Important Notes about the Below Schedule of Assignments
-Readings should be completed in full by the first day they appear on the schedule.
-Assignments are due by 8:00 am on the day listed on the schedule unless noted otherwise.
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Schedule of Assignments*
| Date | Readings for Class (should be read before class) | Assignments | |
| UNIT 1: The Matter of Blackness and The Blackness of Matter | |||
| Thurs, Jan 17 | Baker, Houston. “Chapter 6.” Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chicago: U of Chicago P., 1987. 49-52. Baker_Ch5_MHR_Form & Deformation | ||
| Tues, Jan. 22 | Narrative of the Life of Henry “Box Brown,” Written by Himself | POST GROUPS 1-3 | |
| Thurs, Jan 23 | Narrative of the Life of Henry “Box” Brown, Written by Himself | ||
| Tues, Jan. 29 | Class Cancelled | ||
| Thurs, Jan 31 | Freedom Song: The Story of Henry “Box” Brown
Henry’s Freedom Box Narrative of the Life of Henry “Box” Brown, Written by Himself |
POST GROUPS 4-6 | |
| Tues, Feb 5 | “The Forethought”; Chapters 1-6; Chapters 11- 14; AND “The After Thought” in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. Du Bois.
Extra: The Souls of Black Folk (with annotations of the musical notation included in the original text). |
POST GROUPS 2, 4, 6 | |
| Thurs, Feb 7 | “The Forethought”; Chapters 1-6; Chapters 11- 14; AND “The After Thought” in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. Du Bois. | ||
| Tues, Feb 12 | “The Forethought”; Chapters 1-6; Chapters 11- 14; AND “The After Thought” in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. Du Bois. |
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POST GROUPS 1, 3, 5 |
| Thurs, Feb 14 | Watch: select episode of Atlanta [will show in class due to inability to find an appropriately accessible link]
Watch: “Big Boi x BlocBoy JB” Video If this link does not work, just copy and paste the info into google, and it will come up. Watch: “ATLiens” by OutKast |
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| Tues, Feb 19 | Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 | ||
| Wed, Feb 20 | PAPER DUE by 9:00 am
[All Papers should be submitted by email as a Word Document using double space, 12 point Times New Roman Font, and 1′ margins. Please put your name and page number in the header/footer section.] |
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| Thurs, Feb 21 | Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 | ||
| Tues, Feb 26 | Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 | ||
| Thurs, Feb 28 | Read: “The Space Traders” by Derrick Bell
Watch: “The Space Traders” Cosmic Slop |
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| T-Th Mar 5-7 | SPRING BREAK
[All Papers should be submitted by email as a Word Document using double space, 12 point Times New Roman Font, and 1′ margins. Please put your name and page number in the header/footer section.] |
Paper Due by midnight on Tuesday, March 5th | |
| Unit 2: What Matters is What Matters; or What’s the Matter, Black Girl? | |||
| Tues, Mar 12 | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , Harriet Jacobs |
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| Thurs, Mar 14 | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , Harriet Jacobs | Project Check-in 1 Due before Spring Break | |
| Tues, Mar 19 | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , Harriet Jacobs | ||
| Thurs, Mar 21 | Harriet Jacobs by Lydia Diamond | ||
| Tues, Mar 26 | Harriet Jacobs by Lydia Diamond | ||
| Thurs, Mar 28 | Harriet Jacobs by Lydia Diamond | ||
| Tues, Apr 2 | DuBois, W.E.B. “Criteria for Negro Art.” Found on WEBDuBois.org Accessed Jan 25, 2019.
Hughes, Langston. “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” (1926) Found on “Modern American Poetry.” English Department. University of Illinois. Hurston, Zora Neale. “Art and Such.” Found on the Digital Public Library of America. <www.dp.la.org> Accessed January 25, 2019. Hurston, Zora Neale. “The Pet Negro System.” The American Mercury (May 1943): 593-600. Found online at The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Collection. <www.unz.com> Accessed January 25, 2019. |
POST GROUPS 2, 3 | |
| Thurs, Apr 4 | DuBois, W.E.B. “Criteria for Negro Art.” Found on WEBDuBois.org Accessed Jan 25, 2019.Hughes, Langston. “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” (1926) Found on “Modern American Poetry.” English Department. University of Illinois.
Hurston, Zora Neale. “Art and Such.” Found on the Digital Public Library of America. <www.dp.la.org> Accessed January 25, 2019. Hurston, Zora Neale. “The Pet Negro System.” The American Mercury (May 1943): 593-600. Found online at The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Collection. <www.unz.com> Accessed January 25, 2019. |
POST GROUPS 1, 5 | |
| Tuesday,Apr 9 | FIRE!! A Quarterly Dedicated to Younger Negro Artists. Volume 1 Issue 1. New York: The Fire Press, 1926. [ From the Forward – page 23] | POST GROUPS 4, 6 | |
| Tuesday, Apr 9 | Deadline for Group Meetings with Professor (By 4:00 pm on Tuesday, April 9, each group should have met as a whole group with the professor outside of the class. It is the group’s responsibility to schedule a time to meet with the professor prior to this date.) | Group Meeting Deadline | |
| Thurs, Apr 11 | FIRE!! A Quarterly Dedicated to Younger Negro Artists. Volume 1 Issue 1. New York: The Fire Press, 1926. [Whole text meaning from Forward – page 48] | ||
| Tues, Apr 16 | Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
[Part 1: First four”chapters” (through the letter to Indigo from her mother, which is two pages and italicized. (First 75 pages in the 1982 Picador Issue)] |
POST GROUPS 1-3 | |
| Wed, Apr 17 | Revision Exercises Due. If you are considering submitting a revision of your paper, you must turn in the revision exercised (assigned during your office discussion with the professor) by Wednesday, April 17 at noon. If you do not submit a completed revision exercise by this date, you will not be able to submit a revision at the end of the semester. If you submit the revision exercise, you may still opt to not submit a revision at the end of the semester. | Revision Exercise Due | |
| Thurs, Apr 18 | HOLY THURSDAY NO CLASSES | ||
| Tues, Apr 23 | Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo
[Whole Text] |
Project Check-in 2 Due by 8:00 am | |
| Thurs, Apr 25 | Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo
[Whole Text] |
POST GROUPS 4-6 | |
| Tues, Apr 30 | PROJECT WORKSHOP DAY | ||
| Thurs, May 2 | PROJECT PRESENTATION DAY LAST DAY OF CLASS |
ALL INDIVIDUAL WORK DUE | |
| Thurs, May 9
Saturday May 11 |
FINAL PROJECTS DUE by 6:00 pm on Thursday, May 9
GROUP AND SELF EVALUATIONS DUE by 9:00 am on Saturday, May 11 |
ALL GROUP PROJECT RELATED WORK DUE |
*The above schedule is subject to change based on the professor’s assessment of the direction of the course discussion. Any changes to the schedule will be made with sensitivity to students’ schedules and work load.
Changes to the schedule will be announced both in class and as a separate post on the class site. If you have questions about due dates or assignment, please contact the professor.
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