AFR 140 Introduction to Africana Studies: WEEKS 6, 7, 8, & 9: VOICE AND NARRATIVE / COLONIALISM: THE GLOBAL SPREAD

VOICE AND NARRATIVE

Week 6

• Readings Team F presents: Douglass, F. (1845). Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, An American slave. Anti-slavery Office.
  • Chapters 4 through 6. 
• Media: YouTube: texpaco. (2008, November 17). Swing low sweet chariot by Etta James [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thz1zDAytzU
  • Use in compliance with Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act.
• Audio:  Heaven [Recorded by JoAnne Stephenson, acc. Lorna Young-Wright] [MP3 file]. (n.d.). Negro spirituals.  http://www.negrospirituals.com/mp3/heaven.mp3.
  • Use in compliance with Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act.
• Audio:  I’m troubled in mind [Recorded by Spiritual Workshop Paris] [MP3 file]. (n.d.). Negro spirituals.  http://www.negrospirituals.com/mp3/i_m_troubled.mp3
  • Use in compliance with Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Act

COLONIALISM: THE GLOBAL SPREAD

Underdevelopment and Economic Liberalization in Africa

Exploring Underdevelopment and Neo-Colonialism

• Readings Team G presents
  • Rodney, W. (1973). "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". London and Dar-es-Salaam: Bogle- L’Ouverture Publications and Tanzanian Publishing House. Transcript from 6th reprint, 1983. Transcribed by Joaquin Arriola
  • Read Section 6.1 “The Supposed Benefits of Colonialism to Africa,” (Scroll down to Section 6.1)
  • Read Section 6.2 “Negative Character of the Social, Political and Economic Characteristics.” (Scroll down to Section 6.2)
  • Retrieved from http://abahlali.org/files/3295358-walter-rodney.pdf
• Media: “Africa Post-Colonial Development,” Fatoumata Waggeh at TEDxGallatin Fatoumata Waggeh is a graduate of NYU Gallatin. 10 minutes
  • Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7lmz4UL4wE

Week 7

• (RT) Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845). Chapters 7 through 10
• **CREATIVE WRITING #1**

Week 8

Exploring the politico-social and environmental consequences of the resource curse

• Readings Team H presents
  • Sundaram, J.K. (2008). Economic Liberalisation and Development in Africa. Dakar, CODESRIA.
    • Read pp. 1-15, up to and not including section on “Resource Curse.”
    • https://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article1332&lang=en

Experience of the Oppressed

• Readings Team I presents
  • Walker. D. (1995/). David Walker’s Appeal.
  • Retrieve from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931t.html
• Fessler, L (2018). How the leader of Black Lives Matter defines power.
  • Retrieve from https://qz.com/1391762/black-lives-matter-co-founder-alicia- garzas-definition-of-power/
• Worksheet
  • Where the march for Civil Rights stands today:
    • Retrieve from https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/where-the-march-for-civil-rights-stands-today
• Read and take notes on:
  • (RT) Shakur, A. (1987). Assata : An autobiography. Foreword through Chapter 2

Week 9

Africana resistance to racism

• Readings
  • (RT) Shakur, A. (1987). Assata : An autobiography. Chapter 3 and 4
• "Marcus Garvey: Africa for the Africans "and "The declaration of rights of the Negro peoples of the world"

Black Feminism and Racial Justice

• Readings Team J presents
• (BB) Collins, Patricia Hill, “When Fighting Words Are Not Enough: The Gendered Content of Afrocentrism,” Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (1998). (Note: Go to Blackboard for this reading).
• (RT) Shakur, A. (1987). Assata : An autobiography. Chapter 4 through Chapter 5