Hafta 1
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Bold Type Books, 2016) Kendi and Blain, Part Seven (Michael Harriot, Tera W. Hunter)
Hafta 2
Kelley and Lewis, preface and Chapter Six (Barbara Bair), “Though Justice Sleeps” (intro) Kendi and Blain, Part Seven (William A. Darity, Jr., Kali Nicole Gross, Crystal N. Feimster, Blair L.M. Kelley), Part Eight (Derrick Alridge, Howard Bryant) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Six (Barbara Bair), “Though Justice Sleeps” (sections titled, “Labor” and “Justice”) Additional Reading: Keith Medley, We as Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson (2012); Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Hafta 3
Kendi and Blain, Part Eight (Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Isabel Wilkerson, Michelle Duster) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Seven (James Grossman), “A Chance to Make Good” (The Second Emancipation) Additional Reading: Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Vintage, 2011)
Hafta 4
Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Seven (James Grossman), “A Chance to Make Good” (Schooling for Leadership) W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1903) Additional Readings: David Levering Lewis, W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography, 1868-1963 (Holt Paperbacks, 2009); Colin Grant, Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey and his Dream of Mother Africa (OUP, 2008)
Hafta 5
Kendi and Blain, Part Eight (Farah Jasmine Griffin, Robin D.G. Kelley, Bernice L. McFadden) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Eight (Joe William Trotter, Jr.), “From a Raw Deal to a New Deal” (A New Deal, 1919-1939) Additional Reading: Robin D.G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (The University of North Carolina Press, 1990)
Hafta 6
Kendi and Blain, Part Nine (Chad Williams, Russell Rickford, Sherrilyn Ifill) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Eight (Joe William Trotter, Jr.), “From a Raw Deal to a New Deal” (A Second World War) Additional Reading: Matthew F. Delmont, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad (Viking, 2022)
Hafta 7
Kendi and Blain, Part Nine (Imani Perry, Charles E. Cobb, Jr.) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Nine (Vincent Harding, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Earl Lewis), “We Changed the World” (Jim Crow Must Go!, Old Order New Order) Additional Readings: Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002); Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: American in the King Years 1954-1963 (Simon & Schuster, 1989)
Hafta 8
Kendi and Blain, Part Nine (Peniel Joseph) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Nine (Vincent Harding, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Earl Lewis), “We Changed the World” (Freedom Now! The Student Revolutionaries, The Arduous Task) Additional Reading: Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin, Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (UC Press, 2016)
Hafta 9
Kendi and Blain, Part Nine (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Barbara Smith) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Ten (Robin D.G. Kelley), “Into the Fire” (It’s Nation Time!) Additional Reading: Angela Davis, An Autobiography (International Publishers Co; 2013)
Hafta 10
Kendi and Blain, Part Ten (James Forman, Jr., Bakari Kitwana, Salamishah Tillet, Angela Y. Davis) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Ten (Robin D.G. Kelley), “Into the Fire” (Inner City Blues) Additional Reading: Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in American (Harvard University Press)
Hafta 11
Kendi and Blain, Part Ten (Ester Armah, Deborah Douglas, Karine Jean-Pierre) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Ten (Robin D.G. Kelley), “Into the Fire” (Living the Dream?) Additional Reading: Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Three Rivers Press, 2004)
Hafta 12
Kendi and Blain, Part Ten (Alicia Garza) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket Books, 2016)
Hafta 13
Kendi and Blain, Part Ten (Keisha N. Black) Kelley and Lewis, Chapter Five (Robin D.G. Kelley), “Into the Fire” (Ain’t no Stopping us Now) Barbara J. and Karen Fields, Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life (Verso Books, 2012)