Sept. 9: Introduction
Sept. 14: The Vernacular Tradition: PP 3 – 8; Stack O Lee stories P 38 and handouts; Brer Rabbit stories PP 142 – 146
Sept 16: The Literature of Slavery and Freedom: P 151; Olauda Equiano: “An Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olauda Equiano….” (Chapters 1 and 2) P 187
Sept. 21: Phillis Wheatley: “On Being Brought from Africa to America” P 219; David Walker: “David Walker’s Appeal” P 227; Sojourner Truth: “Ar’n’t I a Woman?” P 245
Sept. 23: Harriet Jacobs: “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” P 279
Sept. 28: Frederick Douglass: “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself” P 385
Sept. 30: Frederick Douglass Continued; Two Pager paper #1 Due
Oct. 5: The Literature of the Reconstruction: P 541; Booker T. Washington: “Up From Slavery” Chapter I P 570 and Chapter XIV P 594; WEB Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk “The Forethought” P 692, “Of our Spiritual Strivings” P 693, and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” P 699
Oct. 7: Charles W. Chesnutt: “The Goophered Grapevine” P 602; Ida B. Wells Barnett: The Red Record” P 675; One Page Book Explanation Due
Oct. 12: Paul Lawrence Dunbar: “An Ante-Bellum Sermon” P 912, “We Wear the Mask” P 918, “Sympathy” P 922; Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson: “Violets” P 937, “I Sit and Sew” P 938
Oct. 14: Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay: “If We Must Die” P 1006; Countee Cullen: “Yet do I Marvel” P 1341, “Incident” P 1342; Helene Johnson: “Remember Not” P 1353
Oct. 19: Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Oct. 21: Zora Neale Hurston con’t
Oct. 26: Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” P 1291, “Jazzonia” P 1293, “Dream Variations” P 1294, “I Too” P 1295, “Dream Boogie” P 1308, “Harlem” P 1308; Mid Term Exam Due
Oct. 28: Realism, Naturalism & Modernism: P 1355; James Baldwin: “Sonny’s Blues” P 1728
Nov. 2: Richard Wright: “The Man who Lived Underground” P 1436
Nov. 4: Richard Wright Continued
Nov. 9: Loraine Hansberry: “A Raisin in the Sun” P 1768
Nov. 11: Loraine Hansberry con’t
Nov. 16: The Black Arts Era: P 1831; Martin Luther King Jr.: “Letter From Birmingham Jail” PP 1896 - 1908; Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet” PP 116 – 128
Nov. 18: Amiri Baraka: “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” P 1939, “In Memory of Radio” P 1939; Nikki Giovanni: “For Saundra” P 2096, “Beautiful Black Men” P 2097; Ishmael Reed: “I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra” P 2052; Five Page Paper Due
Nov. 23: Literature Since 1975; June Jordon: “Poem about My Rights” P 2017; Maya Angelou: “Still I Rise” P 2156; Yusef Komunyakaa: “February in Sydney” P 2529, “Facing It” P 2530
Nov. 25: No Class… Thanksgiving
Nov. 30: Alice Walker: “Everyday Use” P 2437; Two Page Paper #2 Due
Dec. 2: Michelle Cliff: “Within the Veil” P 2505; Nathaniel Mackey: “False Brilhante” P 2534, “Song of the Andoumboulou” P 2536; Paul Beatty Poem TBA (Handout)
Dec. 7: Colson Whitehead: Sag Harbor
Dec. 9: Colson Whitehead con’t
Dec. 16: Final Exam Due in Class and 1 in class essay 9:00-10:30
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Monday Evening Class
Sept. 13: Introduction; The Vernacular Tradition: PP 3 – 8; Stack O Lee stories P 38 and handouts; Brer Rabbit stories PP 142 – 146; Phillis Wheatley: “On Being Brought from Africa to America” P 219
Sept 20: The Literature of Slavery and Freedom: P 151; Olauda Equiano: “An Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olauda Equiano….” (Chapters 1 and 2) P 187; Harriet Jacobs: “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” P 279
Sept. 27: Frederick Douglass: “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself” P 385; Two Page Paper #1 Due
Oct. 4: The Literature of the Reconstruction: P 541; Booker T. Washington: “Up From Slavery” Chapter I P 570 and Chapter XIV P 594; WEB Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk “The Forethought” P 692, “Of our Spiritual Strivings” P 693, and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” P 699; Charles W. Chesnutt: “The Goophered Grapevine” P 602; Ida B. Wells Barnett: The Red Record” P 675; One Page Book Explanation Due
Oct. 11: Paul Lawrence Dunbar: “An Ante-Bellum Sermon” P 912, “We Wear the Mask” P 918, “Sympathy” P 922; Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson: “Violets” P 937, “I Sit and Sew” P 938; Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay: “If We Must Die” P 1006; Countee Cullen: “Yet do I Marvel” P 1341, “Incident” P 1342; Helene Johnson: “Remember Not” P 1353
Oct. 18: Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Oct. 25: Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” P 1291, “Jazzonia” P 1293, “Dream Variations” P 1294, “I Too” P 1295, “Dream Boogie” P 1308, “Harlem” P 1308; Realism, Naturalism & Modernism: P 1355; James Baldwin: “Sonny’s Blues” P 1728; Mid Term Exam DueNov. 1: Richard Wright: “The Man who Lived Underground” P 1436
Nov. 8: Loraine Hansberry: “A Raisin in the Sun” P 1768
Nov. 15: The Black Arts Era: P 1831; Martin Luther King Jr.: “Letter From Birmingham Jail” PP 1896 - 1908; Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet” PP 116 – 128; Amiri Baraka: “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” P 1939, “In Memory of Radio” P 1939; Nikki Giovanni: “For Saundra” P 2096, “Beautiful Black Men” P 2097; Ishmael Reed: “I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra” P 2052; Five Page Paper Due
Nov. 22: Literature Since 1975; June Jordon: “Poem about My Rights” P 2017; Maya Angelou: “Still I Rise” P 2156; Yusef Komunyakaa: “February in Sydney” P 2529, “Facing It” P 2530
Nov. 25: No Class… Thanksgiving
Nov. 29: Alice Walker: “Everyday Use” P 2437; Michelle Cliff: “Within the Veil” P 2505; Nathaniel Mackey: “False Brilhante” P 2534, “Song of the Andoumboulou” P 2536; Paul Beatty Poem TBA (Handout); Two Page Paper #2 Due
Dec. 6: Colson Whitehead: Sag Harbor
Dec. 13: Final Exam Due in Class and 1 in class essay 9:00-10:30
Sept 20: The Literature of Slavery and Freedom: P 151; Olauda Equiano: “An Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olauda Equiano….” (Chapters 1 and 2) P 187; Harriet Jacobs: “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” P 279
Sept. 27: Frederick Douglass: “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself” P 385; Two Page Paper #1 Due
Oct. 4: The Literature of the Reconstruction: P 541; Booker T. Washington: “Up From Slavery” Chapter I P 570 and Chapter XIV P 594; WEB Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk “The Forethought” P 692, “Of our Spiritual Strivings” P 693, and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” P 699; Charles W. Chesnutt: “The Goophered Grapevine” P 602; Ida B. Wells Barnett: The Red Record” P 675; One Page Book Explanation Due
Oct. 11: Paul Lawrence Dunbar: “An Ante-Bellum Sermon” P 912, “We Wear the Mask” P 918, “Sympathy” P 922; Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson: “Violets” P 937, “I Sit and Sew” P 938; Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay: “If We Must Die” P 1006; Countee Cullen: “Yet do I Marvel” P 1341, “Incident” P 1342; Helene Johnson: “Remember Not” P 1353
Oct. 18: Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Oct. 25: Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” P 1291, “Jazzonia” P 1293, “Dream Variations” P 1294, “I Too” P 1295, “Dream Boogie” P 1308, “Harlem” P 1308; Realism, Naturalism & Modernism: P 1355; James Baldwin: “Sonny’s Blues” P 1728; Mid Term Exam DueNov. 1: Richard Wright: “The Man who Lived Underground” P 1436
Nov. 8: Loraine Hansberry: “A Raisin in the Sun” P 1768
Nov. 15: The Black Arts Era: P 1831; Martin Luther King Jr.: “Letter From Birmingham Jail” PP 1896 - 1908; Malcolm X: “The Ballot or the Bullet” PP 116 – 128; Amiri Baraka: “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note” P 1939, “In Memory of Radio” P 1939; Nikki Giovanni: “For Saundra” P 2096, “Beautiful Black Men” P 2097; Ishmael Reed: “I am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra” P 2052; Five Page Paper Due
Nov. 22: Literature Since 1975; June Jordon: “Poem about My Rights” P 2017; Maya Angelou: “Still I Rise” P 2156; Yusef Komunyakaa: “February in Sydney” P 2529, “Facing It” P 2530
Nov. 25: No Class… Thanksgiving
Nov. 29: Alice Walker: “Everyday Use” P 2437; Michelle Cliff: “Within the Veil” P 2505; Nathaniel Mackey: “False Brilhante” P 2534, “Song of the Andoumboulou” P 2536; Paul Beatty Poem TBA (Handout); Two Page Paper #2 Due
Dec. 6: Colson Whitehead: Sag Harbor
Dec. 13: Final Exam Due in Class and 1 in class essay 9:00-10:30
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