Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Diego Rivera, National Palace mural (c. 1929-1935)
• Marcos, Subcomandante, Our word is our weapon, Seven Stories Press, 2002
  • “Mexico City: We Have Arrived. We Are Here: The EZLN.” (2001), 155-162. 
  • “The Story of the Questions” (1994), 413-416. 
• Image gallery: Frida Kahlo

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• David 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).
• Codex Mendoz (c. 1541). Focus on pages 14, 36, 102, 124, and 132.

Assignment

• León Portilla, Miguel, Teotlatolli, Teocuilcatl: divine words, divine songs, Native Mesoamerican spirituality: ancient myths, discourses, stories, doctrines, hymns, poems from the Aztec, Yucatec, Quiche-Maya and other sacred traditions, pp. 135-144, Paulist Press, 1980
• Maffie, James, excerpt from "In Huehue Tlamanitiliztli and la Verdad: Nahua and European philosophies in Fray Bernardino de Sahagún’s Colloquios y doctrina cristiana", Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, pp. 1-4, 15-16, Texas A&M University, 2012
• “Beginning of the Songs” 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. 
• Recommended: Carrasco, “Cosmovision and Human Sacrifice,” The Aztecs, chapter 4. (E-book)

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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)

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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)

Assignment

• Lasso de la Vega, Luis, excerpt from "The Huei tlamahuiçoltica", The story of Guadalupe: Luis Laso de la Vega's Huei tlamahuiçoltica of 1649 , pp. 54-93, Stanford University Press, 1998
• Gallery: Tonāntzin, Virgin Mary, Basilica of Guadalupe 

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, “Loa to Narcissus,” in Poems, Protest, and a Dream, 195-239.
• Diana Taylor, "Performance and/as History." The Drama Review 50.1 (2006): 67-86.
• Selection from "The Relacion" in Tepoztlan: A Mexican Village. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press: 1973. 227-234. [Note, this text provides a translation of the speech delivered by the actor representing El Tepozteco as part of Tepoztlan's annual fiesta. For a description of the full performance, see Taylor's article and the lecture.]

Assignment

• Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream 
  • Decimas 130, 132 (p. 165)
  • Sonnet 161 (p. 179)
  • Redondilla 92: A Philosophical Satire,” 148-151.
  • “Reply to Sor Filotea,” 1-75. 

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Magali M. Carrera, “Locating Race in Late Colonial Mexico,” Art Journal 57.3 (1998): 36-45. 
• Gallery: casta paintings

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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)

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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)

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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. 

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Gallery: Diego Rivera, Secretaría de Educación Pública (Ministry of Public Education) murals (1923-28)
• Gallery: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Fernando Leal, and Jean Charlot, Colegio de San Ildefonso (College of San Ildefonso) murals (c. 1922-1927)
• Gallery: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Electricians’ Union mural (1939-1940)
• “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.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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 Tlatelolco (Biblioteca Era, Mexico, D.F. 1971), (Images only)

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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.
• Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 2

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 1
• 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.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 13.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• W.E.B Du Bois, “The Talented Tenth” (Appendix II from the Oxford World Classics edition of The Souls of Black Folk.)
• Charles Chesnutt, “The Disenfranchisement of the Negro.” (Google books PDF, which might be easier to print)
• Booker T. Washington, “Industrial Education for the Negro.” (Google books PDF, which might be easier to print)

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• James Weldon Johnson, “The Making of Harlem,” in Survey Graphic, 635-639.
• 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" p. 100-105

Assignment

• FIRE!!: Devoted to the Young Negro Artist (1926) in Negro Periodicals in the United States (Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970) 
  • Focus on the following sections: Richard Bruce Nugent, “Smoke, Lilies And Jade  A Novel, Part I” p.33-39, Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat” p.40-45
    

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapters 1-3, p. 1-25.
• 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. 
• 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.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapters 4-13, p. 26-128.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapters 14-20, p. 129-193.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• 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)

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• In The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, ed. Lewis:
  • Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues" and "Jazzonia" (pp. 260-261)
  • Langston Hughes, "The Blues I'm Playing" (pp. 619-627)
• Listening guide
• Listening assignment. All recordings, in order, can be found here (Click on "Hovda Blues" to see the song list). 
  • W.C. Handy, “St. Louis Blues”
  • Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, “St. Louis Blues”
  • Ida Cox, “Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues”
  • Ida Cox, “Graveyard Dream Blues”
  • Ma Rainey, “Runaway Blues”
  • Blind Willie Johnson, “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground”
  • Blind Willie Johnson, Willie B. Richardson, “The Soul of a Man”
  • Skip James, “Devil Got My Woman”
  • Count Basie, “Boogie Woogie Blues”
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe, “Strange Things Happening Every Day”
  • Chuck Berry, “Roll Over Beethoven"
  • Duke Ellington, "Happy Go Lucky Local" 

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• In The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, ed. Lewis:
  • Countee Cullen "Yet Do I Marvel," p. 244
  • Helene Johnson "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem," p.277 
  • Claude McKay "If We Must Die," p.290
  • James Weldon Johnson "The Creation" (from his book God's Trombones), p. 286
  • Langston Hughes, "Ruby Brown" and "Red Silk Stockings," p. 264
  • Sterling Brown, "Ma Rainey," p. 232
  • Gwendolyn Bennett, "Hatred," p. 223
    
    

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Ellison, Invisible Man, Prologue-chapter 4, p. 1-108 

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Ellison, Invisible Man, Chapters 5-10, p. 109-230 

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Ellison, Invisible Man, Chapters 11-16, p. 231-355

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Ellison, Invisible Man, chapters 17-22, p. 356-478.

Assignment

• Introduction and resources
• Ellison, Invisible Man, Chapters 23-epilogue, p. 479-581

• Lecture recording

Paul Hovda

• Lecture slides
• Lecture recording

Assignment

• No reading assignment