Syllabus | Spring 2022
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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). Note: This book is in the public domain and can be accessed through Project Gutenberg here.
- 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 OTHER ASSIGNMENTS
Three course-wide papers will be assigned in the spring 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. Over the course of the semester, students are also required to submit at least three conference discussion questions, in writing, to their conference leader. Due dates for these questions are determined by individual conference leaders.
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 Introduction and Resources entries on the lecture schedule 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
Week 1
Mon 24 Jan
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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 (best viewed using Safari or Chrome)
Lecture: "WHERE DIVINITY COMES INTO BEING: TEOTIHUACAN AND MESOAMERICA"
Tom Landvatter
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Wed 26 Jan
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Fri 28 Jan
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.
- 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
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Week 2
Mon 31 Jan
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
- Recommended: Carrasco, “Cosmovision and Human Sacrifice,” The Aztecs, chapter 4. (E-book)
Lecture: “MAPPING THE COSMOS AT THE TEMPLO MAYOR”
Margot Minardi
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Wed 2 Feb
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- “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
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
- Alternate translation of the Chalcan poem
Fri 4 Feb
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)
Lecture: "From Invasion to Colonialism"
David Garrett
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Week 3
Mon 7 Feb
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)
Lecture: "LIENZO DE TLAXACALA"
CARMEN RIPOLLÉS (PSU)
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
- Gallery: Lienzo de Tlaxcala (Complete)
- Digitized version of the Lienzo de Tlaxcala housed at UNAM's website. (webpage is in Spanish)
Wed 9 Feb
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- “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
- Lecture handout - Word and PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Fri 11 Feb
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Sat 12 Feb
Week 4
Mon 14 Feb
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- “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
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Wed 16 Feb
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Fri 18 Feb
Assignment
Note: the lecturer advises that you begin watching the lecture before beginning the reading for today.- 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)
Lecture: “TURNING POINTS: MEXICO IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY”
Margot Minardi
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
- Rivera animation
Week 5
Mon 21 Feb
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)
Lecture: "MODERNITY AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION"
David Garrett
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Tue 22 Feb
Optional lecture sponsored by the departments of history, humanities, and Spanish, and the Office for Institutional Diversity
Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico
Alan Shane Dillingham, citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Albright College.
5:00 PM, Vollum lecture hall
Wed 23 Feb
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Fri 25 Feb
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.
Lecture: "LOS OLVIDADOS: SPACE, VIOLENCE, DREAM"
Marat Grinberg
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Week 6
Mon 28 Feb
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
Lecture: “GENDER AND GENRE, MODERNISM AND MEXICANIDAD: FRIDA KAHLO AND MARÍA IZQUIERDO”
Gail Sherman
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Wed 2 Mar
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)
Lecture: “REPRESENTATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS”
JAN MIESZKOWSKI
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Fri 4 Mar
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
Lecture: “THE INCONVENIENCE OF REVOLUTION: ZAPATISMO, CYNICISM, DIGNITY AND MEMORY”
Christian Kroll
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Week 7
Mon 7 Mar
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.
- 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
- Lecture recording
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
Wed 9 Mar
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
- Lecture slides
Fri 11 Mar
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.
- 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
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Sat 12 Mar
Week 8
Mon 14 Mar
Assignment
- Charles W. Chesnutt, The Wife of His Youth, The wife of His Youth, and other Stories of the Color Line, pp. 1-24, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. PDF version.
- Du Bois’ “The Talented Tenth” essay (Appendix II from the Oxford World Classics edition of The Souls of Black Folk.)
Lecture: "Fictions of Uplift: Education and the Color Line"
Sarah Wagner-McCoy
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Wed 16 Mar
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.
Lecture: "MOVING THE COLOR LINE: JACOB LAWRENCE'S "MIGRATION SERIES"
Nathalia King
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Fri 18 Mar
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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
Sat 19 Mar
Spring Break
March 19 – March 27
Week 9
Mon 28 Mar
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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 30 Mar
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.
Lecture: "THE WORLD IN HARLEM, HARLEM IN THE WORLD"
RADHIKA NATARAJAN
Fri 1 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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 recording
Week 10
Mon 4 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- Toomer, Cane, 3-75.
Lecture: "Women and the Stake of Sex in Jean Toomer's Cane"
Jin Chang
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Wed 6 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- Toomer, Cane, 76-160.
Lecture: "FORMAL INNOVATION AND TRAGIC BEAUTY IN JEAN TOOMER'S CANE"
Dustin Simpson
- Lecture handout - Word and PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Fri 8 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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.
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Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel," 244.
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Claude McKay, "If We Must Die," 290 "The White House," 291 "The Harlem Dancer," 296.
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Helene Johnson, "My Race," "A Southern Road," "Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem," "Poem," 276-278.
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Gwendolyn Bennet, "Hatred," 223.
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James Weldon Johnson, "The Creation," 286-288.
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Sterling Brown,"Odyssey of Big Boy," 229-231
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Langston Hughes, poems, 257-267
Lecture: "Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance"
Dustin Simpson
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
Week 11
Mon 11 Apr
Assignment
- Conference leader's choice.
Lecture: No lecture
Wed 13 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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: "Hungry Listening"
Elizabeth Drumm
- Lecture slides
- Lecture recording
- Audio files of Their Eyes Were Watching God, read by Ruby Dee.
Fri 15 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- 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 16 Apr
Week 12
Mon 18 Apr
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.
- 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"
Lecture: "The Many-Sided Blues"
Paul Hovda
Wed 20 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 1-108 (chapters 1-4).
Lecture: "IS YOU GOT THE DOG?"
Pancho Savery
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Fri 22 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 109-230 (chapters 5-10).
Lecture: "Invisible Man: An Apprenticeship in Identity."
Jin Chang
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording
Week 13
Mon 25 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 231-355 (chapters 11-16).
Lecture: "Boomerangs of History: Dispossession, Hibernation and Communism (a conversation)"
Kritish Rajbhandari and Christian Kroll
Wed 27 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 356-478 (chapters 17-22).
Lecture: No lecture
Fri 29 Apr
Assignment
- Introduction and resources
- Ellison, Invisible Man, 479-581 (chapter 23-epilogue).
Lecture: "BEHOLD THE INVISIBLE"
Pancho Savery
- Lecture handout - Word or PDF
- Lecture recording