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California State University, Sacramento

Ethnic Studies 117/Govt 117: Black Political Thought

Professor: Ricky K. Green

Office: Amador 562A

Office Hours: M 9-10:00 T/R 1:30-2:50

greenr@csus.edu

Course Description

This course will systematically and analytically introduce you to the predominant cultural and political trends and concepts historically and currently held by Black Americans. A necessary adjunct to this dialogue is the theme of race discrimination in the United States since, on balance, this is the matrix out of which Black American social and political thought and praxis grows.

Course Objectives

to provide an understanding of the institutional milieu of the Black American and how race discrimination continues to shape the milieu.
to provide an understanding of the factors (cultural, historical, social, economic) accounting for the development of African American political thought
to provide a framework for developing the ability to keenly analyze political phenomena and their relationship to Black Americans.
to prompt involvement in seeking prescriptions to the problematic issues examined in this course.

Required Reading:

Black Visions, Michael Dawson

Freedom Dreams, Robin Kelley

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, Angela Davis

Voices in Black Political Thought, Ricky Green

Suggested readings

Souls of Black Folk, WEB DuBois

Black Culture and Consciousness, Lawrence Levine

Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill

Assignments

Section One: Foundations of Black Political Thought

Week One and Two

**“”Writing Working Class Black History from Way Below”

**“Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, 1-26

“Enduring Black Jeremiad” JSTOR-Library Database

Black Visions, chapter 1

Section Two: The Black Jeremiad

(Integrationist Thought)

Week Three

Black Visions, Chapt 2-4

Week Four,

Black Visions Chapt 4-6

Week Five,

Black Visions Chapt 6-end of book Paper Due Feb 29^th

Section Three: Black Nationalist

Thought

Week Six,

Freedom Dreams, Chapt 1-3

Week Seven and Eight,

Freedom Dreams, Chapt 4-end of book Paper Due March 28^th

Section Four: Black Feminist Thought

Week Nine

Blues Legacies, Chapter 1

Week Ten

Blues Legacies, Chapter 2-4

Week Eleven

Blues Legacies, Chpt 5-7

Week Twelve

Blues Legacies, Chapt 7-end Paper Due April 18th

Section Five: Black Cultural Thought (Black Pluralism)

Week Thirteen

Voices, Chapter 1-3

Week Fourteen and Fifteen

Voices, Chapter 4-6

Paper Due end of finals week

Grading

Paper due Feb 19^th: 4-5 pages 20%

Paper due March 11^th: 4-5 pages 20%

Paper due April 8^th: 4-5 pages 20%

Final paper: due last day of finals; 5-6 pages 30%

Class attendance/participation 10%

California State University, Sacramento

Govt 117/Ethn 117: Black Political Thought

Third Paper: Fall 2004

Specifically I want you to discuss two things regarding Angela Davis’ work on Blues and Feminism: first, is Davis justified in attempting to create an understanding of this fragile junction between race and gender from the Blues of Black women, second, what specific principles, values or traditions distinguish this political understanding as Black and feminine.

Black Politics Links

http://www.blackelectorate.com/ http://www.jointcenter.org/

http://blackyouthproject.uchicago.edu/ http://www.census.gov/

http://www.uncg.edu/~jpbrewer/remember/ http://www.ncobps.org/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032561/

This is the link to the Garvey document: ethnicstudies141_files\Garvey.doc

The following links are to the Garvey speeches: ethnicstudies141_files\01-0639-001.mp3 ; ethnicstudies141_files\01-0639-002.mp3 ; ethnicstudies141_files\speech01.wav ; ethnicstudies141_files\speech02.wav

Last updated: 01/28/2008