I have thoroughly enjoy being apart of this class. I am glad that I was able to take an African American Lit class. Though I am African American, or black, there are still aspect of history that I did not know about and this class brought them to light. I love how discussion was encouraged alot and we were free to voice our opinions and thoughts as we wished. We definitely had the right professor teaching this particular class. You new students, as well as your new school will be lucky to have you on their campus.
Course Readings
- A Brief Guide to the Black Arts Movement
- Alain Locke, "The New Negro"
- Bio of Rita Dove
- Booker T. Washington Atlanta Exposition Speech
- Contexts for "Ballad of Birmingham"
- Countee Cullen "Incident"
- Countee Cullen "Yet Do I Marvel"
- Dudley Randall "Ballad of Birmingham"
- Dudley Randall "Booker T and W.E.B."
- George Schuyler "The Negro Art Hokum"
- Gwendolyn Brooks "Of DeWitt Williams…"
- Gwendolyn Brooks "Primer for Blacks"
- Gwendolyn Brooks "Riot"
- Haki Madhubuti "Is Truth Liberating?"
- Haki Madhubuti "My Brothers"
- Info on Haki Madhubuti
- James Baldwin "Sonny's Blues"
- James Baldwin "Stranger in the Village"
- King's speech on Vietnam
- King's speech on Vietnam (audio recording)
- Langston Hughes "The Ballad of the Landlord"
- Langston Hughes "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
- Langston Hughes "The Weary Blues"
- Link to site for cheap copies of The Known World
- Natasha Trethewey "History Lesson"
- Natasha Trethewey "Pilgrimage"
- NY Times article announcing preservation of Ma Rainey House
- Randall Kenan biography and critical overview
- Review of Rita Dove's Anthology of American Poetry
- Richard Wright "I Tried to be a Communist"
- Richard Wright biography
- Rita Dove "The Event"
- Rita Dove "The Spring Cricket Considers Negritude" (audio)
- Rita Dove's response to Vendler's review
- Robert Hayden "Frederick Douglass"
- Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"
- Sterling Brown "Ma Rainey"
- Sterling Brown "Slim Greer in Hell"
- Tracy K. Smith "Duende"
- Tracy K. Smith interview
- W.E.B. DuBois "Criteria of Negro Art"
- W.E.B. DuBois "The Talented Tenth"
- Yusef Komanyakaa "Facing It"
- Yusef Komanyakaa "Facing It"
Helpful sites
- "As Black as We Wish to Be"
- African American Writers: A Celebration
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
- Amiri Baraka "Black Art"
- Article about atheism among African Americans
- Article on Porgy and Bess, the first African American opera
- Claude McKay "If We Must Die"
- Excerpt from Ralph Ellison's speech accepting the National Book Award
- Field recordings, interviews, etc. by Alan Lomax
- Intro to Afro-American Studies
- Le Salon des Naturelles
- Link to Wikipedia entry on Eugene Bullard
- New Negro entry on Wikipedia
- NY Times article on claim that Jean Toomer "passed" for white
- NY Times review of The Warmth of Other Suns
- Review of Rita Dove's Anthology of American Poetry
- Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
- Rita Dove wins National Medal of Arts
- Rita Dove's response to Vendler's review
- W.E.B. DuBois "Strivings of the Negro People"
- When the Negro Was in Vogue
- Without Sanctuary: Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in American
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I agree with Leilani. The new school will definitely be greatful for a teacher that knows exactly what her subject matter is and can perfectly portray her thoughts to her students. In this class i have learned a lot of history about the African American life and I definitely will keep pursuing a lot of things we did not have time to cover in class. I can honestly say that this class has allowed me to appreciate my race more and has inspired to start research for writing my own. One poem that I connected with the most was “Yet Do I Marvel” by Cullen. We as humans pay too much attention to human standards when we should be focusing on the meaning of our life in which we make ourselves. This poem has made me realize that I’m my own worst enemy now. During the time that a lot of this literature was written, blacks didn’t have the opportunity that we have today. We can actually be as important as we wish, or as irrelevant as we want. Thanks and God bless Dr. Green.