Professor Battle Black America Homework for Fall 2020 Homework Assigned (These assignments are due the following week) Week 1 Email Juan top three rank-ordered preferences for presentation topic (8/31) Overview of Black America I Readings: * Hunter M, Robinson Z. 2016. The Sociology of Urban Black America. Annual Review of Sociology, 42:385–405. doi: 10.1146/annurev-soc-081715-074356 * New York Times’ 1619 Project https://pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf * Podcast: The Invention of Race from course website. 1 Week 2 Overview of Black America II: Intellectuals and Activists (9/14) Readings: * DuBois WEB . 1904a . The talented tenth. In The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative American Negroes of Today, ed. BT Washington. New York: James Pott https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-talented-tenth/ * DuBois WEB. 1903 (2003). The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Barnes & Noble Class. * Washington BT. 1901. Up from Slavery. Amazon Classics * Washington BT. 1895. The Atlanta Cotton States Exposition Address. History Matters, GMU. http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/39/ * Giddings, PJ. 2009. Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. Amistad press Barnett IW . 1991 . Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, ed. T Harris. New York: Oxford Univ. Press Hine DC, Hine WC, Harrold S. 2014. African Americans: A Concise History; Combined Volume, 5th Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Painter NI. 2007. Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press Tucker, D. M. (1971). Miss Ida B. Wells and Memphis Lynching. Phylon (1960-), 32(2), 112- 122. Proposal: Do CITI Training 2 Week 3 Historical Perspective(s) I: Theories and Theorists (9/21) Readings: * Crenshaw K, et al. 1996. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement. The New Press * Marable M, Mullings L. 2015. How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society. Haymarket Books. *Young AA, Deskins DR. 2001. Traditions of African-American Sociological Thought. Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 27:445-477. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.445 Bonilla-Silva E. 2013. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. New York: Roman & Littlefield. 4th ed Coates T. 2011. The Great Schism: From their onsets, suffragists and abolitionists shared many of the same values, so what caused the movements to split apart. The Atlantic. Drake St. C, Cayton H . 1993 [1945] . Black Metropolis. Chicago : Univ. Chicago Press DuBois WEB . 1996 [1899a] . The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia : Univ. Penn. Press Frazier EF . 1932 . The Negro Family In Chicago. Chicago : Univ. Chicago Press Marable M. 1998. Black Leadership. Columbia University Press Jones A. 2013. The Modern African American Political Thought Reader. New York: Routledge Park RE, Burgess E . 1921 . An Introduction to the Science of Sociology. Chicago : Univ. Chicago Press Other: Email Juan five books (APA citation); two of which Juan will select for you to present on the last day of class. 3 Week 4 Historical Perspective(s) II: The Human Experience (10/14: Readings: Wed.) *Wilkerson I. 2011. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. New York: Vintage Books *Marable M, Mullings L. 2009. Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology. New York: Rowan & Littlefield Washington J. 1991. A Testament of Hope : The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. HarperOne Zinn H. 1995. A People’s History of the United States, 1942 – Present. HarperPerennial Proposal: Do one-page proposal 4 Week 5 Class, Race, and Their Intersections (I): Black Poverty In America (10/19) Readings: * Collins PH. 2015. Intersectionality’s Definitional Dilemmas. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 41:1–20. doi: 10.1146/annurev-soc-073014-112142 * Economic State of Black America in 2020. Joint Economic Committee Report. https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/ccf4dbe2-810a-44f8-b3e7- 14f7e5143ba6/economic-state-of-black-america-2020.pdf. * Wilson, W. (2003). Race, class and urban poverty: A rejoinder. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 26(6), 1096-1114. * Wilson, W. J. (2006). Social theory and the concept 'underclass'. In K.-S. Rehberg (Ed.), Soziale Ungleichheit, kulturelle Unterschiede: Verhandlungen des 32. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in München. Teilbd. 1 und 2 (pp. 90-104). Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verl. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-145477’ * Wilson, William Julius. 2011. The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised. Daedalus 140.2: 55-69. https://doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_00077 * Wilson, W. (2013). Combating Concentrated Poverty in Urban Neighborhoods. Journal of Applied Social Science, 7(2), 135-143. * Wilson, W. (2009). The Moynihan Report and Research on the Black Community. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621(1), 34-46. * Quane, J., Wilson, W., & Hwang, J. (2015). Black men and the struggle for work: Social and economic barriers persist. Education Next, 15(2), 22-29. * Wilson W. 2011. Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces. American Educator. Spring: 10-23. * Darity, W. (2011). REVISITING THE DEBATE ON RACE AND CULTURE. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 8(2), 467-476. * Gould, M. (2011). REVISITING THE DEBATE ON RACE AND CULTURE. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 8(2), 476-488. DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X1100052X * Wilson, William Julius. 2011. More Than Just Race: A Response to William Darity, Jr. and Mark Gould. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 8(2): 489-495. Grusky, D. 2014. Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, 4th Edition. Boulder, CO: Westview Press 5 Massey DS, Denton M. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press Wilson WJ. 1987. The Truly Disadvantaged. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press Proposal: Do 2nd Draft of One-Page Proposal Do 20 References 6 Week 6 Class, Race, and their Intersections (II): Black Middle & Privileged Classes In America (10/26) Readings: * Frazier EF. 1954. Black Bourgeoisie. New York: Free Press * Graham O. 1999. Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. Harper Perennial * Pattillo M. 1999 (2014). Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press * Cose E. 1994. The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care? Harper Perennial Keister LA. 2014. The One Percent. Annu. Rev. Sociol. 40:347–67. Doi: 10.1146/annurev- soc-070513-075314 Lacy K. 2007. Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press Pattillo M. 2007. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press Robinson E. 2011. Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America. Anchor Press Taylor ED. 2018. The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era. Armistad Press. Wills S. 2019. Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires. Amistad Press Woldoff RA. 2011. White Flight/Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press - Specifically chapter called “Black Flight” Proposal: Start a complete “structure” of the final proposal (for Juan’s eyes), with as much of it done as possible. More specifically, put the proposal together with a reasonable attempt at the following: 7 a. abstract b. background c. methods d. references e. timeline f. budget g. irb/human subjects 8 Week 7 #SayHerName (11/2) Readings: * Davis AY. 1983. Women, Race, & Class. Vintage Press. * Giddings PJ. 2007. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. W. Morrow Press. * Hull A. 2015. All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies. Feminist Press at CUNY. Bell JD. 2018. Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement. New Press Collins PH. 2008. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge. Guy-Sheftall B. 1995. Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. New Press hooks b. 1981 . Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Boston : South End Lorde A, Clark C. 2007. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press McClaurin I. 2001. Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis, and Poetics. Rutgers University Press Obama M. 2018. Becoming. Crown Publishing Group Ransby B. 2005. Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. University of North Carolina Press. Rice C. 2012. A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me. Ember Press Rice S. 2019. Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For. Simon & Schuster Smith B. 2000. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology. Rutgers University Press 9 Proposal: Finalize a complete “structure” of the final proposal (for Juan’s eyes), with as much of it done as possible. More specifically, put the proposal together with a reasonable attempt at the following: a. abstract b. background c. methods d. references e. timeline f. budget g. irb/human subjects Week 8 Proposal: (11/9) Complete PDF draft (for peer review) is due, in its entirety and in the required structure, at the beginning of the next class session/meeting. Again, you will need: a. abstract b. background c. methods d. references e. timeline f. budget g. irb/human subjects 10 Week 9 Queering Black America (11/16) Readings: * Carbado DW, McBride D. 2011. Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction. Cleis Press * Cohen CJ. 1999. The Boundaries of Blackness. Chicago: Univ.