Calendar

Course Schedule

Week One
* Introductions
* Discussion of Due Dates, journal format, readings, class schedule, etc.

Week Two
* Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery
* Response Due

Week Three
* W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk
* Response Due

Week Four
* Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro
* Marcus Garvey, Life and Lessons, “Articles”, “The White Man’s Game: The Tragedy of White Injustice”, “A Dialogue: What’s the Difference”, and Lessons 1-4 from ““Lessons from the School of African Philosophy”
* Response Due

Week Five
* Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory
* Response Due

Week Six
* Keith Gilyard, Voices of the Self
* Response Due

Week Seven
* Victor Villanueva, Bootstraps: From An American Academic of Color
* Response Due

Week Eight
* NO CLASS

Week Nine
* Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary
* Response Due
* Seminar Paper Proposal Due

Week Ten

* Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life

Week Eleven
* David Schaafsma, Eating on the Street
* Response Due

Week Twelve
* Geneva Smitherman, Talkin’ and Testifyin’
* Response Due

Week Thirteen
* College Composition and Communication. “Students’ Right to Their Own Language: Special Issue.”
* bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress Intro- Chap. 3, 5, 11-13
* Response Due

Week Fourteen
* Thanksgiving

Week Fifteen
* Lisa Delpit, Other People’s Children

Week Sixteen
* Presentations
* Seminar paper due