Syllabus/achievement requirements

Primary Texts:

• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
• Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition
• Thomas Dixon, The Leopard’s Spots
• James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
• James T. Farrell, Young Lonigan
• James Baldwin, “Going to Meet the Man”
• Ann Deavere Smith, Twilight

Secondary Texts:

• Winant, Howard and Michael Omi.  “Racial Conditions”
• James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
• Robyn Wiegman, “The Anatomy of Lynching”
• Steve Martinot, “On the Epidemic of Police Killings”
• Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”
• Cheryl Harris, “Whiteness as Property”
• Kelpani Seshadri-Crooks, Desiring Whiteness, selections
• Marlin Ross, “White Fantasies of Desire: Baldwin and the Racial Identities of Sexuality.”
• Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, selections
• Others tbd…