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AFR 140 Introduction to Africana Studies: WEEKS 10, 11, and 12: BLACK REVOLUTIONS

Theme and Readings

BLACK REVOLUTIONS 

Week 10

Haitian Revolution

  • Readings Team K presents: The Haitian Revolution: 1794–1804. (n.d.). Africans in America. PBS. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p2990.html
    • Explore all six links listed under Related Entries at the bottom of the page.
  • View the Haitian Declaration of Independence
    • Retrieved from http://www.nyhistory.org/node/580/gallery/63076          
  • (RT) Shakur, A. (1987). Assata : An autobiography. Zed Books.  (Login with your John Jay credentials)
    • Read Chapter 6 through Chapter 8
  • Media: Olsen, B. (2018, March 16). Haitian Revolution summary & timeline [Video].
    • Retrieved from Study.com.https://study.com/academy/lesson/haitian-revolution-summary-timeline.html  *

Explore Key Revolutionary Figures Boukman & Makandal from Saint Domingue and Introduce Voodoo as a Religious Practice

Week 11

  • RT) Shakur, A. (1987). Assata : An autobiography. Zed Books.  (Login with your John Jay credentials)
    • Read Chapters 9 through 12

  • **Exam II**

Week 12

The Tulsa Race Riot and the Ferguson Unrest

  • Readings Team M presents
    • Ellsworth, S. (with Franklin, J. H.). (1982). Chapter 2: Race relations and local violence. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (pp. 38-65). Louisiana State University Press. (Login with your John Jay credentials)
    • Ellsworth, S. (with Franklin, J. H.). (1982). Chapter 3: Race riot. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 (pp. 66-91). Louisiana State University Press. (Login with your John Jay credentials)

Ferguson: The Events Preceding and Contributing to the Ferguson Unrest

  • Readings Team N presents
    • Chaney, C., & Davis, D. J. (2015). Introduction: "No justice, no peace:" Social unrest in Ferguson. Western Journal of Black Studies, 39(4), 267-271. (Login with your John Jay credentials)

      • Retrieved from http://ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=sih&AN=117132575&site=ehost-live

  • Ferguson Police Report:
    • United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. (2015, March 4). Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department.
      • Retrieved from https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf