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Date Topic

September-10: Introduction(s)/Course Overview - The Sankofa Experience

September 27 Trends & Developments Carter G. Woodson. The study of the Negro. James B. Stewart. The legacy of W.E.B. DuBois for contemporary Black Studies Molefi K. Asante. The search for an Afrocentric method.

Slide Show: Zimbabwe: The External Studies Experience Panel Discussion (Layla Welborn, Shamecca Queen Victorious, Leah Brown, Elissa Irvin): Student reflections

September 24: The African Background John Henrik Clarke. Africa and world history in perspective. John G. Jackson. Egypt and the evolution of civilization. Edward L. Jones. Lucius Septimius Sverus: The Black emperor of the world.

Zimbabwe: A Case Study. Film: "Moving On: Hunger for Land in Zimbabwe"

10-1 Europe & the Culture of Domination Adu Boahen. The Sudanese states and empires. Donna Richards. European mythology: The ideology of "Progress" Cheikh Anta Diop. Modern falsification of history.

Film: Frantz Fanon: Black Skin/White Masks

10-8 Enslavement and Resistance LeGrand Clegg. The Black origin of "American" civilization: A bicentennial revelation. C.L.R. James. The Atlantic slave trade and slavery: Some interpretations of their significance in the development of the United States and the Western world. Vincent Harding. Symptoms of liberty and Blackhead signposts: David Walker and Nat Turner.

Stuart Hall: Representation.

10-15 Music and the Arts Portia K. Maultsby. Africanisms in African-American music. Sterling Brown. Negro folk expression: Spirituals, seculars, ballads and work songs. Nelson George. Black beauty, Black confusion (1965-70).

Film: Stuart Hall (excerpts): Media Representation

IDBS Lecture: 3:00 Phyllis Jackson (needs two slide projectors)

10-22 Literature Richard Wright. Blueprint for Negro writing. Bernard W. Bell. The contemporary Afro-American novel 1: Neorealism.

Film: America’s Dream (short by Richard Wright) 4:00 IDBS Lecture: Gwen Lytle - Music

10-29 Sociology: The African American Family Andrew Billingsley. Historical backgrounds of the Negro family. E. Franklin Frazier. The Negro family. Glenn C. Loury. The Black family: A critical challenge. William Darity, Jr., & Samuel L. Myers, Jr. Public policy trends and the fate of the Black family.

Film Clip: Raisin in the Sun

3:00 IDBS Lecture: Laura Harris

11-5 Psychology Halford H. Fairchild. Placing Blacks at Center of Psychology. Wade W. Nobles. Western psychology: Its inadequacies and views of African people. Na'im Akbar. Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery.

Film: Speech by Na’im Akbar

4:15: IDBS Lecture: Stan Gaines

11-12 Literacy & Education Frederick Douglass. Learning to read and growing in knowledge. Jewell R.C. Mazique. Betrayal in the schools. Floyd W. Hayes, III. Race, urban politics, and educational policy-making in Washington D.C.: A community's struggle for quality education. John Matlock. The effect of desegregation policies on historically Black colleges and universities.

Guest Lecture: Peter Harris: Creative Expression & Poetry Reading Film Possibilities: America’s Dream (The Boy Who Painted Christ Black) or The Road to Brown

11-19 Political Economy & History Harold M. Baron. The demand for Black labor: Historical notes on the political economy of racism. Daniel R. Fusfeld & Timothy Bates. Black economic well-being since the 1950s.

IDBS Lecture: Sid Lemelle

11-26 Politics Milton D. Morris. Democratic politics and Black subordination. Mary F. Berry & John W. Blassingame. Blacks and the politics of redemption.

Film: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

12-3 Ideology & Culture W.E.B. Du Bois. Of our spiritual strivings. Cornel West. Assessing Black neoconservatism. Patricia Hill Collins. The social construction of Black feminist thought.

Film: Darker Side of Blue

IDBS Lecture: Dipa Basu

12-10 Debriefing

Weekly Writing Assignments Writing Intensive. This course is writing intensive and requires weekly reaction papers. For each of the assigned readings, provide a brief "thumbnail sketch" of the reading (in one page or less), and a brief "reaction statement" that provides your personal reaction to an aspect of the material in the article (in one or two paragraphs). For example, the readings for September 18 include three articles (by Woodson, Stewart and Asante). For each of these articles, write a brief "thumbnail sketch" and "reaction statement." Students may be asked to read their reaction statements in class as a stimulus to class discussion. These writing assignments will be graded on a 100-point scale (subjectively determined by the instructors on the basis of thoroughness, originality, effort, appearance and writing quality). Papers are due at the beginning of class. Late papers receive 1/2 credit. All papers may be re-written and re-submitted for re-grading within one week of their return to the student (late papers will still receive 1/2 credit).

Book Review Two supplemental books are assigned: Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and Chenjarai Hove’s Bones. For each of the supplemental books, students must write a book review that critically assesses the contribution of the book to Black Studies. Students are encouraged to use the book reviews in the Los Angeles Times or the New York Times as models for this assignment. Due Dates: October 8, 1996 (Fanon) and October 29 (Hove). (Late papers receive 75% credit.)

Term Paper The term project is a paper that seeks an integration and/or synthesis of all of the reading material and class presentations. Students should strive to incorporate as much of the material as feasible. This paper should strive to answer the following exemplary questions: What is Black Studies? What are the special challenges to Black Studies? What are its limitations? What are its past, present and future? (Students are free to be creative in their approach to this assignment.) The final paper should be about 10 pages in length (typed, double spaced). Due Date: December 11, 1996 (beginning of class). (Late final papers receive 75% credit.) Final Grading Grades are determined on a point basis. Weekly papers (thumbnail sketch & reaction statements) are worth up to 100 points for a total of 1200 points. (Each week’s paper will be graded on a 70-100 point scale.) The book reviews are worth 500 points. The final paper is worth 1000 points. Contribution to the class discussion is worth up to 300 points (Each absence, regardless of excuse, subtracts 50 points from the total). (Class discussion will be subjectively graded on a 70 to 100 point scale, and that total will be multiplied by 3. Subtractions for absences are then taken from the grand total.) The grand total, therefore, is 2000 possible points. Final grades will be determined according to the following formula: A (92%+); A/B (88%-91.9%); B (82%-79.9%); B/C (78%-81.9%); C (72%+); C/D (68%+, etc. Additional assignments will be made on an ad hoc basis. The requirements and grading formula are subject to change.