| Due | Topics | Assignments |
|---|---|---|
| Aug. 17 | Music and the Movement | Bernice Johnson Reagon |
| Favorite medium | Discussion | |
| Aug. 24 | Between the World and Me 1 | Coates part 1 |
| Coates and Media | listening, reading, viewing | |
| Aug. 31 | Stereotypes, Slavery, and Segregation | Rhodes chap. 2 |
| Stereotypes on Television | Torres intro.; Color Adjustment 1 | |
| Sept. 7 | Labor Day | n/a |
| “Awakenings” and Sit Ins | Eyes on the Prize 1 and 3 | |
| Sept. 14 | Martin Luther King, 1963 | Eyes on the Prize 4; Cobo Hall |
| SCLC and Television | Torres chap. 1; Selma | |
| Sept. 15 | Exam 1 | Face-to-face; time and place TBD |
| Sept. 21 | Malcolm X | Eyes on the Prize 7; “Message to the Grassroots” |
| Black Power | Eyes on the Prize 9 | |
| Sept. 28 | Politics of Self-Representation | Rhodes chapter 4 |
| Black Power in California | Black Power Mixtape | |
| Oct. 5 | “A Nation of Law?” | Eyes on the Prize 12 |
| Black Panther Party, 1968 | Rhodes chap. 5 | |
| Oct. 12 | Revolution (Un)televised | Color Adjustment 2 |
| “Two Societies” | Eyes on the Prize 8 | |
| Oct. 19 | Eyes on the Prize as movement text | TBD |
| TBD | TBD | |
| Oct. 26 | Black Power in Public Memory | Rhodes chap. 1 |
| Forrest Gump, Panther, Malcolm X | film clips | |
| Nov. 2 | Deindustrialization and Hip-hop | Rose |
| Nov. 3 | Exam 2 | Face-to-face; time and place TBD |
| Tupac Shakur | Dimitriadis 5; playlist | |
| Nov. 9 | Coates, Between the World and Me | Coates part 2 |
| Social Media and Black Lives Matter | news articles; Coates interview | |
| Nov. 16 | CryptoHarlem | podcast interview |
| TBD | ||
| Nov. 30 | Final Exam (Online – D2L) |
Dr. Steve Spence 