Topic Name Description
Course Syllabus File BST/PS-Introduction to Black Studies
Essay Prompts File BST/PS201_Essay 2 Prompts
Mapping the field Folder Johnetta Cole, Jane and Lewis Gordon, and Nathan Hare
Beginnings: how a movement became an academic discipline Folder Terry Kershaw and Fabio Rojas
URL NPR Article on the Third World Strike (with embedded videos)
URL San Francisco State University Africana Studies Website & Videos of Third World Strike
Africa and its Invention Folder Mbembe_Critique of Black Reason (chs1-2)

Chapter 1: read all

Chapter 2: read pp 38-61
From invention to reality: the undervelopment of Africa in the modern world Folder Rodney_chapters from How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

This is a pdf of the entire text. Please read:


-Angela Davis's Preface to Rodney's work

 -chapter 1 in its entirety

- 4.1 "The European Slave Trade as a Basic Factor in African Underdevelopment"

-6.2 "Negative Character of the Social, Political and Economic Consequences"
File Angela Davis_Preface to Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Transition, the Black Atlantic, and processes by which newness enters into the world Folder Selections from Stephanie Smallwood's Saltwater Slavery
From slavery to freedom URL Haitian Revolution_Documentary
Slavery and its Discontents Folder Slavery and its discontents

Douglass, Stewart, and Walker texts
Racism, anti-colonialism, and resistance File Day 1-Cesaire_Discourse on Colonialism

While this is one entire copy of the text, read only "Discourse on Colonialism"
File Day2-Frantz Fanon_Wretched of the Earth

Day 2:

This is a pdf of the entire book. I recommend that you read the whole work when you have the time, but for this class you are only required to read the following: 

-Preface and Chapter 1
The Development of Black Consciousness As Resistance File James Baldwin_The White Problem
File Steve Biko_selections from I Write What I Like
Racism, anti-colonialism, and resistance, continued Folder Day 1

King & Malcolm X
Folder Day 2

Kwame Ture/Charles Hamilton and James Baldwin 

For Black Power, read only chs. 1-2
Black Feminism, part I File Patricia Hill Collins_The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
File bell hooks_Talking Back_ch.2
Black Feminism, part II File Combahee River Collective Statement
File Audre Lorde_Age, Race, Class, and Sex