DAY section March 13: Africans in America Part 2

Hank Williams
2014.11 Elizabeth Catlett
Sculpture
Black Unity, 1968
21 in. × 12 1/2 in. × 24 in. (53.3 × 31.8 × 61 cm)

Announcements

  • Lehman’s Pre-Graduate Advising Office offers workshops on the graduate school application process and has drop-in hours each week via Zoom. Their October 26 event “What Does it Take to Get into Graduate School” is highly recommended–especially if you haven’t thought about it. Details at their site

Quick highlights from March 6/8 classes:

  • Finished discussion of (most of) Chapter 3 from Introduction to Black Studies
  • Returned quizzes of chapters 1-2
  • See the Lecture Notes page for a PDF of the slide deck presented in class

DO THIS for next week

Monday March 13:

(RE)READ Section 4.9 (Leadership and social struggle): we’ll start by finishing discussion of that

SKIP sections 4.10 and 4.11 (science/Crisis and New Deal)

Read: Sections 4.11-4.12; pages 150-164 only in the second half of Chapter 4 (Africans in America) in Maulana Karenga’s Introduction to Black Studies. Read  up to “The Post Sixties” for Monday. Read ahead if you finish early and have more time

  • Pay special attention to the following sections: Civil Rights Movement, Black Power Movement, Political Thrust, Cultural Thrust

Wednesday March 15:

Read: sections 4.12; pages 165-183 to finish the second half of Chapter 4 (Africans in America) in Maulana Karenga’s Introduction to Black Studies. 

  • Pay special attention to the following sections:

Discussion questions

  • TBA

What’s Next?

Chapter 5 in Introduction to Black Studies

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