{"id":10,"date":"2019-02-01T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/aas303\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2019-02-19T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T20:15:15","slug":"syllabus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/aas303\/syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a condensed version of the syllabus for From Haiti to Ferguson: The Global Black Freedom Struggle since Slavery. For a complete version, including assignments and class policies see Blackboard or email the professor, Dr. Jessica Ann Levy (jalevy@princeton.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n

COURSE SCHEDULE<\/strong><\/p>\n

WEEK 1\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A Black World? Re-Conceptualizing African American History in a Global Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, Feb. 4\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Introduction<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Feb. 6<\/p>\n

Reading:\u00a0 Tiffany Ruby Patterson and Robin D.G. Kelley, “Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World,”\u00a0African Studies Review\u00a0<\/em>43, no. 1 (2000): 11-45<\/p>\n

WEEK 2\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Haiti — The Revolution Felt Around the World<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, Feb. 11<\/p>\n

Reading: Michael O. West and William G. Martin, \u201cThe Haitian Revolution and the Forging of the Black International,\u201d in From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International Since the Age of Revolution, <\/em>eds. Michael West, William Martin, and Fanon Che Wilkins (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009): 72-106.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Feb. 13<\/p>\n

Reading: Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History <\/em>(Boston: Beacon Press, 1995), 1-69.<\/p>\n

History-in-Action #1 (Un-Silencing the Past\u2014Blog Post)<\/em><\/p>\n

WEEK 3\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Ships at Sea — Between Slavery and Citizenship<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, Feb. 18<\/p>\n

Reading: Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. H\u00e9brard, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation <\/em>(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014), 6-48.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Feb. 20<\/p>\n

Reading:\u00a0Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. H\u00e9brard, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation <\/em>(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014), 49-99.<\/p>\n

WEEK 4\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(E)migrating Towards Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, Feb. 25<\/p>\n

Reading: Robert S. Levine, ed. Martin R. Delany: A Documentary\u00a0 Reader <\/em>(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 181-186, 240-244, 315- 324, 325-357.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Feb. 27<\/p>\n

Reading: Lara Putnam, \u201cNothing Matters but Color: Transnational Circuits, the Interwar Caribbean, and the Black International,\u201d in From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International Since the Age of Revolution, <\/em>eds. Michael West, William Martin, and Fanon Che Wilkins (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 107-129.<\/p>\n

History-in-Action #2 (Op-Ed: Stay or Leave?\u2014Emigration in The Era of Trump) <\/em><\/p>\n

WEEK 5\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Sensing Bodies, Recovering Diaspora<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, March 4<\/p>\n

Reading:\u00a0Jenifer L. Barclay, \u201c\u2018The Greatest Degree of Perfection\u2019: Disability and the Construction of Race in American Slave Law,\u201d South Carolina Review, <\/em>46, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 28-43.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 6<\/p>\n

Reading: Tina Campt, \u201cThe Motion of Stillness: Diaspora, Stasis, and Black Vernacular Photography\u201d in Remapping Black Germany, <\/em>edited by Sara Lennox (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016), 149-170.<\/p>\n

History-in-Action #3 DUE (Accessing Struggle)<\/em><\/p>\n

WEEK 6\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A Nation is Born<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, March 11<\/p>\n

Readings: Keisha N. Blain, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom <\/em>(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).<\/p>\n

W.E.B. Du Bois, \u201cTo the Nations of the World\u201d (1900)<\/p>\n

_________________, \u201cPan-Africanism: A Mission in My Life,\u201d United Asia <\/em>(April 1955)<\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 9<\/p>\n

NO READING<\/p>\n

\u201cImagineering the Black World\u201d Essay Due<\/em><\/p>\n

WEEK 7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 No Classes — SPRING BREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n

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WEEK 8\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fighting for Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, March 25<\/p>\n

Readings: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941 State of the Union Address \u201cThe Four Freedoms,\u201d January 6, 1941.<\/p>\n

Noelle Trent, \u201cEaster 1942, A Reflection on the Double Victory Campaign,\u201d Black Perspectives,\u00a0<\/em>April 4, 2015, https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/easter-1942-a-reflection-on-the-double-victory-campaign\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Wednesday, March 27<\/p>\n

Reading: Michael Cullen Green, Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II <\/em>(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010), 1-29.<\/p>\n

Accessing Freedom Concept Paper DUE<\/em><\/p>\n

WEEK 9\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Global Solidarity or Cold War Diplomacy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 1<\/p>\n

Readings: Nico Slate, Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India <\/em>(Cambridge: Harvard University Press), 202-242.<\/p>\n

\u201cRandolph to Adopt Gandhi Technique,\u201d The Chicago Defender, <\/em>January 9, 1943: 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizens Repudiate Non-Violence Program: Feel Gandhi\u2019s Way Is Not Comparable to U.S. Situation,\u201d The Pittsburgh Courier, The Pittsburgh Courier, <\/em>April 24, 1943.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 3<\/p>\n

Reading: Penny Von Eschen, \u201cThe Goodwill Ambassador: Duke Ellington\u2019s State Department Tours,\u201d in Casey Blake ed., The Arts of American Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State <\/em>(Washington D.C.\/Philadelphia: Woodrow Wilson Center Press\/University of Pennsylvania, 2007), 151-170.<\/p>\n

In-Class: Watch Clips from Black Panther<\/em><\/p>\n

History-in-Action #4 (Review of Wakanda)<\/em><\/p>\n

WEEK 10\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Black Power Reconsidered in Global Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 8<\/p>\n

Reading: Nikhl Singh, \u201cThe Black Panthers and the \u2018Underdeveloped Country,\u2019 of the Left,\u201d in Charles E. Jones, ed., The Black Panther Party Reconsidered: Reflections and Scholarship <\/em>(Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998), 57-105.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 10<\/p>\n

Reading: Anne-Marie Angelo, \u201cThe Black Panthers in London, 1967-1972: A Diasporic Struggle Navigates the Black Atlantic,\u201d Radical History Review,\u00a0<\/em>Vol. 2009, NO. 103 (Winter 2009): 17-35.<\/p>\n

WEEK 11\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 From Anti-Apartheid to Hip-Hop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 15<\/p>\n

Reading: Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Race for Sanctions: African-Americans against apartheid, 1946-1994 <\/em>(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 1-26, 97-122.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 17<\/p>\n

Reading: Marc D. Perry, \u201cHip Hop\u2019s Diasporic Landscapes of Blackness,\u201d in From Toussaint to Tupac: The Black International Since the Age of Revolution,\u00a0<\/em>eds. Michael West, William Martin, and Fanon Che Wilkins (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), 232-258.<\/p>\n

WEEK 12\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 THE PAST IS PRESENT–21st CENTURY STRUGGLES<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 22<\/p>\n

Reading: Juliet E. K. Walker, \u201cNeocolonialism in the African Diaspora?: Black American Business Competition in South Africa,\u201d in Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola, eds., Black Business and Economic Power <\/em>(University of Rochester Press, 2002): 539-571.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 24<\/p>\n

Readings:<\/p>\n

Julianne Hing, \u201c\u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 Goes International,\u201d Color Lines, <\/em>January 30, 2015,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/www.colorlines.com\/articles\/black-lives-matter-goes-international<\/a>.<\/u><\/p>\n

Amien Essif, In These Times, <\/em>\u201cHow Black Lives Matter Has Spread Into a Global Movement to End Racist Policing,\u201d June 29, 2015,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/18042\/black-lives-matter-in-europe-too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c27 Stunning Photos of #BlackLivesMatter Protests From Around the Globe,\u201d World Mic, <\/em>December 7, 2014,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/105882\/27-stunning-photos-of-black-lives-matter-protests-from-around-the-globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

History-in-Action #5 (Archiving the Present)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

WEEK 13\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Accessing Freedom Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 29<\/p>\n

Presentations<\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday, May 1<\/p>\n

Presentations<\/em><\/p>\n

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Final Accessing Freedom Projects Due: Friday, May 10, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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