17 Sept. DeMott, a Happy 19 Sept. “Put On Nations of Black Race, Hollywood, Video: “Two America” Face” History, & Myth – Buddy Films, Trayvon Martin, & Oscar Grant 24 Sept. Melville 26 Sept. Demographic Overview: Politics, History, & “Benito Cereno” African-American Communities 1 Oct. Jordan, Nash 3 Oct. Origins of Slavery Origins of Slavery 8 Oct. Morgan 10 Oct. Video: in America: The Terrible Equiano (optional) What was “Africans “the Terrible Transformation” Transformation?” 15 Oct. Walker, Jefferson 17 Oct. Race & Slavery in Colonial America & the New Video: “Jefferson’s Republic Blood” Video: “Jefferson’s Blood” 22 Oct. Walker 24 Oct. Race, Slavery, and Memory: The Case of “Mongrel America” Thomas Jefferson 29 Oct. Trouillot, Wood 31 Oct. Silencing and Unsilencing the Past Trouillot & Wood 5 Nov. Douglass 7 Nov. Slavery, Song, & Resistance Douglass 12 Nov. Oates 14 Nov. Nat Turner Frederick Douglass & Nat Turner 19 Nov. Jacobs 21 Nov. Gendered Resistance & Soul Murder Painter, on Sojourner Truth Gender & Slavery: Fox-Genovese Harriet Jacobs & Sojourner Truth 26 Nov. Painter, 28 Nov. “Soul Murder” Slavery what we know, and know Putting it all together: – don’t your collective sense of slavery
17 Sept. Video: “Two Nations of Black America” DeMott, “Put On a Happy Face” 19 Sept. Race, Hollywood, History, & Myth – Buddy Films, Trayvon Martin, & Oscar Grant 24 Sept. Demographic Overview: Politics, History, & African-American Communities Melville 26 Sept. “Benito Cereno” 1 Oct. Origins of Slavery Jordan, Nash 3 Oct. Origins of Slavery 8 Oct. Video: “Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation” Morgan Equiano (optional) 10 Oct. What was “the Terrible Transformation?” 15 Oct. Race & Slavery in Colonial America & the New Republic Video: “Jefferson’s Blood” Walker, Jefferson 17 Oct. Video: “Jefferson’s Blood” 22 Oct. Race, Slavery, and Memory: The Case of Thomas Jefferson Walker 24 Oct. “Mongrel America” 29 Oct. Silencing and Unsilencing the Past Trouillot, Wood 31 Oct. Trouillot & Wood 5 Nov. Slavery, Song, & Resistance Douglass 7 Nov. Douglass 12 Nov. Nat Turner Oates 14 Nov. Frederick Douglass & Nat Turner 19 Nov. Gendered Resistance & Soul Murder Jacobs Painter, on Sojourner Truth Fox-Genovese 21 Nov. Gender & Slavery: Harriet Jacobs & Sojourner Truth 26 Nov. Slavery – what we know, and don’t know Painter, “Soul Murder” 28 Nov. Putting it all together: your collective sense of slavery
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