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This material was created or adapted from material created by Notre Dame OCW faculty member, Richard Pierce, Associate Professor, 2006. Copyright © 2008, Richard Pierce.

African American History II

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Facades (also Crazy Quilt).  Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) from the Harlem Document.
Image courtesy of the Aaron Siskind Foundation
and the Snite Museum of Art. 

Course Description

African American History II is a course that examines the broad range of experiences of African Americans from the close of the American Civil War to the 1980s.  We will explore both the relationship of blacks to the larger society and the inner dynamic of the black community.  We will devote particular attention to Reconstruction, the migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, and the political machinations of the African American community.

About the Professor

Richard Pierce is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Notre Dame.  Professor Pierce specializes in African American, urban, and civil rights history, focusing on social and political protest in urban environments.  His first book, Polite Protest:  The Political Economy of Race in Indianapolis, 1920-1970, was published by Indiana University Press in 2005.  Professor Pierce's current research considers the processes by which African American families and institutions taught Jim Crow to their children, and examines the strategies and methods used by African Americans to preserve self-esteem within a system designed to dehumanize.  Reflecting his commitment to creating a dynamic learning environment for students in the classroom, he won a Kaneb Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching in 2006.

Syllabus

African-American History II (HIST 30800)

 Course Description

African American history II is a course that examines the broad range of experiences of African Americans from the close of the American Civil War to the 1980s.  We will explore both the relationship of blacks to the larger society and the inner dynamic of the black community.  We will devote particular attention to Reconstruction, the migration of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north, and the political machinations of the African-American community.  Classes will be conducted as lecture-discussions. 

Course Goals

  • Close and critical reading
  • Responding to and making use of the presented academic material
  • Conducting library research
  • The articulation of an argument in the construction of African American history

A phrase that I find increasingly difficult to accept is “I followed where the sources led,” as if the sources speak and one merely recites what was heard.  We investigate sources for soundness, accuracy, and truth, and we interpret what we find.  Good historical writing and critique is the integration of diverse sources into a coherent argument.  Producing an argument is the goal for us all and a standard to which we each should aspire. 

Required Texts

  • John Griffin, Black Like Me
  • Lance Hill, The Deacons for Defense
  • Shirley Moore, To Place Our Deeds
  • Paul Robeson, Here I Stand
  • Additional readings

Course Requirements

Each student will write a mid-term examination and a comprehensive final examination during the scheduled final examination period.  Students will also write an annotated bibliography.  Each student will be responsible for all assigned readings and for all material covered in regular class meetings. 

Grading

Each student’s grade will be based on performance on exams, written work, and meaningful class participation, such as involvement during discussions on the assigned reading.  Out of 200 possible points, the midterm is worth 100 points, the final 125, and the bibliography assignment 75.  The University of Notre Dame honor code is in effect for all written work.

Calendar

Week Topic  Readings 
1 Introduction  
2 Free at last! Cimbala, "The Freedmen's Bureau, the Freedmen, and Sherman's Grant in Reconstruction Georgia, 1865-1867"
3 The more things change, the more they stay the same Ross, "Justice Miller's Reconstruction"; Dailey, "Deference and Violence in the Postbellum Urban South"
4 Racial uplift and the "Twin Towers" Phillips, AlabamaNorth; Harris, "Etiquette, Lynching, and Racial Boundaries in Southern History"
5 Migration  Trotter, Black Migration in Historical Perspective
6   Robeson, Here I Stand
7 Midterm Examination  
8   Moore, To Place Our Deeds, 1-150
9 Conflict, again Lawson, "Freedom Then, Freedom Now"; Payne, "Debating the Civil Rights Movement"; Kelley, "We Are Not What We Seem"
10   Hill, The Deacons of Defense, 1-149
11 Everything but the burden Hill, The Deacons of Defense, 150-275
12   Griffin, Black Like Me
13 Lasting effects Pascoe, "Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of 'Race' in Twentieth-Century America" 
14 Cultural forms   
15 Final Examination   



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