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¡­