-151 in Winston James & Clive Harris (Ed.), Inside Babylon: The Caribbean diaspora in Britain. London: Verso. [561-569]
Brandt, Allan. M (1978). Racism and Research: the case of the Tuskegee syphilis study. Pp. 302-313 in David M. Newman (Ed.), Sociology: Exploring the architecture of everyday life. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press. [570-575]
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (1996). Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man. Pp. 11-23 in John Arthur & Amy Shapiro (Eds.), Color, class identity: The new politics of race. Boulder, CO: Westview. [576-582]
Kelley, Robin (1998) Confessions of a nice negro, or why I shaved my head.’ Pp. 337-344 in Naomi Zack, Laurie Shrage, & Crispin Sartwell (Eds.), Race, class, gender and sexuality: The big questions. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. [583-587]
Hughes, Langston. (1965). Haircuts and Paris. Pp. 63-65 in Simple’s Uncle Sam. NY: Hill & Wang [588-589]
Week 13: November 22: Contemporary Debates in Black Studies.
Mazrui, Ali A. (2000). A preliminary critique of the TV series by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Black Scholar, 30(1), 5-6.
Soyinka, Wole. (2000). Ali Mazrui and Skip Gates’ Africa series. The Black Scholar, 30(1), 7.
Asante, Molefi Kete. (2000). "Wonders of the African world": A Eurocentric enterprise. The Black Scholar, 30(1), 8-9.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (2000). A preliminary response to Ali Mazrui’s preliminary critique of "Wonders of the African world." The Black Scholar, 30(1), 10-14.
Mazrui, Ali A. (2000). Black orientalism? Further reflections on "Wonders of the African world." The Black Scholar, 30(1), 15-18.
Jeyifo, Biodun. (2000). On Mazrui’s "Black orientalism": A cautionary critique. The Black Scholar, 30(1), 19-22.
Kilson, Martin. (2000). Master of the intellectual dodge: A reply to Henry Louis Gates. The Black Scholar, 30(1), 23-29.
Inikori, Joseph. (2000). "Wonders of the Afircan world" and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Black Scholar, 30(1), 30-31.
Mikell, Gwendolyn. (2000). Deconstructing Gates’ "Wonders of the African world." The Black Scholar, 30(1), 32-34.
Okolo, Amechi A. (2000). My preliminary response to, "A preliminary response to Ali Mazrui’s preliminary critique." The Black Scholar, 30(1), 35-38.
Jeyifo, Biodun. (2000). Greatness and cruelty: "Wonders of the African world" and the reconfiguration of Senghorian negritude. The Black Scholar, 30(1), 39-44.
Agozino, Biko. (2000). Wonders of the African crisis. The Black Scholar, 30(1), 45-47.
Mazrui, Ali A. (2000). A millennium letter to Henry Louis Gates,
Jr.: Concluding a dialogue? The Black Scholar, 30(1), 48-51.
DuCille, Ann. (1996). Discourse and dat course: Postcoloniality and Afrocentricity. Pp. 120-135 in Skin Trade. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. [602-610]
Aldridge, Delores. (1997). Womanist issues in Black studies: Towards integrating Africana womanism into Africana studies. Chapter 11 (pp. 143-154) in James L. Conyers, Jr. (Ed.), Africana Studies: A disciplinary quest for both theory and method. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. [611-617]
Lemelle, Sid. [On Afrocentricity.] [handout]
West, Cornel. (1993). Demystifying the new Black conservatism. Chapter
4 (pp. 49-59) in Race matters. Boston: Beacon Press. [618-624]
Week 14: November 29: Contemporary challenges confronting Black people
Chideya, Farai. (1995). Chapters 15, 16, and 17 pp. 190-240 in Don’t Believe the Hype. NY: Penguin. [text]
Zack, Naomi. (1998). Mixed black and white race and public policy. Pp. 73-84 in Naomi Zack, Laurie Shrage, & Crispin Sartwell (Eds.), Race, class, gender and sexuality: The big questions. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. [625-632]
Gordon, Lewis. (1997). Racist ideology Pp 532 – 536 in Floyd W. Hayes, III (Ed.), A turbulent voyage: Readings in African American Studies (Second edition). Collegiate Press. [633-635]
Hutchinson, Earl Ofari. (1994). Black capitalism: Self-help or self delusion? Chapter 24 Pp 264-271 in Fred Pincus and Howard Ehrlich (Eds.), Race and ethnic conflict: contending views on prejudice, discrimination and ethnoviolence. Boulder: Westview press. [636-639]
Graham,Otis Lawrence. (1992/). Invisible Man : Why this Harvard Trained lawyer went undercover as a busboy at an all-white Connecticut Country Club. Pp. 283-294 in David M. Newman (Ed.), Sociology: Exploring the architecture of everyday life. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press. [640-646]
Tucker, William (1996) .All in the family: illegitimacy and welfare
dependence . Pp. 123-132 in John Arthur & Amy Shapiro (Eds.), Color,
class identity: The new politics of race. Boulder, CO: Westview. [647-652]
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Clarke, John Henrik. (1999). Black studies movement. Chapter 3 in My life in search of Africa. Chicago: Third World Press. [673-686]
Collins, Patricia Hill. (2000). U.S. Black feminism in transnational context. (Chapter 10, pp. 227-249 Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness and the politics of empowerment. NY: Routledge. [687-698]
Guy-Sheftall, Beverly. (1995). Introduction: The evolution of feminist consciousness among African American women. Pp. 1-22 in Words of fire: An anthology of African-American feminist thought. NY: The New York Press. [699-710]
Fairchild, Halford H. (1997). The problem of the 21st
century. Psych Discourse, 28(7&8), 3-4. [711-712]
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Requirements:
Attendance
is required and is worth 1500 points for the semester.
Weekly writing
assignments are papers that integrate the week’s reading material.
As the instructors for the course are planning to publish this set of readings
as a textbook, you should consider each week’s reading as a "Part" or "Section"
of the book. Your assignment is to write the introductory preface to that
section. As such, your paper should be analytical, assume a point-of-view,
and integrate mention of each reading in the context of that essay. When
applicable, inclusion of films and lecture material should be incorporated
into the essay. The instructors will incorporate suitable papers into the
publication of their book. Each paper should be between 4.5 and 5 pages
in length, double spaced, have one inch margins, be properly referenced,
and typed in 12 point type. Each paper is worth 100 points. Papers are
due at the beginning of class, weekly, except for the first and last weeks
of the semester. A total of 13 weekly papers are expected.
Book Reviews.
In addition to the above, students are to write a book review on Roots,
due 10/18/2000, and I know why the caged bird sings, due 11/15/2000.
Each review should, where approrpriate, integhrate the otyher readings
of the course. Each review is worth 100 points. A Final
Term Paper is required. Students should prepare a term paper, due on
December 6th, that integrates all of the course material. It
should broadly answer the questions: "What is Black Studies? What are its
Past, Present and Probable Future?" Papers should be 15 pages in length
with one inch margins, double spaced, and typed in 12 point type. Papers
should be properly referenced. The final paper is worth 1000 points. Overall
contribution to the class will be determined by the instructors and is
worth up to 1200 points for the semester. Thus, final grades are based
on a point total of 1500 (attendance at 100 per week) + weekly papers (1300)
+ book reviews (200) + final paper (1000) + classroom participation (1000)
for a total of 5000. A = 92% or better. A - = 90%-91.9%. B+ = 88%-89.9%.
B = 82%-87.9%. B- = 80%-81.9%. Etc. Point totals are subject to change.
Readings and assignments are subject to change.