Topic: 20th Century Black Nationalism

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
4:00pm-6:00pm
W
Candler Library 207D
Davis Jr., Leroy. WRT. 41595 TBA.

January 18, 2012- May 01, 2012

Crosslisted: AAS490-000.

Semester Details:

This course takes a critical look at 20th Century Black Nationalism, both historically, and more recently in the United States, and on occasion, other parts of the African Diaspora.  We interrogate its meaning in different geographical spaces and how those meanings have remained static or changed over time.

This is an intensive writing course and students are required to write a major paper based mainly on primary but also secondary sources.  Weekly readings are also required with oral reports.  There is mandatory attendance but there are no examinations.

Required Textbooks, Articles, and Resources

  1. Tunde Adeleke. UnAfrican Americans: Nineteenth Century Black Nationalists and the Civilizing Mission.
  2. Roderick Bush. The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line.
  3. Ula Yvette Taylor. The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey.
  4. Patricia Hill Collins. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism and Feminism.
  5. Melanye Price. Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion.

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