Week 1
2/2 Synchronous Session
Course Overview
2/4 Asynchronous Assignment
Theoretical Essay:
Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review Press, 2000.
Week 2
2/9 Synchronous Session
Theoretical Essay:
Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review Press, 2000.
Historical Essay:
Dadzie, Stella. “A Terrible Crying: Women and the African Trade.” A Kick in the Belly: Women Slavery and Resistance. Verso, 2020.
2/11 Asynchronous Assignment
Historical Essay:
Dadzie, Stella. “A Terrible Crying: Women and the African Trade.” A Kick in the Belly: Women Slavery and Resistance. Verso, 2020.
Week 3
2/16 Synchronous Session
Fiction:
Arroyo Pizarro, Yolanda. “Wanwe.” Negras, Stories of Puerto Rican Slave Women. Boreales, 2012.
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Oral/slide presentation on the story “Wanwe.”
2/18 Asynchronous Assignment
Historical Essay:
Johnson, Jessica Marie. “La Traversée: Gender Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage.” Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. (Pages 75-97)
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(Optional)
2/18 at 6:00pm ISLA at Baruch event: “Carnival/Carnaval! Celebrating the Great Afro-Latinx Tradition in the Americas” (Extra-credit with a 250-word reflection)
Week 4
2/23 Synchronous Session
Historical Essay:
Johnson, Jessica Marie. “La Traversée: Gender Commodification, and the Long Middle Passage.” Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. (Pages 98-106)
Fiction:
Arroyo Pizarro, Yolanda. “Midwives.” Negras, Stories of Puerto Rican Slave Women. Boreales, 2012.
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Oral presentation on the essay “La Traversée” OR the story “Midwives.”
2/25 Asynchronous Assignment
Fiction:
Arroyo Pizarro, Yolanda. “Arrowhead.” Negras, Stories of Puerto Rican Slave Women. Boreales, 2012.
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(Optional)
2/25, 1PM: A Conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson, Assistant Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and author of Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. (Extra-credit with a 250-word reflection)
Week 5
3/2 Synchronous Session
Fiction:
Carnegie, James. Wages Paid “Part I Morning and Part II Mid-Morning” If I Could Write This in Fire. The New Press, 1994. (Pages 17-39)
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Oral presentation on the novella Wages Paid “Part I Morning and Part II Mid-Morning”(Pages 17-39)
3/4
*Midterm Project Proposal is due via email*
(A word or goggle document preferably)
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One-on-one meetings
2:30-2:45 Cabej,Klea (Confirmed)
2:45-3:00 Hogans,Margarita (Confirmed)
3:00-3:15 Miro,Christine (x2) (Confirmed)
3:15-3:30 Oseni,Kayode M (Confirmed)
3:30-3:45 Tejada,Rosa J (Confirmed)
Week 6
3/9 Synchronous Session
Fiction:
Carnegie, James. Wages Paid “Part III Lunch and Part IV Early Afternoon” If I Could Write This in Fire. The New Press, 1994.
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Oral presentation on the novella Wages Paid “Part III Lunch and Part IV Early Afternoon.”
3/11 Asynchronous Assignment
Fiction:
Carnegie, James. Wages Paid “Part V Late Afternoon and Part VI Dusk” If I Could Write This in Fire. The New Press, 1994.
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One-on-one meetings
2:30-2:45 Aviles,Thalia (Confirmed)
2:45-3:00 Capellan,Wandaly (Confirmed)
3:15-3:30 Downer,Ginelli Ivette (Confirmed)
Week 7
3/16 Synchronous Session
Historical Essay:
Dadzie, Stella. “Enslaved Women and Subversion: The Violence of Turbulent Women.” A Kick in the Belly: Women Slavery and Resistance. Verso, 2020.
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Oral presentation on the essay “Enslaved Women and Subversion.”
3/18
One-on-one meetings
2:30-2:45 Ally,Fazila (Confirmed x2)
2:45-3:00 Buttigieg,Lourdes M (Confirmed)
3:00-3:15 Cando,Kevin (Confirmed)
3:15-3:30 Castro,Roky Baltasar (Confirmed)
3:45-4:00 Vasilcin,Adriana (Confirmed)
Week 8
3/23
One-on-one meetings
2:30-2:45 Davy,Antonia (Confirmed)
2:45-3:00 Hunter,Tara (Confirmed)
3:00-3:15 Mejia De La Cruz,Juan M (Confirmed)
3:15-3:30 Peralta,Monica A (Confirmed)
3:30-3:45 Siddika,Shamma (Confimed)
3:45-4:00 Castillo,Devora E
3/25
*Midterm Project is due.*
One-on-one meetings
2:30-2:45 Thiam,Fatou (Confirmed)
2:45-3:00 Torres,Brian A
3:00-3:15 Vargas,Ricardo
3:15-3:30 Sanchez,Johairy
3:30-3:45 Walcott,Cineikwa Akayla (Confirmed)
3:45-4:00 Colon,Amanda A
Spring Recess
3/27-4/4
Week 9
4/6 Synchronous Session
Historical Essay:
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 70-88)
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Oral presentation on the essay “An Unthinkable History.”
4/8 Asynchronous Assignment
Historical Essay:
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 88-95)
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Yarimar Bonilla’s Aftershock of Disaster Event (Extra-credit opportunity)
Thursday, April 8, 1pm
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Dr. Yarimar Bonilla in conversation with Professor Rojo Robles
Video, color, sound, 35:29, 2019
Register here
Week 10
4/13-4/15 Asynchronous Screening and Assignment
Documentary:
PBS: Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution. YouTube. https://youtu.be/IOGVgQYX6SU
Thursday, April 15, 1PM: A Conversation with Yomaira Figueroa, associate professor of English at Michigan State University, a scholar of U.S. Latinx Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and Afro-Hispanic literature and culture, and author of Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Week 11
4/20 Synchronous Session
Poetry:
Engle, Margarita. The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano. Square Fish, 2006. (Pages 1-43)
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Oral Presentation on the poetry book The Poet Slave of Cuba.
4/22 Asynchronous Assignment
Poetry:
Engle, Margarita. The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano. Square Fish, 2006. (Pages 44-86)
Week 12
4/27 Synchronous Session
Poetry:
Engle, Margarita. The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano. Square Fish, 2006. (Pages 87-129)
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Oral Presentation on the poetry book The Poet Slave of Cuba.
4/29 Asynchronous Assignment
Poetry:
Engle, Margarita. The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano. Square Fish, 2006. (Pages 130-172)
Week 13
5/4 Synchronous Session
Critical Essay:
Pettway, Matthew. “Present but Unseen: African Cuban Spirituality and Emancipation in the Literature of Juan Francisco Manzano.” Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. (Pages 120-151)
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Oral Presentation on the essay “Present but Unseen”
5/6 Asynchronous Assignment
Critical Essay:
Pettway, Matthew. “Present but Unseen: African Cuban Spirituality and Emancipation in the Literature of Juan Francisco Manzano.” Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. (Pages 151-173)
Week 14
5/11 Synchronous Session
Wrapping-Up
5/13 Asynchronous consultations
Final
5/25
*Via email*
5/28 Final Grade Submission Deadline
