Blacksmythe

Here’s an updated syllabus:

Books:

A New Day in Babylon

Soul on Ice

The Spook Who Sat By the Door

Black Power

Movies:

Space is the Place

Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

When We Were Kings

Bamboozled

Articles:

“The Gary Declaration”  pp. 138-143 ”

“Questions and Answers about Black Studies”  pp. 160-171

“1968 Report of the Workshop on Education, Third International Conference of Black Power”, pp. 172-174

“From Separatist Economics: A New Social Contract”  pp. 176-181  (all in in Van Deburg, William Modern Black Nationalism)

Rebellion or Revolution pt. 1 (taken from Cobb, William Jelani [ed.] The Essential Harold Cruse)

“Enter the Middle Class” (Chap. 9 Baraka, Amiri Blues People)

“The Black Church and Black Power” pp. 223-239 (Van Deburg, Modern Black Nationalism)

Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music (Chaps. 5-7)

More readings on cultural production to be added by my co-teacher, Stanford Carpenter.

Bookmark It

Hide Sites