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Course Schedule AFAS 160 - Fall 2021

All assignments are due by 11:59 PM MST on the due date. Voice threads are due on Fridays and Quizzes are due by Sunday.

The Norton Anthology readings for the first (2) weeks of class are provided in the Google Drive folder.

Class About Due

August 24 (LIVE ZOOM)

Class: General introduction to the course and all of the modalities we will use.

Read: ● Syllabus

September 5th ● VoiceThread 1 -

Self-Introduction

September 5th ● Sign up for your

Author Discussion

● Quiz 1 & 2 - Syllabus, Wheatley, Truth and Walker

August 26 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduction to Spatial, functionality and use. Discussion of how we will use it in class.

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ “The Literature of Slavery and Freedom” (pp. 75–86)

Watch/Listen: ● Best of: Jamiles Lartey On Racism In

Policing / Pete Davidson & Judd Apatow

August 31 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduction to African American literary tradition, oral tradition, folktales etc.

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ “Phillis Wheatley” (pp.137–150)

Watch/Listen: ● The “Miscegenation” Troll ● Brown's Descendants Return To Harpers

Ferry ● Why African-Americans Loathe 'Uncle Tom' ● Lincoln and Douglass Shared Uncommon

Bond ● Harriet (Tubman) The Spy

September 5th ● VoiceThread 1 -

Self-Introduction

September 5th ● Sign up for your

Author Discussion

● Quiz 1 & 2 - Syllabus, Wheatley, Truth and Walker

Course Schedule AFAS 160 - Fall 2021

September 2 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Class will discuss ideas of freedom and democracy through the works of Walker and Truth

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ David Walker (pp. 159 – 171) ○ Sojourner Truth (pp. 176 – 180)

September 7 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Author Discussions and Introduction to the Great Negro Migration

Read: ● “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler,

Chapter 2024 (pp. 1-21)

September 10 ● Voice Thread 2 -

Butler

September 12 ● Quiz 3 -

Readings in Anthology through Sept 11thSeptember 9

(LIVE Spatial) Class: Author Discussions and introduction to revolutionary

Read: ● The Confessions of Nat Turner ● “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler,

Chapter 2025 (pp. 23-79)

September 14 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Author Discussions and discussion on folktales and Black storytelling

Read: ● “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler,

Chapter 2026 (pp. 81-119) ● Norton Anthology

○ Charles Chesnutt (pp. 580 – 618)

September 17 ● Voice Thread 3 -

September 19 ● Quiz 3 -

Chesnutt, Dunbar, and Washington

September 16 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Author Discussions and introduction to ideas of the “mask” and the birth of Black conservatism

Read: ● “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler,

Chapter 2027 (pp. 121-261) ● Norton Anthology

○ Paul Laurence Dunbar (pp. 894–916) ○ Booker T. Washington (pp. 548–550,

572–579)

Course Schedule AFAS 160 - Fall 2021

September 21 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Author Discussions and Black radicalism

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ W.E.B. DuBois (pp. 679–702)

September 24 ● VoiceThread 4 -

Johnson

September 26 ● Quiz 4 - Johnson

and Novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

September 23 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Author Discussions and discussion of Black “passing” and its implications

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (pp. 780–783, 792–871)

September 28 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Introduction to Harlem Renaissance (pp. 929–944)

October 1 ● Voice Thread 5 -

the Harlem Renaissance

September 30 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Continue discussion of Harlem Renaissance and the works of Hughes as the Godfather of spoken word poetry

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Langston Hughes (pp. 1302–1324)

October 5 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduction to Black research modalities: ethnography

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Zora Neale Hurston (pp. 1029–1079) ○ “Spunk”

October 8 ● VoiceThread 5 -

Harlem Renaissance, Hughes, and Hurston

October 10 ● Quiz 6 - Hughes

and Hurston

Course Schedule AFAS 160 - Fall 2021

October 7 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduction to “Cane” and its new depiction of the rural south

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Jean Toomer (pp. 1141–1170)

October 12 (NO CLASS)

Office Hours today for assistance with A/V Mix or Author Discussion Presentations. Midterm Exam VoiceThread Available today

October 17 ● Midterm Voice

Thread

October 14 (NO CLASS)

Office Hours

October 19 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Discuss Midterm Exam. Author Discussions continue today. Intro to Jean Toomer, passing and the critique of African American artistic creativity (DuBois and Locke)

Read: ● “Criteria of Negro Art” by W.E.B. DuBois ● “The New Negro” by Alain Locke

N/A

October 21 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Author Discussions continue today. Discussion of protest literature

Read: ● Norton Anthology (Volume 2)

○ Richard Wright (pp. 119-132) ● “Bright and Morning Star” Note: Click on

“Entire Issue” at the top middle of the page to read the story

October 26 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Author Discussions and introduction to Ann Petry, James Baldwin, and Black Arts Movement

Read: ● Ann Petry ● Norton Anthology

○ The Black Arts Era (pp. 533–561) ○ James Baldwin (pp. 390 – 394, 413 –

435, 453 - 465)

October 30 ● Voice Thread 6 -

Baldwin, Petry, and Black Arts Era

Course Schedule AFAS 160 - Fall 2021

October 28 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduction to Black nationalism

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Malcolm X (pp. 565 – 587)

November 2 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Discussion of the modern day Civil Rights Movement

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Martin Luther King (pp. 592 – 607)

November 5 ● Voice Thread 7 -

Malcom X and Martin Luther King.

November 4 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Continuation of the Black Arts Movement. Discussion on poetry as advocacy

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Audre Lorde (pp. 637 – 652) ○ Amiri Baraka (pp. 660 – 665, 674 – 688)

November 9 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduce Black Feminism

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Sonia Sanchez (pp. 708 – 725) ○ Nikki Giovanni (pp. 879 – 886)

Notes: If you submit your Reflective Writing Essay by or before November 14th, you will have an opportunity to receive feedback and if necessary, re-write your essay for early submission of November 21st or the regular submission due date of November 28th.

Submitting your Final Draft by the early submission date (November 21st), will earn 5 points extra credit applied to this essay. Contact your grader directly if you choose to submit your Reflective Writing Essay early, otherwise, she or he will not know it is there).

November 12 ● Voice Thread 8 -

Lorde, Baraka, Sanchez, and Giovanni

Course Schedule AFAS 160 - Fall 2021

November 11 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Discussion of Walker, the “Color Purple,” and Womanism

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Alice Walker (pp. 1176 – 1205)

November 16 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduction to Ntozake Shange and “For Colored Girls” and choreopoems

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Ntozake Shange (pp. 1290 – 1296)

November 28 ● Intellectual A/V

Mix (Submit by November 21 for extra credit - you must notify your grader if you decide to do so)

November 18 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Discussion of Maya Angelou’s work as an example of personal narratives demonstrating larger cultural themes

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Maya Angelou (pp. 944 – 957)

November 30 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduction to “narrative shifting” and centering “othered” characters.

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Toni Morrison (pp. 985 - 1067)

December 3 ● VoiceThread 9 -

Walker, Shange, and Angelou

December 2 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Introduction to Black Speculative Fiction

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Octavia Butler, Bloodchild (pp. 1251 – 1266)

December 7 (LIVE Spatial)

Class: Discussion on what it means to be “American” and ideas of citizenship

Read: ● Norton Anthology

○ Jamaica Kincaid (pp. 1304 – 1314) ○ Barack Obama (pp. 1409 – 1419)

December 9 ● Complete the

End-of-Course Evaluation for extra credit!

Course Schedule AFAS 160 - Fall 2021

Class: Class wrap-up!

Notes: Your Intellectual A/V Mix Project and your Reflective Writing Exercise were your Final Exam. Good Luck on the rest of your Final Exams. Thank you for taking this course. Consider Majoring/Minoring in Africana Studies and going to Paris next Spring 2022 with my AFAS 421/497P Class!

Also, those who took this class via Spatial, please send feedback on the experience.