March 26: Practicing Power Readings: ch. 8, 10 and 11 Freedom North, 22, 28, 29 Voices of Freedom, Pauli Murray, Politics at Brandeis” (L) “Black Week 12 March 31: Julian Bond Lecture April 2 The Culture of Blackness Readings: ch. 9 Freedom North, Mayes, Holiday of our Own:’ Kwanzaa, Cultural Nationalism “‘A and the Promotion of a Black Power Holiday, 1966-1985” in The Black (L) Power Movement Week 13 April 7 and 9 No Class Spring Recess Quiz #5 CIVIL RIGHTS IN POST-CIVIL RIGHTS AMERICA Week 14 April 14: Local Struggles Readings: ch. 5 Freedom North, 30 Voices of Freedom, April 16: Racial Justice in the Multicultural Moment Readings: Conclusion The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks, 31 Voices of Freedom, Thomas Sugrue, ch. 14 (L) Sweet Land of Liberty, Week 15 April 21: The New Jim Crow Readings: Introduction-ch. 3 New Jim Crow, April 23: #BlackLivesMatter Readings: ch. 4-6 New Jim Crow, Jelani Cobb, I Saw in Ferguson” (L) “What Khalil G. Muhammad, Revolution Will be Live Tweeted: Why “The #BlackLivesMatter is the New for Civil Rights” (L)
March 26: Practicing Power Readings: Freedom North, ch. 8, 10 and 11 Voices of Freedom, 22, 28, 29 Pauli Murray, “Black Politics at Brandeis” (L) Week 12 March 31: Julian Bond Lecture April 2 The Culture of Blackness Readings: Freedom North, ch. 9 Mayes, “‘A Holiday of our Own:’ Kwanzaa, Cultural Nationalism and the Promotion of a Black Power Holiday, 1966-1985” in The Black Power Movement (L) Week 13 April 7 and 9 No Class Spring Recess Quiz #5 CIVIL RIGHTS IN POST-CIVIL RIGHTS AMERICA Week 14 April 14: Local Struggles Readings: Freedom North, ch. 5 Voices of Freedom, 30 April 16: Racial Justice in the Multicultural Moment Readings: The Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks, Conclusion Voices of Freedom, 31 Thomas Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty, ch. 14 (L) Week 15 April 21: The New Jim Crow Readings: New Jim Crow, Introduction-ch. 3 April 23: #BlackLivesMatter Readings: New Jim Crow, ch. 4-6 Jelani Cobb, “What I Saw in Ferguson” (L) Khalil G. Muhammad, “The Revolution Will be Live Tweeted: Why #BlackLivesMatter is the New for Civil Rights” (L)