Syllabus | Spring 2021
Coming Up
Mon 19 Apr
Assignment
Listening assignment:
- Charlie Parker, “Wee,” from Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
- Barry Harris, “Moose the Mooche,” from At the Jazz Workshop (1960)
- Oscar Peterson, “You Look Good to Me,” from We Get Requests (1964)
- McCoy Tyner, “Passion Dance,” from The Real McCoy (1967)
Lecture: TBA
Peter Steinberger
Wed 21 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 21-30
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 1-108 (chapters 1-4).
Lecture: TBA
Pancho Savery
Fri 23 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 21-30
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 109-230 (chapters 5-10).
Lecture: TBA
Jin Chang
Course Logistics
REQUIRED TEXTS:
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings, trans. Margaret Sayers Peden (New York: Penguin Books, 1997).
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (New York: Vintage International, 1980).
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (New York: Harper Perennial, 2006).
- David Levering Lewis, ed., The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (New York: Penguin, 1994).
- Alain Locke, ed., Survey Graphic; Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro (Baltimore: Black Classic Books, 1980).
- Jean Toomer, Cane (New York: Liveright, 2011). Note: Cane is in the public domain and can be accessed through Project Gutenberg here.
The following book includes required readings for some days and recommended readings for others. You may purchase it at the bookstore or access it for free as an e-book via the library website:
- Davíd Carrasco, The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) [E-book].
Additional readings are available on e-reserves and through online galleries, accessible via links embedded in the syllabus below. You will need your Reed username and password to access these texts. Please bring a copy of the day’s reading assignment to class each day. The library has on reserve a limited number of each required text.
CONFERENCE ASSIGNMENTS
Humanities 110 is a yearlong course, and students are expected to remain in the same conference throughout the year. In cases of absolutely unresolvable schedule conflicts, students may petition for a change of conference time. Petitions (in the form of an email) should be addressed to the course Chair, Paul Hovda, including an explanation of the conflict and why it cannot be resolved. Students granted a change of conference time will be assigned to new sections based on available slots and the student’s schedule; requests to move into a particular conference generally cannot be honored.
PAPERS AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
Three course-wide papers will be assigned in the fall semester, due at the times designated on the syllabus. Individual conference leaders may assign additional writing. If the due date for an assignment conflicts with a religious holiday or obligation that you wish to observe, please consult with your conference leader.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS
If you have a documented disability requiring accommodations, please contact Disability Support Services. Notifications of accommodations on exams, papers, other writing assignments, or conferences should be directed to your conference leader. Notifications of accommodations regarding lectures can be directed to the chair of the course, Paul Hovda. You are advised to consult with your conference leader about how your accommodations might apply to specific assignments or circumstances in this course.
RESOURCES FOR SUPPORT
Your conference leader is your first line of support for any questions you have about the course. Please also be sure to explore the Hum 110 website for additional information. The Course Resources page provides brief introductions to upcoming readings and suggestions for how to approach them. The Writing in Hum 110 page provides tips on the writing process.
The Writing Center is a particularly valuable resource for Hum 110 students working on papers. You can get help with all stages of the writing process from peer tutors at the Writing Center. In Fall 2020, the Writing Center will be virtual, and offer drop-in help online from 7:00-10:00p.m. Pacific time; you can find links to the Writing Center session posted on the Drop-in Tutoring Schedule website. Extra tutoring help will be available in the weeks leading up to paper due dates.
For additional information about support resources available to you on the Reed campus, please see Student Life’s Key Support Resources for Students.If you have questions that aren’t answered here, please consult your conference leader or email Hum110@reed.edu.
Schedule of Readings and Lectures
Week 1
Mon 25 Jan
Assignment
- David M. Carballo, “Mesoamerica: A Deep History,”Collisions of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 16-49.
- Gallery: Teotihuacan
Lecture: "Where Divinity Comes into Being: Teotihuacan and Mesoamerica"
Tom Landvatter
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Wed 27 Jan
Assignment
- Davíd Carrasco, “Aztec Foundations: Aztlan, Cities, People,” The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 2. (E-book)
- Gallery: Tira de la peregrinación / Boturini Codex (c. 1530-1541).
- Translations of folios 1-18r, Codex Mendoza, ed. Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), Vol. IV, 7-41 (blank pages omitted). [suitable for printing]
- Facsimiles of folios 1-18r (color images), Codex Mendoza, Vol. III, 9-43 (blank pages omitted). [large file; best viewed on computer screen]
Lecture: "We walked a long time to get here; We have been here forever"
Nathalia King
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Fri 29 Jan
Assignment
- Translations of folios 1-18r, Codex Mendoza, ed. Frances F. Berdan and Patricia Rieff Anawalt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), Vol. IV, 7-41 (blank pages omitted). [suitable for printing]
- Facsimiles of folios 1-18r (color images), Codex Mendoza, Vol. III, 9-43 (blank pages omitted). [large file; best viewed on computer screen]
- Facsimiles of folios 18v-19r, 37v-38r, 45v-46r, Codex Mendoza, Vol. III, 44-45, 82-83, 98-99.
- Translations of folios 18v-19r, 37v-38r, 45v-46r, Codex Mendoza, Vol. IV, 42-43, 80-81, 96-97.
- Recommended: Carrasco, “Aztec Expansion Through Conquest and Trade,” The Aztecs, chapter 3. (E-book)
Lecture: “Representing Mexica Imperialism in a Place and Time of Spanish Imperialism: The Codex Mendoza”
David Garrett
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Week 2
Mon 1 Feb
Assignment
- Barbara E. Mundy, “Mapping the Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings,” Imago Mundi 50.1 (1998), 11-33.
- “The Birth of Huitzilopochtli, Patron God of the Aztecs,” Native Mesoamerican Spirituality, ed. Miguel León-Portilla, (New York: Paulist Press, 1982), 220-225.
- Gallery: Templo Mayor and city of Tenochtitlan
- Recommended: Carrasco, “Cosmovision and Human Sacrifice,” The Aztecs, chapter 4. (E-book)
Lecture: “Mapping the Cosmos at the Templo Mayor”
Margot Minardi
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Wed 3 Feb
Assignment
- “Beginning of the Songs,” “A Song of Green Places, an Otomi Song, a Plain One,” and “Another to the Same Tone, a Plain One,” in Cantares Mexicanos: Songs of the Aztecs, trans. John Bierhorst (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1985), 134-139.
- Aquiauhtzin of Ayapanco, “Warrior Women of Chalco,” Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World, (Norman: University of Nebraska Press), 255-282.
- Recommended: Carrasco, “Wordplay, Philosophy, Sculpture,” The Aztecs, chapter 6. (E-book)
Lecture: "Flower: Song"
Laura Leibman
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Alternate translation of the Chalcan poem
- Lecture recording
Fri 5 Feb
Assignment
- Florentine Codex book 12, in We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, ed. and trans. James Lockhart (Berkeley: University of California Press), 1992, 108-172.
- Bernal Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain, trans. J. M. Cohen (London: Penguin, 1963), 284-307.
- Recommended: Carrasco, “Fall of the Aztec Empire,” The Aztecs, chapter 7. (E-book)
Lecture: "From Conquest to Colonialism"
David Garrett
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Week 3
Mon 8 Feb
Assignment
- Introduction to the Lienzo de Tlaxcala, Mesolore. This site also includes an interactive recreation of the whole Lienzo de Tlaxacala. The numbers on the image correspond to annotations; click on them to see the description. To hide these numbers, click on “Hide Highlights” in the lower left hand corner.
- Gallery: Lienzo de Tlaxcala
- Bernal Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain (London: Penguin, 1963), 85-88.
- Recommended: Carrasco, “Women and Children: Weavers of Life and Precious Necklaces,” The Aztecs, chapter 5. (E-book)
Lecture: "Lienzo de Tlaxacala"
Carmen Ripollés (PSU)
- Course resources
- Lecture recording
- Lecture slides
- Gallery: Lienzo de Tlaxcala (Complete)
- Lienzo de Tlaxcala (Reconstruction) This pdf is 1.8 GB and must be downloaded first to view it.
Wed 10 Feb
Assignment
- “Sacrifice of Isaac,” in Nahuatl Theater Volume I: Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico, eds. Barry D. Sell and Louise M. Burkhart (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2004), 147-163.
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Loa to Narcissus,” in Poems, Protest, and a Dream, 195-239.
- “Excerpt from the Nahuatl Story of the Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, 1649” in Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala, ed. Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 196-201.
Lecture: "The 'Spiritual Conquest' of Mexico? Questions and Complications"
Elizabeth Drumm
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Fri 12 Feb
Assignment
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “First I Dream,” in Poems, Protest, and a Dream, 77-129.
Lecture: "SOR JUANA’S “FIRST DREAM” AND BAROQUE POETICS"
Ariadna García-Bryce
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Week 4
Mon 15 Feb
Assignment
- “Excerpt from the Nahuatl Story of the Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, 1649” in Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala, ed. Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 196-201.
- In Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream:
- “Reply to Sor Filotea,” 1-75.
- “Redondilla 92: A Philosophical Satire,” 148-151.
- Decimas 130, 132 (p. 165)
- Sonnet 161 (p. 179)
Lecture: “Sex & Passion in the Poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”
Laura Leibman
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Wed 17 Feb
Assignment
- Magali M. Carrera, “Locating Race in Late Colonial Mexico,” Art Journal 57.3 (1998): 36-45.
- John Tutino, “Terms of Analysis: New Spain in Spanish America,” introductory maps, and “From Mexica Capital to Silver Metropolis, 1350-1770,” in Mexico City, 1808: Power, Sovereignty, and Silver in an Age of War and Revolution (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018), xiv-xxiv, 21-34.
- Gallery: casta paintings
Lecture: “Racecraft & Casta Paintings”
Laura Leibman
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Thu 18 Feb
Optional lecture sponsored by the Lit. and Lang. Division
“Architectures of the Flesh”
Zakiyyah Jackson (USC)
5:15 PM, Register: https://events.reed.edu/event/architectures_of_the_flesh#.X_yOZ6pKiDW
Fri 19 Feb
Assignment
Note: the lecturer advises that you begin watching the lecture before beginning the reading for today.- Selections from The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics, ed. Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002).
- José Maria Morelos, “Sentiments of the Nation” (1813), 189-191.
- Agustín de Iturbide, “Plan of Iguala” (1821), 192-195.
- Editors of El Tiempo, “A Conservative Profession of Faith” (1846), 220-225.
- Mariano Otero, “Considerations Relating to the Political and Social Situation of the Mexican Republic in the Year 1847” (1847), 226-238.
- Gallery: Diego Rivera, National Palace mural (c. 1929-1935)
Lecture: “Turning Points: Mexico in the Nineteenth Century”
Margot Minardi
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
- Rivera animation
Fri 19 Feb
Optional lecture sponsored by American Studies, German dept., and Music dept.
"On Beethoven, Blackness, and Belonging: Listening to German Music in the Black Atlantic"
Kira Thurman (University of Michigan)
4:00 PM, Register: https://events.reed.edu/event/kira_thurman_on_beethoven_blackness_and_belonging_listening_to_german_music_in_the_black_atlantic#.YAn9M6pKhUM
Sun 21 Feb
Week 5
Mon 22 Feb
Assignment
- Gallery: Diego Rivera, National Palace mural (c. 1929-1935)
- Branch, H.N., trans., The Mexican Constitution of 1917 compared with the Mexican Constitution of 1857, (American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1917), 1-3, 15-32, 94-113,
- “The Plan de Ayala” (1911), in John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1970), 400-404.
- Zapata and Villa in Mexico City, 1914, 120 seconds (video)
Lecture: "Modernity and the Mexican Revolution"
David Garrett
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Wed 24 Feb
Assignment
- Gallery: Diego Rivera - Secretaria de Educacion Publica Murals
- Gallery: Davíd Alfaro Siqueiros, Electricians’ Union Mural
- “Manifesto of the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors” (1923-1924), in Mexican Muralism: A Critical History, ed. Alejandra Anreus, Leonard Folgarait, and Robin Adèle Greeley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), 319-321.
- Robin Adèle Greeley, “Muralism and the State in Post-Revolution Mexico, 1920-1970,” in Mexican Muralism: A Critical History, 13-36.
Lecture: “Mexican Muralism, 1920-1940”
William Diebold
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Fri 26 Feb
Assignment
- Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned), directed by Luis Buñuel (1950).
- Cesare Zavattini, “Some Ideas on the Cinema,” Sight and Sound 23.2 (1953): 64-69.
- Luis Buñuel, “The Cinematic Shot,” “Découpage, or Cinematic Segmentation,” and “Cinema as an Instrument of Poetry,” in An Unspeakable Betrayal: Selected Writings of Luis Buñuel, trans. Garrett White (Oakland: University of California Press, 1995), 125-141.
Lecture: "Los Olvidados: Space, Violence, Dream"
Marat Grinberg
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Week 6
Mon 1 Mar
Assignment
- Nancy Deffebach, “Introduction,” María Izquierdo and Frida Kahlo: Challenging Visions in Modern Mexican Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015), 1-34.
- Gallery: María Izquierdo
- Gallery: Frida Kahlo
Lecture: “Gender and Genre, Modernism and Mexicanidad: Frida Kahlo and María Izquierdo”
Gail Sherman
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Wed 3 Mar
Assignment
- Elena Poniatowska, Massacre in Mexico (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1991), vii-xvii, 3-23, 173-231.
- Pages vii-xvii, 3-23, 171-172, 199-231 (Text only)
- Pages 173-198 (Images only)
- Elena Poniatowska, La Noche de Tlateloco (Biblioteca Era, Mexico, D.F. 1971), (Images only)
Lecture: “Representation and its Discontents”
Jan Mieszkowski
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Fri 5 Mar
Assignment
- Selections from Subcomandante Marcos, Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings, ed. Juana Ponce de León (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001).
- “Fourth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle” (1996), 78-81.
- “Mexico City: We Have Arrived. We Are Here: The EZLN.” (2001), 155-162.
- “The Story of the Questions” (1994), 413-416.
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation, “6th Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle” (June 2005).
- Zapatista Women’s Revolutionary Law
Lecture: “The Inconvenience of Revolution: Zapatismo, Cynicism, Dignity and Memory”
Christian Kroll
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Week 7
Mon 8 Mar
Assignment
- Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, in Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900, 2nd ed., ed. Jacqueline Jones Royster (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016), 46-68.
- Booker T. Washington, “The Atlanta Exposition Address,” in Up from Slavery (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003), 141-151.
- Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, chapter 3.
Lecture: "Strange Fruit"
Pancho Savery
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Wed 10 Mar
Lecture: No lecture
Fri 12 Mar
Assignment
- Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, chapters 1 and 2.
Lecture: “W.E.B. DuBois's "Double Consciousness" as Theory and Form: “What I have briefly sketched in large outline, let me tell again in many ways””
Nathalia King
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Week 8
Mon 15 Mar
Assignment
- Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, chapter 14.
- Zora Neale Hurston, “Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals,” in The Sanctified Church (Berkeley, Calif.: Turtle Island, 1983), 79-84.
- Alain Locke, “The Negro Spirituals,” in The New Negro, ed. Locke (1925; rpt. New York: Touchstone, 1992), 199-213.
- James Weldon Johnson, “O Black and Unknown Bards,” in The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, ed. Lewis, 282-283.
- Deacon A. Wilson and Congregation, "Certainly, Lord" (1926)
- Marian Anderson, “Go Down, Moses” (1924)
- Paul Robeson, “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?” (1936)
- Hosea Williams and Selma Marchers, “Steal Away” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” (1965)
- Moses Hogan Chorale, “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel?” (c. 2000)
Lecture: "WHO, HOW, AND WHY NOT?: QUESTIONING AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUALS"
Mark Burford
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Wed 17 Mar
Assignment
- Jacob Lawrence, Migration Series (1940-1941), Phillips Collection.
- Browse the thumbnails, including the titles (titles are visible if you hover the mouse over an image). Then, explore the full series (60 panels) panel-by-panel, starting with panel 1. You can advance to the next panel by clicking the down arrow below “panel 1” on the upper right of the screen.
- Gallery: W.E.B. Du Bois data portraits.
Lecture: "Moving the Color Line: Jacob Lawrence's "Migration Series"
Nathalia King
- Course resources
- Lecture handout - Word and PDF
- Lecture recording
Fri 19 Mar
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for March 19
- James Weldon Johnson, “The Making of Harlem,” in Survey Graphic, 635-639.
- Saidiya Hartman, “A Note on Method,” “Mistah Beauty: the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Woman, Select Scenes from a Film Never Cast by Oscar Micheaux, Harlem, 1920s,” “Revolution in a Minor Key,” “Wayward: A Short Entry on the Possible,” and “The Anarchy of Colored Girls Assembled in a Riotous Manner,” in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (New York: Norton, 2019), xiii-xvi, 192-202, 216-256.
Lecture: “Harlem, New York: City Within a City”
Margot Minardi
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Week 9
Mon 22 Mar
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for March 22-24
- W.E.B. Du Bois, “Credo” and “Souls of White Folk,” in Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, (New York, Schocken Books, 1969), vii-viii, 3-4, 29-52.
- W.E.B. Du Bois, “Returning Soldiers,” in The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, ed. Lewis, 3-5.
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, chapter 13
Lecture: "White Supremacy, Black Democracy: W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP"
Paddy Riley
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Wed 24 Mar
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for March 22-24
- Universal Negro Improvement Association, “Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World” (1920).
- Amy Ashwood Garvey, “The Birth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association,” in The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond, ed. Tony Martin (Dover, Mass.: Majority Press, 1983), 219-226.
- Marcus Garvey, “Africa for the Africans” and “Liberty Hall Emancipation Day Speech,” in The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, ed. Lewis, 17-28.
Lecture: "The World in Harlem, Harlem in the World"
Radhika Natarajan
Fri 26 Mar
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for March 26-29
- Toomer, Cane, 3-75.
Lecture: "PERFECT AS DUSK"
Pancho Savery
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Fri 26 Mar
Week 10
Mon 29 Mar
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for March 26-29
- Toomer, Cane, 76-160.
Lecture: "Formal Innovation and Tragic Beauty in Jean Toomer's Cane"
Dustin Simpson
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Wed 31 Mar
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for March 31
- Survey Graphic
- Cover;
- Table of contents and "The Gist of It" (p. 627);
- Locke, "Harlem" pp. 629-30;
- Locke, "Enter the New Negro pp. 631-34;
- Reiss, "Harlem Types" pp. 651-54
- Locke, "The Art of the Ancestors" p. 673.
- In The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, ed. Lewis:
- Du Bois, "Criteria of Negro Art" pp. 100-105.
Lecture: "ALAIN LOCKE, HARLEM, RENAISSANCE"
Paul Hovda
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Fri 2 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 2
- In The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, ed. Lewis:
- Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” 91–95.
- George S. Schuyler, “The Negro-Art Hokum,” 96–99.
- Helene Johnson, “Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem” and “Poem,” 277–278
- Langston Hughes, “The Weary Blues,” 260–261.
Lecture: "Africa, Poetry, and the Blues in the Harlem Renaissance"
Dustin Simpson
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
- Poems read by Langston Hughes:
- "The Weary Blues" on CBUT, 1958
Week 11
Mon 5 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 5
- In The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, ed. Lewis:
- Gwendolyn Bennett, “Song,” 221–222, “Hatred,” 223.
- Claude McKay, “The Tropics in New York,” 292, “The Desolate City,” 294–296.
- Anne Spencer, “Lady, Lady,” 299.
Lecture: “Poetry and Politics”
Jan Mieszkowski
Wed 7 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 7-9
- Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1-115 (chapters 1-12).
- Zora Neale Hurston, “What White Publishers Won’t Print,” in I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader, ed. Alice Walker (Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1979), 169-173.
Lecture: “Black, Feminist, Modernist: Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Gail Sherman
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
- Log-in to access audio files of Their Eyes Were Watching God, read by Ruby Dee.
Fri 9 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 7-9
- Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 116-193 (chapters 13-20).
Lecture: "From Mules to Men, Animals in Their Eyes were Watching God”
Kritish Rajbhandari
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Sat 10 Apr
Spring Break
April 10 – April 18
Week 12
Mon 19 Apr
Assignment
Listening assignment:
- Charlie Parker, “Wee,” from Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
- Barry Harris, “Moose the Mooche,” from At the Jazz Workshop (1960)
- Oscar Peterson, “You Look Good to Me,” from We Get Requests (1964)
- McCoy Tyner, “Passion Dance,” from The Real McCoy (1967)
Lecture: TBA
Peter Steinberger
Wed 21 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 21-30
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 1-108 (chapters 1-4).
Lecture: TBA
Pancho Savery
Fri 23 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 21-30
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 109-230 (chapters 5-10).
Lecture: TBA
Jin Chang
Week 13
Mon 26 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 21-30
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 231-355 (chapters 11-16).
Lecture: TBA
Sonia Sabnis
Wed 28 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 21-30
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 356-478 (chapters 17-22).
- W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Negro and the Warsaw Ghetto” (1952), in The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois Reader, ed. Eric J. Sundquist (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 469-473.
Lecture: TBA
Marat Grinberg
Fri 30 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources for April 21-30
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 479-581 (chapter 23-epilogue).