AFR 337
The Black Protest Tradition in America from Prince Hall to Black Lives Matter Fall 2016
Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed AMST 337 / ENGL 336
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This course examines the development of various overlapping African American and Afro-Caribbean protest traditions in the past two hundred years, such as Abolitionism, early reparations movements, the civil rights movements, the Black Panthers, black feminism, and Black Lives Matter. We will read a variety of speeches, essays, poems, songs, sermons, and pamphlets by writers, activists, and artists such as David Walker, Robert Wedderburn, Anna Julia Cooper, Ella Baker, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, George Jackson, and the Combahee River Collective. We will also examine the documents and online-syllabi of the Black Lives Matter movement. This course fulfills the EDI requirement as its points of focus are race formation in the US and the black liberation tradition that developed in opposition to racist legal and social norms both at home and abroad.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 19
Class#: 2017
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: 3 response papers (4-5, 5-6 and 6-7 pages) during the course of the semester. Students will also prepare in-class presentations and participate in discussion
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites: a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences: english majors
Distributions: Division II Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: Distribution Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ENGL; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AFR or AMST
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AMST 337 Division II AFR 337 Division II ENGL 336 Division I
Attributes: ENGL Literary Histories C

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