Course Title: African-American Lives, History, and Social Change

Weeks 2-5

T, Th: 1-4

Texts: Takaki, A Different Mirror

Griffin, >Who Set You Flowin=?=

Kelley, Race Rebels, 1-102

Stuckey, Going Through the Storm, Chapters 1, 13, 14.

DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 6

Litwack, Trouble in Mind, Chapters 3,6.

Dittmer, Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Transcripts, Delta Oral History Project, American Mosaic Steelton, 1996

Films: Eyes on the Prize

The Great Depression

Freedom on My Mind

Wild Women Don=t Get the Blues

The Good Fight

Seeing Red

Week 2: American Slavery and Freedom

Stuckey, Ch 13, AToward A History of Blacks in North America,@ 239-264.

Ch 1, AThrough the Prism of Folklore: The Black Ethos in Slavery,@ p 3-18

Takaki, Chapters 2, 3, 5, & 6

Litwack, Chapter 6

(Plus Fulop & Raboteau chapter on The Creation of an African-American Culture, by Levine? You Have This, Susan?)

Films: AFamily Across the Sea,@

AThe Irish in America@

Topics: The Origins of American Slavery

The Slave Trade and the growth of staple-crop production (tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton)

The Creation of an African-American Culture & Religion

The American Revolution and the Civil War: Possibilities of Liberty?

Reconstruction and Athe Nadir@: 1877-1930: Lynching as Social Control

Week 3: African American Movements: 1880-1945

Litwack, Chapter 3

Takaki, CH 13, 14

Griffin, Entire book

Kelley, Chapter 1, 2, 6

Films: AWild Women Don=t Get the Blues,@

AThe Good Fight,@ (Spanish Civil WarBclips)

AThe Great Depression,@BAMean Things Happening in the Land@

Topics: Hard Times in the South: Poverty, Sharecropping, White Violence

Migration North and the Nationalization of Black Culture

World War I and the Red Summer of 1919

The Harlem Renaissance & Black Popular Culture

Organizing for Protest: the NAACP, Urban League, Garveyism, and Communism

World War II and the renewed promise of Democracy; the contradictory lessons of military service

Week IV: The Cold War, McCarthyism, and the emergence of a Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1946-1960

Dittmer, Ch 1-5

Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (Entire book)

Transcripts: Bob Love, Jack Harper, Juanita Scott

Films: ASeeing Red@ (segment)

AEyes on the Prize,@ Beginnings: 1950s, Emmett Till lynching, Montgomery Bus Boycott,

Topics: The Cold War & McCarthyism: A New National Security Mandate

The Brown Decision, and Southern Reaction

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Desegregation of Central High School

The Emmett Till Lynching

Black communities in the North: Baldwin=s ACities of Destruction@ and the Nation of Islam

Week V: The Southern Student and Community Movements, 1960-1968

Stuckey, AGoing Through the Storm: The Great Singing Movements of the 1960s@

Dittmer, Ch. 6, 10, 11-12

Film: AFreedom on My Mind,@

AEyes on the Prize,@B1967-1968

Transcripts: Delta and Steelton: Reading, Distilling, Performing

Topics: The Movement in the South, 1960-1968

The War on Poverty and Rebellions in the north

Change and Resistance

African Americans, White kids and Vietnam

1968: The Dream Explodes

Paper I: Analysis and comparison of transcripts and voices: African American lives, work, & politics, South and North