Due |
Topics |
Assignments |
Aug. 17 |
Music and the Movement |
Bernice Johnson Reagon |
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Favorite medium |
Discussion |
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Aug. 24 |
Between the World and Me 1 |
Coates part 1 |
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Coates and Media |
listening, reading, viewing |
Aug. 31 |
Stereotypes, Slavery, and Segregation |
Rhodes chap. 2 |
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Stereotypes on Television |
Torres intro.; Color Adjustment 1 |
Sept. 7 |
Labor Day |
n/a |
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“Awakenings” and Sit Ins |
Eyes on the Prize 1 and 3 |
Sept. 14 |
Martin Luther King, 1963 |
Eyes on the Prize 4; Cobo Hall |
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SCLC and Television |
Torres chap. 1; Selma |
Sept. 15 |
Exam 1 |
Face-to-face; time and place TBD |
Sept. 21 |
Malcolm X |
Eyes on the Prize 7; “Message to the Grassroots” |
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Black Power |
Eyes on the Prize 9 |
Sept. 28 |
Politics of Self-Representation |
Rhodes chapter 4 |
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Black Power in California |
Black Power Mixtape |
Oct. 5 |
“A Nation of Law?” |
Eyes on the Prize 12 |
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Black Panther Party, 1968 |
Rhodes chap. 5 |
Oct. 12 |
Revolution (Un)televised |
Color Adjustment 2 |
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“Two Societies” |
Eyes on the Prize 8 |
Oct. 19 |
Eyes on the Prize as movement text |
TBD |
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TBD |
TBD |
Oct. 26 |
Black Power in Public Memory |
Rhodes chap. 1 |
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Forrest Gump, Panther, Malcolm X |
film clips |
Nov. 2 |
Deindustrialization and Hip-hop |
Rose |
Nov. 3 |
Exam 2 |
Face-to-face; time and place TBD |
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Tupac Shakur |
Dimitriadis 5; playlist |
Nov. 9 |
Coates, Between the World and Me |
Coates part 2 |
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Social Media and Black Lives Matter |
news articles; Coates interview |
Nov. 16 |
CryptoHarlem |
podcast interview |
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TBD |
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Nov. 30 |
Final Exam (Online – D2L) |
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