Books
- Angela Davis Are Prisons Obsolete?
- Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me
- Ibram Rodgers The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972
| Week 1 | Setting the Stage |
| Tu (1/5) | Robin D.G. Kelley, “Beyond Black Lives Matter” Kalfou (2)2: Fall 2015: 330-337 (Canvas)
Alicia Garza, “A Herstory of Black Lives Matter” The Feminist Wire, 10/2014 |
| Thurs (1/7) | BJ Fields, “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America” New Left Review, May ‘90 |
| Question | What similarities and differences do you see between the arguments made by Kelley and Garza? How does Fields’ analysis relate to both Kelley and Garza? |
| Week 2 | The Problem of Whiteness |
| Tu (1/12) | Dr. Martin Luther King, “Racism and the White Backlash” in Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (Canvas)
James Baldwin, “On Being White and Other Lies” Essence Magazine, April 1984 |
| Thurs (1/4) | Paula Ioanide, “NY, NY: The Raging Emotions of White Police Brutality” in The Emotional Politics of Racism (Stanford UP, 2014) Canvas |
| Thurs | Guest speaker Paula Ioanide, Ithaca College |
| Question | What connections do you see in the analysis of whiteness made by King, Baldwin and Ioanide? |
| Week 3 | Racial Justice and Economic Justice: MLK, Labor and Ferguson |
| Tues (1/19) | National Domestic Workers Alliance, History of Domestic Worker Industry in the US: Curriculum and Facilitators Guide
Dr. Martin Luther King, “Speech in Support of striking Memphis Sanitation Workers, 1968. |
| Thurs (1/21) | Nikole Hannah-Jones, School Segregation: The Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson. ProPublica, December 19, 2014
Nikole Hannah-Jones, “The Problem We All Live With” This American Life (podcast) Mark Berman and Wesley Lowery, “The 12 key highlights from the DOJ’s scathing Ferguson report” Washington Post, March 4, 2015 Ta-Nehesi Coates, “The Gangsters of Ferguson” The Atlantic, March 5, 2015. Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman, “The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Americans” ProPublica, October 8, 2015. US Department of Justice, Investigation of Ferguson Police Department (optional) Orlando de Guzman, Ferguson: A Report from Occupied Territory (documentary) |
| Tues | Guest speaker, Johnny Earl, SEIU Local 503 |
| Question | What role did material/economic inequalities play in producing the crisis in Ferguson? What solutions might Dr. King and the National Domestic Workers Alliance propose to address this crisis? |
| Week 4 | The Black Radical Tradition |
| Tu (1/26) | Rogers, The Black Campus Movement, 1-48
Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. New York: Vintage Books, Black Power, 1967. 44, 46-47, 50-55. |
| Thurs (1/28) | Rogers, The Black Campus Movement, 49-106
Combahee River Collective, Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) |
| Tues | Nikole Hannah-Jones, public lecture, January 26, 7-8:30, 156 Straub |
| Question | What differences do you see between the analysis of Carmichael and Hamilton and the Combahee River Collective and how do did those differences shape the Black Campus Movement? |
| Week 5 | The Black Campus Movement and its Aftermath |
| Mon (2/1) | Ibram X Kende public lecture on the Black Campus Movement, 4 PM, Knight Browsing Room (mandatory) |
| Tues (2/2) | Rodgers, The Black Campus Movement, 107-170 |
| Tues | Guest speaker Ibram X Kende |
| Thurs (2/4) | Vincent Harding, “Black Students and the Impossible Revolution.” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Sep., 1970), pp. 75-100 (Canvas)Barbara Ransby, “The Class Politics of Black Lives Matter.” Dissent. Fall 2015.
Adolph Reed, Black Particularity Reconsidered, Telos March 20, 1979 1979:71–93 (Canvas) |
| Question | According to Reed, what are the limits of Black Power movements in the 1960s and 1970s? How might Black Campus Movement organizers as well Harding and Ransby respond to this critique? |
| Week 6 | Reproductive Justice and the intersections of race, class and gender |
| Tues (2/9) | Danielle McGuire. “It Was like All of Us Had Been Raped”: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle, The Journal of American History 91 (3), 906-931.
Ida B Wells. “Lynch Law in America.” January 1900, Chicago. See also McGuire, At The Dark End of the Street website |
| Thurs (2/11) |
Loretta Ross, “Understanding Reproductive Justice.” SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. November 2006 (Updated March 2011)Kimberlee Crenshaw et al. Black Women at the Intersection: Holtzclaw Case Links #BlackLivesMatter & Anti-Rape Struggles. December 16, 2015. Democracy Now (podcast and/or transcript) Echoing Ida/Forward Together. Select three entries from this list of blog posts. Identify the posts you choose in your paper and use them to answer the weekly question. |
| Question | What connections do you see between the histories explored by Roberts and McGuire and documented by Wells? How do these struggles relate to the resistance efforts recounted by Ross, Echoing Ida bloggers, and Crenshaw et al.? |
| Week 7 | Prisons |
| Tues (2/16) | Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? pgs 1-59 |
| Tues | Guest speaker (Skype) Dan Berger, UW Bothel |
| Thurs (2/18) | Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? pgs 60-115
Monique Morris, Stephanie Bush-Baskette, and Kimberlé Crenshaw. “Confined in California: Women and Girls of Color in Custody” African American Policy Forum. Policy report. |
| Question | What connections do you see between the analyses of the prison offered by Davis and Morris et al and the resistance movements summarized by Berger? |
| Week 8 | Possibilities of emancipation |
| Tu (2/23) | Coates, Between the World and Me, pp 1-70
James Baldwin, “My Dungeon Shook: Letter To My Nephew On The One Hundredth Anniversary Of The Emancipation” Lisa Beard, “James Baldwin on Violence and Disavowal.” (Canvas) |
| Tues | Guest speaker Lisa Beard, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon |
| Thurs (2/25) | Coates, Between the World and Me, pp 70-end |
| Question | What similarities do you see between the analysis of Baldwin and Coates? How do you understand their differences? |
| Week 9 | Domination and Justice in Oregon |
| Tues (3/1) | Ralph James Mooney. “Matthew Deady and the Federal Judicial Response to Racism in the Early West.” Oregon Law Review, 63, 1985 (Canvas)
Matt Novak, “Oregon was Founded as a Racist Utopia” Gizmodo, January 2015. E. Rector, “Timeline of Oregon and U.S. Racial, Immigration, and Education History.” |
| Thurs (3/3) | Urban League of Portland, “State of Black Oregon Report.” 2015.
“I Too Am Eugene.” Articles on Eugene race history (Canvas). |
| Thurs | Guest speaker, Professor Mark Harris |
| Question | What connections do you see between the histories recounted in the pieces by Novak, Rector and Mooney and the contemporary conditions recounted in the Eugene articles and Urban League report? |
| Week 10 | Looking Forward |
| Tues (3/8) | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Black Lives Matter on Campus Too.” Al Jazeera America, Nov 29, 2015
Todd Gitlin, “Why Are Student Protesters So Fearful?” NY Times, Nov 21, 2015 Crenshaw “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait” The Washington Post, September 24, 2015 Caitlin Breedlove, “Gay Marriage to Ferguson” Huffington Post, October 2014 |
| Tues | Guest speaker, organizer Ahjamu Umi, SEIU Local 503 and All African People’s Revolutionary Party. |
| Thurs (3/10) | Guest speaker (Skype), Alicia Walters, Forward Together/Echoing Ida |
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