Schedule
The schedule was updated on 22 April, 2010.
All dates, times, and assignments are subject to change. Please check this page regularly to make sure that you have the most current information. Reading/screening assignments should be completed and projects must be submitted by the beginning of class on the days indicated.
| Week 1: January 12 and 14 | |
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| Reading | Online syllabus; from Spigel, Make Room for TV (PDF); "Push to Resolve Fading Killings of Rights Era" (NY Times online) |
| Screening | Eyes on the Prize 1: "Awakenings" (in class on Tuesday) |
| Tuesday | In-class screening |
| Thursday | Quiz 0: readings and screenings |
| Week 2: January 19 and 21 | |
| Reading | Torres, introduction and chapter 1 |
| Screening | Eyes on the Prize 2 and 3: "Fighting Back" and "Ain't Scared of Your Jails" |
| Tuesday | In-class discussion |
| Thursday | Quiz 1; In-class discussion |
| Week 3: January 26 and 28 | |
| Reading | Torres, chapter 2 |
| Screening | Sit-in clips on GA View |
| Tuesday | In-class discussion |
| Thursday | Quiz 2; |
| Week 4: February 2 and 4 | |
| Reading | King, Address at the Freedom Rally in Cobo Hall (HTML), 23 June 1963; "Eulogy for the Martyred Children (HTML), 18 Sept. 1963; |
| Listening | Speeches by James Baldwin and Fannie Lou Hamer. |
| Screening | Eyes on the Prize 4 and 5: "No Easy Walk" and "Mississippi: Is This America?" |
| Tuesday | |
| Thursday | Quiz |
| Week 5: February 9 and 11 | |
| Reading | Malcolm X, "Message to the Grassroots" [GA View] |
| Screening | Malcolm X; Eyes on the Prize 6 and 7: "Bridge to Freedom" and "The Time Has Come!" |
| Tuesday | In-class discussion |
| Thursday | Quiz |
| Week 6: February 16 and 18 | |
| Reading | Dwyer, "Interpreting the Civil Rights Movement (Romano and Raiford 5-27) |
| Screening | Eyes on the Prize 8 and 9: "Two Societies" and "Power" |
| Tuesday | |
| Thursday | Quiz |
| Week 7: February 23 and 25 | |
| Reading | "Restaging Revolution" (Romano and Raiford 220-249) |
| Listening | Excerpts from "The Prison Industrial Complex" by Angela Davis |
| Screening | YouTube 1 [GA View] |
| Tuesday | Excerpts from Eyes on the Prize 11 and 12: "Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More" and "A Nation of Law?" |
| Thursday | Quiz |
| Week 8: March 2 and 4 | |
| Reading | Dimitriadis, "Mobilizing History at a Local Community Center" [GA View] |
| Screening | YouTube 2 [GA View] |
| Tuesday | Excerpts from Panther (IMDB) in class |
| Thursday | Quiz; First Exam questions posted |
| Friday | Last day to withdraw and receive a W grade |
| Week 9: March 9 and 11 | |
| Reading | n/a |
| Screening | n/a |
| Tuesday | Spring Break - No Class |
| Thursday | Spring Break - No Class |
| Week 10: March 16 and 18 | |
| Reading | Valerie Smith, "Meditation on Memory: Clark Johnson's Boycott" [GA View] and "The Good, the Bad, and the Forgotten" (Romano and Raiford 137-66) |
| Screening | Boycott twice: with and without the commentary |
| Tuesday | No class |
| Thursday | No class; First Exam essays due via email; |
| Week 11: March 23 and 25 | |
| Reading | |
| Screening | |
| Tuesday | In-class discussion |
| Thursday | Quiz 9 |
| Week 12: March 30 and April 1 | |
| Reading | Brasell, "From Evidentiary Presentation...."; Blair and Michel, "Reproducing Civil Rights Tactics" [GA View]; "The BCRI and the New Ideology of Tolerance" (Romano and Raiford 28-66) |
| Screening | n/a |
| Site Visit | Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site Visitors Center |
| Tuesday | |
| Thursday | Quiz 10 |
| Week 13: April 6 and 8 | |
| Reading | Licensing: articles and advertisements [study guide and GA View]; Browse the MLK Papers Project |
| In-class Screening | Eyes on the Prize 10: "The Promised Land"; Our Friend Martin; |
| Tuesday | Quiz 11; In-class discussion |
| Thursday | In-class discussion |
| Week 14: April 13 and 15 | |
| Reading | Nakamura 14-32 (through discussion of chapter 3) and 37-67 |
| Screening | YouTube 3 [GA View] |
| Tuesday | |
| Thursday | Quiz |
| Week 15: April 20 and 22 | |
| Reading | Nakamura, last paragraph of 74 through 86 |
| Screening | Browse alllooksame?; You Might be a Red Neck; Stuff White People Like |
| Tuesday | |
| Thursday | Quiz |
| Week 16: April 27 and 29 | |
| Reading | Nakamura 106 through top of 117 |
| Screening | |
| Tuesday | |
| Thursday | |
| Final Exam: Thursday, May 6 | |
| Thursday | 12:30-2:30 p.m. |