Week 1 Welcome + Returning to Africa
1/29
Introduction
+
Campos Pons, Maria Magdalena. Behold. Brooklyn Museum and Getty Publications. 2023. (Selection)
1/31 Asynchronous screening + synchronous discussion
RENT and Watch at Home:
They Are We (Emma Christopher, 2013)
Week 2 Slavery and the Construction of Blackness
2/5
They Are We (Emma Christopher, 2013)
+
Mbembe, Achille. “The Subject of Race.” Critique of Black Reason. Duke University Press, 2017. (Pages 10-20)
2/7
Mbembe, Achille. “The Subject of Race.” Critique of Black Reason. Duke University Press, 2017. (Pages 10-20)
Week 3 Slavery and the Construction of Blackness + Zine Workshop
2/14
Mbembe, Achille. “The Subject of Race.” Critique of Black Reason. Duke University Press, 2017. (Pages 25-31; 35-37)
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Zine Workshop
https://libraryguides.nau.edu/creating/zine-making
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/copy_machine_manifestos_artists_who_make_zines
Group 1
Agyei- Odame,Karen Afia Asentewaa
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Group 10
Week 4 The Haitian Revolution
2/21
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event.” Silencing the Past: Power and Production of History. Beacon Press, 2015. (Pages 70-83)
Presentation(s)
Agyei- Odame,Karen Afia Asentewaa
2/22
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event.” Silencing the Past: Power and Production of History. Beacon Press, 2015. (Pages 83-95)
Presentation(s)
Week 5 Maroons in the Americas
2/26
Price, Richard. “Maroons and their Communities.” Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. John Hopkins University Press, 1996. (Pages 1-15)
Presentation(s)
2/28
Price, Richard. “Maroons and their Communities.” Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas. John Hopkins University Press, 1996. (Pages 15-30)
Presentation(s)
Week 6 Maroon Poetics and Zine Workshop II
3/4
Brown, Ariana. We are Owed. Grieveland, 2021 (Selection)
Presentation(s)
3/6
Zine Workshop II: the proposal
Week 7 Midterms
3/11
Exam
3/13
Self-Care Discussion + Conversations on Projects
*The Zine proposal is due today. Please, send it to me as a Word, Google, or Pages document to my email: rojo.roblesmejias@baruch.cuny.edu. No pdfs, please.*
Group 1
Agyei- Odame,Karen Afia Asentewaa
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Group 10
Week 8 Afro-Latinx History and Identities in the US
3/18
Jiménez Román, Miriam and Juan Flores. “Introduction” The Afro-Latin@ Reader History and Culture in the United States. Duke University Press, 2010.
3/20
Jiménez Román, Miriam and Juan Flores. “Introduction” The Afro-Latin@ Reader History and Culture in the United States. Duke University Press, 2010.
Presentation(s)
Week 9 Transnational Central American Blackness
3/25
Martinez, Janel. “Abuela’s Greatest Gift.” Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed. Flatiron Books, 2021.
Presentation(s)
3/27
Haywood, Kahlil. “Paraíso Negro.” Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed. Flatiron Books, 2021.
Presentation(s)
Week 10 Afro-Diasporican Music Culture and Storytelling
4/1
Rivera Rideau, Petra. “Cocolos Modernos: Salsa, Reggaetón, and Puerto Rico’s Cultural Politics of Blackness.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
Presentation(s)
4/3
Gautier, Amina. “Aguanile.” Now We Will Be Happy. University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
Presentation(s)
Week 11 African-American and (Black) Diasporican Coalitions at CUNY
4/8
Reed, Conor Tomás. “Creating the ‘Black University,’ ‘Black City,’ and ‘Life Studies’ with Toni Cade Bambara, David Henderson, and June Jordan.” Common Notions, 2023. (Pages 61-74)
4/10
Reed, Conor Tomás. “Creating the ‘Black University,’ ‘Black City,’ and ‘Life Studies’ with Toni Cade Bambara, David Henderson, and June Jordan.” Common Notions, 2023. (Pages 74-88)
Week 12 Afro-Dominicanidades
4/15
Lamb, David. “Do Plátanos Go Wit’ Collard Greens.” The Afro-Latin@Reader. Duke University Press, 2010.
Presentation(s)
+ Extra-credit Event
Black Studies Colloquium presents:
Conor Tomás Reed’s New York Liberation School: Lecture and Conversation
5:30 pm Room 14-266
4/17
Heredia, Alejandro. “Muchacho.” Kweli Journal. https://www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2022/6/30/muchacho-by-alejandro-heredia
Presentation(s)
Spring Recess
4/22–4/30
Week 13 Re-centering Blackness
5/1
Zamora. Omaris Z. “Transnational Renderings of Negro/a/x/*: Re-centering Blackness in AfroLatinidad.” Small Axe 68: 07.2022
Presentation(s)
Extra-credit event
5/5
Week 14 Exam #2 + Zine Workshop
5/6
Exam
5/8
Asynchronous Zine Workshop
+
If interested, walk-in consultations with Dr. Robles 9:30 am-12:00 pm, BLS Department Room 4- 272
Week 15
5/13
Zine fair and feedback session
Round 1
Group 1
Agyei- Odame,Karen Afia Asentewaa
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Round 2
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Group 9
Group 10
5/15
Asynchronous Zine Workshop
+
If interested Zoom consultation with Dr. Robles by appointment.
Final zine submission deadline
5/20 by 11:59 pm in person or via email.
Final grade submission deadline
5/28