OER AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE

  

          OER for AFR 123

Justice, the Individual, and Struggle in the African American Experience

                                       

 

Required Textbook: Hine, Darlene Clark., Hine, W. C., & Harrold, S. (2017), The African American Odyssey, (Combined Volume, 7th edition). New Jersey: Prentice Hall. (ISBN- 9780134485355) 

*Although this book is not free, there is a low-cost, rental alternative for $24.99 as compared to the regular price of purchasing the text for $70.”

This course participates in the John Jay College’s Open Educational Resources (OER) program. OER is designed to reduce/eliminate the cost of course textbooks and reading materials. The textbook for this course can be rented at a reduced cost. The instructor may occasionally assign other authors and selected readings throughout the semester. In those instances, students will be provided instructions for how to access the reading materials via Brightspace announcements.

Supplemental Readings

The below readings are either library resources or open access, Internet resources

• Africa: The Birthplace of Humanity 
• How Africa Became the Cradle of Humankind 

Black Atlantic Concept

• Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640 
• A Brief Overview of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
• Kidnapping: An Underreported Aspect of African Agency During the Slave Trade Era (1440- 1886)
• The United States and the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, 1776-1867 

 Black People in Colonial America

• Race and Belonging in Colonial America: The Story of Anthony Johnson 

• Inventing Black and White 

• Loyalists and Baconians: The Par Alists and Baconians: the participants in Bacon’s Rebellion in s Rebellion in Virginia, 1676-1677 

• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. 

• Slower Than a Massacre: The Multiple Sources of Racial Thought in Colonial Africa 

• Tales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Colonial America by James Rice (review)

• White Servitude and the Growth of Black Slavery in Colonial America 

 Raising Expectations: Focus on Voices

• The Revolutionary Black Roots of Slavery’s Abolition in Massachusetts 

• The Martyr Age of the United States of America with an Appeal on Behalf of the Oberlin Institute in Aid of the Abolition of Slavery. 

• Ancients, Moderns, and Africans: Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Empire and Slavery in the American Revolution 

• The Making of a Movement 

• Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention : assembled at Philadelphia, December 4, 5, and 6, 1833 

• Phillis Wheatley’s Ghosts: The Racial Melancholy of New England Protestants by Jennifer Thorn 

African Americans in the New Nation

• (1845) FREDERICK DOUGLASS, “MY SLAVE EXPERIENCE IN MARYLAND” 

• Absalom Jones-Petition Against the Slave Trade 

• The cotton kingdom: a traveler’s observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave states 

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave 

• The Nineteenth-Century World of Frederick Douglass reviewed by Leslie M. Harris 

• Racial Realism 

• Saved by the Bell: Derrick Bell’s Racial Realism as Pedagogy 

• The slave who sued for freedom. (Mum Bett) 

• Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society by Elaine Brooks 

Free Black People in Antebellum America

• Somewhat More Independent : The End of Slavery in New York City, 1770-1810 by Shane White 

• Community Bonds in the Bayou City: Free Blacks and Local Reputation in Early Houston by John Garrison Marks 

• Freedom’s Journal (1827-1829) 

• Illegal Self-Emancipation in the Urban Upper South, 1800-1860 by Viola F. Müller 

• Free People of Color, Expulsion, and Enslavement in the Antebellum South by Emily West 

• Maria Stewart by Maggie MacLean 

• Sympathetic Violence: Maria Stewart’s Antebellum Vision of African American Resistance by Christina Henderson 

• Organized Educational Activities of Negro Literary Societies, 1828-1846 by Dorothy B. Porter 

• Opposition to Emigration, A Selected Letter of William Watkins (The Colored Baltimorean) by Bettye J. Gardner

 Black Resistance

• The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert. Narrative by a northern slave emancipated from bodily servitude by the State of New York in 1828.

• The Political Ideology of Martin Delany by Robert M. Kahn 

• Prologue to Conflict – The Crisis and Compromise of 1850 by Holman Hamilton and Michael F. Holt 

• Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend by Carleton Mabee with Susan Mabee Newhouse

• Two Conceptions of Black Nationalism: Martin Delany on the Meaning of Black Political Solidarity by Tommie Shelby 

• The Vindication of Hate Violence Victims Via Criminal and Civil Adjudications by Brian Levin 

• Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts, and work of our own hands”: Martin R. Delany and the Role of Self-Help and Emigration in Black Uplift

• The Motivation of the Wilmot Proviso by Richard R. Stenberg 

 Freedom & Liberation

• In Search of Women of African Descent Who Served in the Civil War Union Navy by Lisa Y. King 

• Susie King Taylor (1848–1912): “I Gave My Services Willingly” by Catherine Clinton 

• Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau : Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation by Mary Farmer-Kaiser 

• The Meaning of Freedom: The Promise of Reconstruction 

Failure of Reconstruction

• Fourteenth Amendment Originalism by Jamal Greene 

• Litigating Emancipation: Slavery’s Legal Afterlife, 1865-1877 by Giuliana Perrone 

• Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power by Jason Kuznicki   

• Ku Klux Klan, Reconstruction-Era by Elaine Frantz Parsons 

White Supremacy

• (1868) REV. HENRY MCNEAL TURNER, “I CLAIM THE RIGHTS OF A MAN” 

• The Aftermath of the Plessy v. Ferguson Ruling by Meredith Sims 

• The Alien in Our Nation: Complicating Issues of “Passing” and Miscegenation in the American Narrative by Kristin Costello Kosnik 

• The Atlantic World and the Road to Plessy v. Ferguson by Rebecca Scott 

• “Double Consciousness” in Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism: Reflections on the Teachings of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner by Anthony B. Penn 

• The Improbable Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay 

• Plessy v. Ferguson, Digital History 

• In the Eye of the Law: How White Supremacy Enlisted the American Legal System by Louis Menand 

• Who is Black? One Nation’s Definition by F. James Davis

• Speeches of African-American Representatives Addressing the Ku Klux Klan Bill of 1871, Neglected Voices 

Early 20th Century African Americans

• Review of Black Baseball Entrepreneurs, 1902–1931: The Negro National League and Eastern Colored League, by Michael E. Lomax. 

• The Color of Blood: John Brown, Jean Toomer, and the New Negro Movement by Barbara Foley 

• Gender and Ambition: Zora Neal Hurston in the Harlem Renaissance by Ralph D. Story 

• Life in the “Promised Land”: African-American Migrants in Northern Cities, 1916-1940, Art to Zoo. 

• A Negro Nation Within the Nation’: W.E.B. DuBois and the Creation of a Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Tradition, 1903-1947 by Walter Rucker 

• The Souls of Black Folk : Essays and Sketches by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 

• Tracing a Community of Practice: A Database of Early African American Race Film by Marika Cifor, Hanna Girma, William Lam, Shanya Norman, Miriam Posner, Karla Contreras and Aya Grace Yoshioka 

• Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington 

• The Niagara Movements “Declaration of Principles” 1905 by W.E.B. Du Bois