The below schedule of assignments is subject to change. By now, you’re used to be hearing folks tell you be flexible, but nevertheless, I’ll say it again. Be flexible. I may need to make adjustments to the assignment requirements and/or due dates. Know that whatever changes I make will be in the service of accessibility, feasibility, and continuity. If I add a reading that seems more conducive to a remote discussion (i.e. a short story that accompanies a film), I will also cut another assignment in order to ensure that the expected workload doesn’t increase.
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Date
Readings
Notes
1/20
OPTIONAL: “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” (April 3, 1968, Memphis, TN) by Martin Luther King Jr. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. AFSCME.org. <https://www.afscme.org/about/history/mlk/mountaintop> Accessed 1/17/22
Course Policies, Goals, etc.
1/27
Note: Wed., Jan 26 is the last day to add Read
“In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1972) by Alice Walker. This essay has been anthologized in Available Means: An Anthology of Women’S Rhetorics. Pittsburgh, PA: U Pittsburgh P, 2001. 314-322. You can access this anthology via the BC online library catalogue. You will need your BC Login credentials to access the JSTOR Books database.
“What is Africa to Me?: Reflection, Discernment, and Anticipation” by Charles H. Long. Journal of Africana Religions 1.1. (2013): 91-108. Project Muse. If the embedded link does not work, you can access this essay via the BC library page. You will need your BC Login credentials to do so.
Project Proposal Paragraph Due by 12pm (noon) Wednesday, February 1st.
2/3
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Excerpts from Ntozake Shange’s Dance We Do
2/10
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
“Oh she gotta head fulla hair” by Ntozake Shange
If the above link does not work, try this link: Shange.
2/17
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
McKittrick, Katherine. “Mathematics Black Life” The Black Scholar 44.2 (Summer 2014): 16-28. Posted on Katherinemckittrick.com under Publications. Accessed 2/4/2022.
Mohammed
2/24
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Jordan, June. “Nobody Mean More to Me” Posted by California State University, San Dominguez Hills. www.2.csudh.edu (Accessed 2/3/22)
Amanda
3/3
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Combahee River Collective Statement. Blackpast.org
Emily
Full Project Proposal Due Saturday, February 26 by 11:59 pm.
3/10
BREAK
Wed 3/16
AADS New Directions Lecture
Attendance Required
3/17
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Hurston, Zora Neale. “Characteristics of Negro Expression.” (1934) Ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African American Culture1892-1938. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2017. 355-364. JSTOR Books https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1j6675s.67 Accessed 2/4/22.
Fitgee
3/24
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
bell hooks – “Love as a Practice of Freedom” Posted on the UU College of Social Justice. uucsj.org (Accessed 2/3/22)
Optional:
“Girl” and “Blackness” by Jamaica Kincaid
“Sweetness” by Toni Morrison
Annabel
3/31
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Meredith Clark’s New Directions’ Series Lecture
Project Workshop Day (Bring “Show-and-Tell” material to workshop)
4/7
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Lorde, Audre. “Scratching the Surface: Some Notes on Barriers to Women and Loving.” The Black Scholar. The Best of the Black Scholar: The Black Woman II. 13 : 4/5 (Summer 1982): 20-24. JSTOR ARTS & SCIENCE XI <doi: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41068063> Accessed 2/4/22.
Lorde, Audre. “Uses of the Erotic.”
Pam
Project Check In Due Saturday April 9st by 12:00 pm (noon).
4/14
NO CLASS – HOLY THURSDAY
4/21
Sassafras, Cypress, & Indigo by Ntozake Shange
Kincaid, Jamaica. “Blackness”
Smith, Barbara. “Towards a Black Feminist Criticism” The Radical Teacher 7 (March 1978): 20-27 JSTOR <https://www.jstor.org/stable/20709102> Accessed 2/4/22.
OR McKittrick, Katherine. “Rebellion, Invention, Groove.”
Optional: Danticat, Edwidge. “New York Day Women”
Carmen
4/28
Watch Film
Tuesday 5/3: Last day to meet with the professor to work out a plan for late assignments, incompletes, or other emergency accommodations. Accommodation request after this date will need to be made through the dean’s office.
5/5
Presentation Day
LAST DAY OF CLASS
Journals Due – Monday, May 9th by 11:59pm
5/6 – 5/9
STUDY DAYS
5/10 – 5/17
EXAMS WEEK
Project Part 1 of 2 Due, Wednesday, May 11 by 11:59 pm.
Project Part 2 of 2 Due Thursday May 12th by 11:59 pm.
EVAL 1 EXC – Email me a screenshot of the screen that indicates you have completed and submitted the official BC course evaluation for our course. May 13th at 11:59 pm.