{"id":14,"date":"2018-03-13T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/steelton2001\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T18:00:51","slug":"african-american-lives-history-and-social-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mosaics.dickinson.edu\/steelton2001\/course-info-syllabi\/african-american-lives-history-and-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"African American Lives: History and Social Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Course Title: African-American Lives, History, and Social Change<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Weeks 2-5<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>T, Th: 1-4<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Texts:<\/strong><br \/>\nTakaki, <em>A Different Mirror<\/em><br \/>\nGriffin, <em>Who Set You Flowin<\/em><br \/>\nKelley, <em>Race Rebels<\/em>, 1-102<br \/>\nStuckey, <em>Going Through the Storm<\/em>, Chapters 1, 13, 14.<br \/>\nDuBois, <em>The Souls of Black Folk<\/em>, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6<br \/>\nLitwack, <em>Trouble in Mind<\/em>, Chapters 3,6.<br \/>\nDittmer, <em>Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Transcripts<\/strong>:<br \/>\nDelta Oral History Project<br \/>\nAmerican Mosaic Steelton, 1996<br \/>\n<strong>Films:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Eyes on the Prize<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Great Depression<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Freedom on My Mind<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Wild Women Don\u2019t Get the Blues<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Good Fight<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Seeing Red<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 2: American Slavery and Freedom<\/strong><br \/>\nStuckey, Ch 13, <em>Toward A History of Blacks in North America<\/em>, 239-264.<br \/>\nCh 1, <em>Through the Prism of Folklore: The Black Ethos in Slavery<\/em>, p 3-18<br \/>\nTakaki, Chapters 2, 3, 5, &amp; 6<br \/>\nLitwack, Chapter 6<br \/>\n(Plus Fulop &amp; Raboteau chapter on <em>The Creation of an African-American Culture<\/em>, by Levine)<br \/>\n<strong>Films:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Family Across the Sea<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Irish in America<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Topics:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Origins of American Slavery<br \/>\nThe Slave Trade and the growth of staple-crop production (tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton)<br \/>\nThe Creation of an African-American Culture &amp; Religion<br \/>\nThe American Revolution and the Civil War: Possibilities of Liberty?<br \/>\nReconstruction and Athe Nadir@: 1877-1930: Lynching as Social Control<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 3: African American Movements: 1880-1945<\/strong><br \/>\nLitwack, Chapter 3<br \/>\nTakaki, CH 13, 14<br \/>\nGriffin, Entire book<br \/>\nKelley, Chapter 1, 2, 6<br \/>\n<strong>Films:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Wild Women Don&#8217;t Get the Blues<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Good Fight<\/em> (Spanish Civil WarBclips)<br \/>\n<em>The Great Depression, Mean Things Happening in the Land<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Topics:<\/strong><br \/>\nHard Times in the South: Poverty, Sharecropping, White Violence<br \/>\nMigration North and the Nationalization of Black Culture<br \/>\nWorld War I and the Red Summer of 1919<br \/>\nThe Harlem Renaissance &amp; Black Popular Culture<br \/>\nOrganizing for Protest: the NAACP, Urban League, Garveyism, and Communism<br \/>\nWorld War II and the renewed promise of Democracy; the contradictory lessons of military service<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 4: The Cold War, McCarthyism, and the emergence of a Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1946-1960<\/strong><br \/>\nDittmer, Ch 1-5<br \/>\nBaldwin, The Fire Next Time (Entire book)<br \/>\nTranscripts: Bob Love, Jack Harper, Juanita Scott<br \/>\n<strong>Films:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Seeing Red<\/em> (segment)<br \/>\n<em>Eyes on the Prize<\/em><br \/>\nBeginnings: 1950s, Emmett Till lynching, Montgomery Bus Boycott,<br \/>\n<strong>Topics:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Cold War &amp; McCarthyism: A New National Security Mandate<br \/>\nThe Brown Decision, and Southern Reaction<br \/>\nThe Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Desegregation of Central High School<br \/>\nThe Emmett Till Lynching<br \/>\nBlack communities in the North: Baldwin&#8217;s <em>Cities of Destruction<\/em> and the Nation of Islam<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 5: The Southern Student and Community Movements, 1960-1968<\/strong><br \/>\nStuckey, <em>Going Through the Storm: The Great Singing Movements of the 1960s\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nDittmer, Ch. 6, 10, 11-12<br \/>\n<strong>Film:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Freedom on My Mind<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Eyes on the Prize, 1967-1968<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Transcripts:<\/strong> Delta and Steelton: Reading, Distilling, Performing<br \/>\n<strong>Topics:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Movement in the South, 1960-1968<br \/>\nThe War on Poverty and Rebellions in the north<br \/>\nChange and Resistance<br \/>\nAfrican Americans, White kids and Vietnam<br \/>\n1968: The Dream Explodes<br \/>\nPaper I: Analysis and comparison of transcripts and voices: African American lives, work, &amp; 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DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6 Litwack, Trouble in Mind, Chapters 3,6. 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