| Week: |
Date: |
Lecture: |
Optional Film: |
Tutorial: |
Assessment: |
| Week 1 |
28 July |
Introduction |
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No tutorial |
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Film: Race:
The Power of an Illusion, ep 1 |
| Week 2 |
4 August |
Atlantic Slave Trade and the
New World |
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Introductory tutorial &
talk about the film |
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Finding
Out About Slaves |
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| Week 3 |
11 August |
From Atlantic Creoles
to Africans, and from Africans to African Americans |
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A Brief History of Race,
and Slave Trade |
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Lords and Masters?
Life on a Chesapeake tobacco plantation in the decades up to
the Revolution |
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| Week 4 |
18 August |
Slave Religion |
| Slavery during the 17th and
18th centuries |
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Slave Family (& the
politics of history) |
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| Week 5 |
25 August |
Shane White: Slave Festivals |
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Culture & Resistance
in the Antebellum Years |
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Shane White:
Slavery and Freedom in the North |
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| Week 6 |
1 September |
The Politics
of Slaves in the Antebellum South |
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Slavery and Its End in New
York City |
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The Greatest
Slave Rebellion in Modern History? |
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| Week 7 |
8 September |
Reconstruction
and the Meaning of Freedom |
Eyes on the Prize, ep. 3 |
The Civil War, Or, The Greatest
Slave Rebellion in Modern History |
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Going North to the
Promised Land
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| Week 8 |
15 September |
“The nadir of black life”?
Racism, violence, and lynching
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Eyes on the Prize, ep. 4 |
The "Nadir" of
Black Life? |
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Black Leadership: Ida
B. Wells, Booker T. Washington & Du Bois |
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| Week 9 |
22 September |
The
Use of Public Space: Garvey and Urban Uprisings
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Marcus Garvey: Look for me in the Whirlwhind |
No tutorial -- optional essay consultation with
Clare |
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The Harlem Renaissance & the
Changing Meaning of Africa
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| Week 10 |
6 October |
Public Holiday |
No tutorial |
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Public Holiday |
Essay Due |
| Week 11 |
13 October |
Freedom Struggles in the Twentieth
Century I |
Eyes on the Prize, ep. 5 |
Three Schools of Black Thought |
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Freedom Struggles in the Twentieth
Century II |
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| Week 12 |
20 October |
Cam McKellar: Subversive Noises: Black Cultural Resistance
in the Sound of the Urban Blues |
Eyes on the Prize, ep. 6 |
Freedom Struggles |
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Film from Oscar Micheaux to Spike Lee |
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| Week 13 |
27 October |
Unit conclusion: Does
race still matter in the United States? |
America in the "Colorblind"
Era |
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Essay returned
Exam details
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| 27-30 October |
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Take Home Exam |
