Corey D. B. Walker:
Black Intellectuals in the Age of Empire
Carby, "'Of Lasting Service for the Race': The Work of Frances Ellen
Watkins Harper," in Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the
Afro-American Woman Novelist, 62-94.
J. Moses, "The Lost World of the Negro, 1895-1919: Black Literary and
Intellectual Life before the 'Renaissance'," Black American Literature
Forum, 21.1-2, (Spring-Summer, 1987), 61-84.
A. Stephens, "Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity:
West Indian Intellectuals in Harlem in the Age of War and Revolution,"
American Quarterly, 50.3 (1998), 592-608.
Kimberley Phillips: Race and Gender
Evelyn Brooks. 1992. African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage
of Race. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 17(2):251-274
Robin D. G. 1994. "The Riddle of the Zoot," Chapter 7 in Race Rebels:
Culture, Politics, and Black Working Class. New York: The Free Press,
Olaniyan: New Trajectories in African and African American Studies
Russell L., 1994. "African American Studies and the State of the
Art," 26-45. In Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the
African Diaspora, ed. Mario Azevedo. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic
Tejumola, 1995. "Afrocentrism," Social Dynamics 21(2):91-105.
James B., 1997. "Reaching for Higher Ground: Toward and Understanding
of Black/Africana Studies," 108-139 In James L. Conyers, Jr., ed.,
Africana Studies: A Disciplinary Quest for Both Theory and Method.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company.
1 Eric Lott: Towards the Abolition of Whiteness
6 Olufemi Taiwo: Discussion of "Black Is, Black Ain't"
must see the film before the class. The film will be shown at Clemons
201 at the following times:
13 Jeff Fleisher: Race and Human Classification
Jared. "Race without Color," Discover (November 1994):
Lynda Wright and Karen Springen, "The Search for Adam and Eve," Newsweek
Jan. 11, 1988, pp. 46-52.
Milford, Alan Thorne, Roger Lawn, "The Case Againse Eve," New Scientist
130 (June 22, 1991): 37-.
15 Olufemi Taiwo: Race and the Enlightenment
Charles. 1998. 'Non-Cartesian Sums: Philosophy and the African-American
Experience.' In Blackness Visible: Essays On Philosophy and Race.
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press), chapter 1..
Olufemi. Exorcising Hegel's Ghost: Africa's Challenge to Philosophy.
African Studies Quarterly, 1(4).
Jemima Pierre: Diaspora and the Dynamics of Racialization
Michael and Howard Winant. 1992. "Racial Formation." In Racial
Formation in the United States From the 1960s to the 1990s. New York:
Routlege and Kegan Paul, pp. 53-76.
Howard. 1994. "The Theoretical Status of the Concept of Race." In
Racial Conditions: Politics, Theory, Comparisons. Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, pp. 13-21.
Philippe. 1997. "While the Lion's at Your Door: American Blacks, Africans
and the Killing of Amadou Diallo." CommonQuest 4 (2): 42-49.
Pierre's lecture notes on Diaspora.
22 Milton Vickerman: Conceptions
of Race in the West Indies and the U.S.
Vickerman, Crosscurrents: West Indian Immigrants and Race (Oxford
University Press, 1998), Chapter 2.
27 David T. Haberly: Brazilian
and Afro-Brazilian Identity
Joseph A. 1995. The Brazilians. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Co. Chapters 2 (pp. 57-84) and 14 (pp. 351-370).
must see the film "Bahia: Africa in the Americas" (VHS4236)
There will be two showings at the following times:
8 Kandioura Dramé:
of Camp de Thiaroye
first half of the film (VHS 10066) will be shown in class on March 1st.
must watch the second half of the film *BEFORE* the class discussion.
will be two showings at the following times:
Ernest Allen: Black Nationalism
Meier, "The Emergence of Negro Nationalism: A Study in Ideologies,"
in Along the Color Line, Explorations in the Black Experience, August
Meier and Elliott Rudwick (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976),
J. Raboteau, "African-Americans, Exodus, and the American Israel," in
A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1995), 17-36.
Bair, "True Women, Real Men: Gender, Ideology, and Social Roles in the
Garvey Movement," in Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private
in Women's History: Essays From the Seventh Berkshire Conference on
the History of Women, eds. Dorothy O. Helly and Susan M. Reverby (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1992), 154-66.
Allen, Jr., "Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Continuing Evolution of
the Nation of Islam," in The Farrakhan Factor: African-American Writers
on Leadership, Nationhood, and Minister Louis Farrakhan, ed. Amy Alexander
(New York: Grove Press, 1998), 52-102.
Neal, "The Black Arts Movement," in Visions of a Liberated Future: Black
Arts Movement Writings, ed. Michael Schwartz (New York: Thunder's Mouth
Press, 1989), 62-78.
22 Ernest Allen: Pan Africanism
L. Williams, "Black American Attitudes Toward Africa, 1877-1900," Pan
African Journal 4 (Spring 1971): 173-94.
Geiss, "Du Bois and the Pan-African Conference Movement," in The
Pan-African Movement; A History of Pan-Africanism in America, Europe,
and Africa, trans. Ann Keep (New York: Africana Pub. Co., 1974),
chpt. 12: 229-62.
Lewis, "[Garvey's] Contribution to African Liberation Struggles," in
Marcus Garvey: Anti-Colonial Champion (Trenton, NJ: Africa World
Press, 1988), chpt. 9: 153-177.
M. Von Eschen, "The Making of the Politics of the African Diaspora,"
in Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), chpt. 1: 7-21.
Hanan Sabea: Anti-Colonialism: Struggles, Connections, and Imaginations
P. et al. 1978. "African Resistance and the Liquidation of the European
Empire" in African History pp. 575-592.
Terrence. 1986. "Resistance in Africa: From Nationalist Revolt to Agrarian
Protest" in Resistance Studies in African, Caribbean and Afro-American
History. Gary Okihiro (ed.). Pp. 32-52.
Eschen, Penny. 1997. "The Making of the Politics of the African Diaspora"
in Race Against Empire. Black Americans and Anti-colonialism,
Paul M. Gaston: Jim Crow Must Go: The UVA Story
C. Vann. 1974. "The Man on the Cliff" and "The Declining Years
of Jim Crow," Chapters 4 and 5 In The Strange Career of Jim Crow.
New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 111-188.
Paul. "'Sitting In' in the Sixties."
Martin Luther, Jr. 1963. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
E. Smith: Motown
and the Cultural Politics of Detroit
readings will only be available at the Clemons Reserve Desk.
Suzanne E. 2000. Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics
of Detroit. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, pp. 1-53.
Mieka Brand: African
Theresa A. 1991. The Archaeology of Slave Life. In Before Freedom
Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South.
Kathleen A. and Jane Landers. 1999. Fort Mose: Earliest Free African-American
Town in the United States. In "I, too, am America": Archaeological
Studies of African American Life, Teresa A. Singleton, ed. Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia.
P. 1999. Strong is the bond of kinship: West African ancestor shrines
and sub-floor pits on African-American quarters. In Ethnicity in
Historical Archaeology, edited by Maria Franklin and Garrett Fesler,
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Research Publications, Williamsburg.
Michael Gomez: Praying
and Flying: Vignettes of Africans in Early America
Michael A. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African
Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South, chapters 4 and
Wallace Best: African American Religion
Franklin Frazier. The Religion of the Slaves. Chapter One in The
Levine. The Sacred World of Black Slaves. Chapter One in Black Culture
and Black Consciousness.
Isabel Mukonyora: The Interpretation of Independent Churches
Isabel. "African Indigenous Churches: An Introduction to Independency."
Kenneth L. 2001. "The Changing Face of the Church." Newsweek,
John Mason: Yoruba Religion in the New World