Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
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January 10 |
Introduction |
| Module One: Slavery |
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| M |
January 15 |
Martin Luther King Holiday—no class |
| W |
January 17 |
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko |
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| M |
January 22 |
Behn, continued |
| W |
January 24 |
Behn, continued |
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| M |
January 29 |
QUIZ ON OROONOKO
Poems by Phillis Wheatley |
| W |
January 31 |
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave |
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| M |
February 5 |
Douglass, continued |
| W |
February 7 |
Douglass, continued |
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| M |
February 12 |
PART ONE EXAMINATION ON BEHN, WHEATLEY, AND DOUGLASS |
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| Module Two: Reconstruction and Jim Crow |
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| W |
February 14 |
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery |
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| M |
February 19 |
Washington, continued |
| W |
February 21 |
QUIZ ON WASHINGTON
Langston Hughes, selected poems |
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| M |
February 26 |
Hughes, continued |
| W |
February 28 |
PART TWO EXAMINATION ON WASHINGTON AND HUGHES |
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| M-W |
March 4-8 |
Spring Break |
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| Module Three: Civil Rights Era and Beyond |
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| M |
March 11 |
Do the Right Thing (1989), screening in class (120 minutes) |
| W |
March 13 |
Do the Right Thing (1989), continued screening followed by discussion |
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| M |
March 18 |
Colson Whitehead, Underground Railroad, Ajarry, Georgia |
| W |
March 20 |
Whitehead, Ridgeway, South Carolina |
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| M |
March 25 |
Whitehead, Stevens, North Carolina |
| W |
March 27 |
Whitehead, Ethel, Tennessee, Caesar
QUIZ ON WHITEHEAD'S UNDERGROUND RAILROAD |
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| M |
April 1 |
Whitehead, Indiana, Mabel, The North
DRAFT OF SHORT PAPER ON RACE AND LIT DUE FOR PEER-EDITING |
| W |
April 3 |
Get Out (2017), screening in class (104 minutes) |
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| M |
April 8 |
Discussion of Get Out (2017) |
| W |
April 10 |
Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird, Texas 2016, Part One |
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| M |
April 15 |
Locke, Part Two, Chs. 5-8, Part Three Chs. 9-11 |
| W |
April 17 |
Locke, Part Three, Chs. 12-16
FINAL DRAFT OF SHORT PAPER ON RACE AND LIT DUE |
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| M |
April 22 |
Locke, Part Four, Chs. 17-21 |
| W |
April 24 |
Locke, Part Four, Chs. 22-27, Camilla |
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| F |
May 3 |
8-9:50am FINAL EXAM (CUMULATIVE) |
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