WEEK NINE: AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Monday, March 3
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "The Master's Pieces," Loose Canons (Oxford:
OUP, 1992): 17-42. (on reserve)
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "Writing, 'Race,' and the Difference It Makes,"
Loose Canons: 43-69. (on reserve)
- Cornel West, "The New Cultural Politics of Difference," The Postmodern
Turn, ed. Steven Seidman (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994): 65-81. (on
reserve)
- Cornel West, "The Postmodern Crisis of the Black Intellectuals," Cultural
Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula Treichler (London:
Routledge, 1992): 689-705. (on reserve)
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses to these readings, click here.
Wednesday, March 5
- Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, ch. 2. (on reserve)
- Houston A. Baker, Jr., "To Move Without Moving," in Black Literature and
Literary Theory, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (London: Methuen, 1984):
221-48. (on reserve)
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses to these readings, click here.
Friday, March 7
- bell hooks, excerpts from "Postmodern Blackness," Postmodern Culture
1 (1990). (handout; for the full text of hooks's essay, click
here)
- bell hooks, "Gangsta Culture," Outlaw Culture
(London: Routledge, 1994): 115-24. (on reserve as photocopy)
- Barbara T. Christian, "Camouflaging Race and Gender,"
Representations 55 (Summer 1996): 120-8. (on reserve as photocopy)
- Patricia J. Williams, "American Kabuki," Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze,
Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case, ed. Toni Morrison and
Claudia Brodsky Lacour (New York: Pantheon, 1997): 273-92. (on reserve as a
photocopy)
- For a handout on these readings, click here.
- For students' responses--and boy, are they ever good--click here.
WHAT NEXT?
revised October 1, 1997
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