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Academic Year 2004/2005
The Rising Tide of Color: 19th and 20th Century Black Nationalism and Internationalism
HIST 385 FA
Looking at the period from the mid-19th century through the 1970s, we will examine the ways in which ¿the rest of the world¿ figured into black American intellectual programs for combating discrimination at home, and we
will explore the attempts made by black civil rights advocates to capitalize on forums around the world to press for political change. Throughout the course, we will consider the ways in which African American ideas
about
the rest of the world were shaped by their own backgrounds and experiences as ¿Americans¿ or, conversely, by their perceptions of themselves as part of a global coalition of oppressed peoples. We will ask to what degree
they were successful at challenging racism and paternalism¿and to what degree they reified it¿in their various approaches to the international scene. How did black activists and intellectuals import and engage with
ideologies
of anti-imperialism, anti-fascism, Communism, and pacifism to further their own domestic agenda of equal rights for all? What effect did the harnessing of these international doctrines have on their home-grown
political
philosophies, encouraging or hindering their ability to realize their goal of civil rights? And how were African American interventions in international political arenas received by those with whom they sought to forge
alliances?
MAJOR READINGS
Mary Dudziak, COLD WAR CIVIL RIGHTS: RACE AND THE IMAGE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)
Robin D.G. Kelley, HAMMER AND HOE: ALABAME COMMUNISTS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1990)
Alain Locke, ed., THE NEW NEGRO (New York: Atheneum, 1968 [1925])
Manning Marable, ed. DISPATCHES FROM THE EBONY TOWER: INTELLECTUALS CONFRONT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (New York: Columbia
University Press, 2000)
Ula Yvette
Taylor, THE VEILED GARVEY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AMY JACQUES GARVEY (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
Timothy B. Tyson, RADIO FREE DIXIE: ROBERT F. WILLIAMS AND THE ROOTS OF BLACK POWER (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1999)
Penny Von Eschen, RACE AGAINST EMPIRE: BLACK AMERICANS AND ANTICOLONIALISM, 1937-1957 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997)
Ida B. Wells, CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF IDA B. WELLS
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1
991
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Section presentation, 1 Short (5 page) Paper, Final Research Paper (20 pages)
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Nelson,Claire Nee
- Times: ...W... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: FISK314;
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 15)
- SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 7
- SR. non-major: 0 Jr. non-major: 3 SO: 0 FR: 0
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Focused Inquiry Course
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Last Updated on MAR-21-2005
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