Pre course: Africans before the Americas: TBA – under construction ;]

Read: Pre course content on Globalyceum

Additional resources:

Read

1) Africa and The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade by Prof. Remi Alapo

Watch

1) Advanced African Civilizations NOT  taught: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_orQNB7Pn4

2) African Civilizations / African American History (see series on PBS):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhqaQ6mR82s

3) Great Kings and Queens of Africa:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUAheV852Qk

4) Truth about Ancient Africa:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltCm44nhw-Y

5) Henry Louis Gates discusses the Ideological Divide Among Black Americans:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izAQiYHikEs 

Additional reading

1) Global African History:  https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/

2) African American History:  https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/page/3/

3) Black History Milestones: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-milestones

4) Liberty Resource Writers:  https://libertywritersafrica.com/facts/history/amp/

Week 1: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

WEEK 1: Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

Week 1 reading on Globalyceum

page created by prof Alapo on Africa and the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade –  Africa and the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade – HIST 374 | An OER / ZTC (WI) Course at York College – Fall 2020 (cuny.edu)

Additional Reading resources

1) 1619: The Year that shaped America – https://www.americanheritage.com/1619-year-shaped-america

2) 1619 The Forgotten Year in American History: 1619 The forgotten year in American History.pdf   https://www.saisd.net/admin/curric/sstudies/resources/teacher_zone/Hands_On/usto1877/pdf/ho_us1_1619_reading.pdf

3) 1619 America: 400 Years Ago, A ship arrived in VA bearing Human Cargo:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/02/08/1619-african-arrival-virginia/2740468002/

4)  Slavery in America did not start in Jamestown in 1619 – https://time.com/5653369/august-1619-jamestown-history/

5) The First Africans…Jamestown Rediscovery: https://historicjamestowne.org/history/the-first-africans/

6) The MisGuided focus on 1619 As the Beginning of Slavery in America:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misguided-focus-1619-beginning-slavery-us-damages-our-understanding-american-history-180964873/

7) Key Dates in American History: key dates in American History.pdf

8) When did slavery start in America?:  https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery

VIDEO

1) Why did Europeans enslave Africans? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opUDFaqNgXc

2) The Atlantic Slave Trade:  What few textbooks told you by  Anthony Hazard – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXC4Q_4JVg

3) The 1619 Project details the legacy of Slavery in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q14BTdS6BRc

4)  NY Times “1619 Project” explores the Legacy of Slavery in America –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DqdPyHnb_o

5) 25 Shocking Facts about Slave Trade:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9_0g7hRW4s

6] 1619 and the Making of America

WEEK 2: Capitalism and The Roots of Racism

Week 2 reading on Globalyceum

READ

1) Emancipation Proclamation: Emancipation Proclamation doc.pdf /  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1549t.html

2) The Civil War:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4narr5.html

3) The Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2967.html

4)  The Great Compromise of 1865: https://www.history.com/topics/abolitionist-movement/compromise-of-1850

VIDEO

1) Documentary Film – Running A Thousand Miles To Freedom:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYNfldmVUiM

2) Dawn of The Day Stories from the Underground Railroad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5c6cDCTJNY

3) Enslavement to Emancipation:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFwG7jAeyrU

Week 3: Abolitionism / Emancipation

Read Week 3 content on Globalyceum

Additional Resources

Reading

1) The Roots of Racism: roots_of_racism – week 3.pdf

2) Abolitionists / Anti Slavery Activists Q & A – https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/tguide/4tgquestact.html

3) Resource Bank:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/index.html

4)  Dred Scott : https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html

5) Dred Scott Case:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

6) Fredrick Douglass:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html

7) Harriet Tubman:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

8) Slave Narratives and Uncle Tom’s Cabin:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2958.html

9) The Compromise and The Fugitive Slave Act:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html

10) Fugitive Slaves and Northern Racism:  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4narr3.html

11) Sojourner Truth: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/sojourner-truth

12) This Far by Faith (by PBS): https://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/people/sojourner_truth.html

13)  Sarah Gudger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoIreNPkReM

14)  Found Voices: Slave Narratives – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Fk9pqybCA

15)  Ex Slaves Narrative of Catherine Cornelius – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9N0KkGaPc

16) History of Slave Narratives: https://memory.loc.gov/mss/mesn/080/080.pdf  / Download PDF History of Slave Narratives.pdf

VIDEO

1)  The Dread Scott Case – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s299EU5Y4c

2) Mississippi War:  Slavery and Secession – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3CFD2RRF80

3) Readings of Slave Narratives:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJSARO5xHqQ

4) Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (AUDIO):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJUr-vS29dU

5)  Slave Narratives – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWq8RSUXXf4&list=PLcljRJh2CwEz5LU-alW3mLowYX7qoa8lP

6) Harriet Tubman:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmsNGrkbHm4

7) Sojourner Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaAQDyUmbJo

Week 4: Capitalism and the roots of racism

African American Inventors and Their Contributions in Advancing America 

Find an invention or product that was developed or invented by a Black person that contributed to the advancement of America. Find the name of the person and the invention or product and how it is used today (if any).  You will make a brief presentation about who, what, etc

RESOURCES

1) Famous Black American Inventors:  Famous Black Inventors – Inventions & Scientists – Biography

2) 9 Black Inventors that made life easier:  8 Black Inventors Who Made Daily Life Easier – HISTORY

3) Black Inventors: Interesting Engineers:  Black Inventors – The Complete List of Genius Black American (African American) Inventors, Scientists, and Engineers with Their Revolutionary Inventions That Changed the World and Impacted History – Part Two (interestingengineering.com)

4) African American Inventors:  African-American Inventors II | National Geographic Society

5) The A List of Black Inventors:  The A-Z List of Black Inventors (interestingengineering.com)

VIDEO

1) Black Inventions and How They Advanced America –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FvLbuw0Pi8

2)  The Cotton Economy and Slavery – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRlfMhP_CM

3)   African American Inventions and How They Advance America 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FvLbuw0Pi8

4) African American Inventions and How They Advance America 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FvLbuw0Pi8&t=500s

5)  Vanishing History: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDTJogdWmA

6)  Wessynton Plantation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdce9dud1c0&t=41s

Week 5: The Great Migration

Why African Americans from the south  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCdTyl141bA (6minutes, 22)

The Great Migration and the harlem renaissance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AQeRITMhD0 (12 minutes)

 

Week 6: Marcus Garvey & Rise of Black Nationalism

MARCUS GARVEY AND THE RISE OF AFRICAN NATIONALISM

              a)    Political and social trends towards assimilation, integration, emigration,

              b)    cultural nationalism, separation, radicals, gradualists, etc.

 

 

Discussion

What is Pan Africanism / Black / African Nationalism / Negritude / Negrohood and what does each mean to You?

 

 

RESOURCES

 

MARCUS GARVEY AND BLACK NATIONALISM

 

1) Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa Movement:  AAME : image (inmotionaame.org)

2) Marcus Garvey – (audio) –  Marcus Garvey: 20th Century Pan-Africanist | NYPR Archives & Preservation | WNYC  

 

 

MARCUS GARVEY AND THE RASTAFARI MOVEMENT

1) Rastafari and the Garvey Movement: 

2) History of Rastafari Movement:  BBC – Religions – Rastafari: Marcus Garvey   

3) Haile Selasie and the Garvey Nationalism:  

https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/rastafari/beliefs/haileselassie.shtml

4) Rastafari at a Glance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/rastafari/ataglance/glance.shtml

 

 

BLACK NATIONALISM SONGS by Bob Marley

 

1) Redemption Song –  (41) Bob Marley – Redemption Song (from the legend album, with lyrics) – YouTube

 

The song urges listeners to “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery,” because “None but ourselves can free our minds.” These lines were taken from a speech given by Marcus Garvey in at St. Phillip’s African Orthodox Church in Sydney, Nova Scotia, during October 1937 and published in his Black Man magazine:^[7][8]

 

 

2) Buffalo Soldier –   (41) Bob Marley – Buffalo soldier – YouTube

Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the Black Cavalry by Native American tribes who fought in the Indian Wars. The term eventually became synonymous with all of the African-American regiments formed in 1866.

 

3) Zimbabwe:  (41) Bob Marley – Zimbabwe – YouTube

 

4) Bob Marley visits the spiritual homeland of the Rastafari Movement (Ethiopia): http://www.bobmarley.com/history/

 

 

PAN AFRICANISM:

1) Africana Age (archive-it.or

2)  Pan-Africanism — Britannica Online Encyclopedia

3) The Independent African States:  https://www.oercommons.org/courses/boundless-world-history/view

4) Germany and Scramble for Colonies:  https://www.oercommons.org/courses/boundless-world-history/view

 

VIDEO

 

1) Marcus Garvey:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df9P0yKxnvQ

2) The Legacy of Marcus Garvey by Dr. Julius Garvey –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDOAwspuwg\

3) Marcus Garvey Achieved the Largest Black Movement in History:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ4jFt0h6eQ

4) Emperior Haille Salasie:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVki9t3anJU

 

 

 PAN AFRICANISM AND AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE

1) Africa: States of Independence – Scramble for Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgzSnZidGuU

Week 7: Harlem Renaissance

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE (1920-1930)

1. Focus on the impact of cultural and artistic contributions of : James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Dubois, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Zora Neal Hurston, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes  and many more etc..

RESOURCES

1) Harlem Renaissance Oklahoma City Museum Art: Harlem_Docent_Educator_Resource_Guide_web.pdf 

2) Harlem Renaissance and the African American Literature:  Digication ePortfolio :: ANUOLUWAPO BOLARINWA :: Harlem Renaissance and the African American literature

3) Harlem Renaissance and Black Literature:  Harlem Renaissance and Literature – Black New York (cuny.edu)

4) A New African American Identity:  –  A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance | National Museum of African American History and Culture (si.edu)

6) An Intro to The Harlem Renaissance:  An Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance | Poetry Foundation

7) Black Excellence: The Harlem Renaissance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dnEHQhK_Eg

 

VIDEO

1) Harlem Renaissance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir0URpI9nKQ

2) Harlem History:  (41) Harlem History – YouTube  

4) Black History Moment of the Week:  (41) Harlem Renaissance – Black History Moment of the Week – YouTube

5) Harlem Renaissance Crash Course:  (41) The Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Theater #41 – YouTube

Week 8: Literary & Musical contributions

Literary & Musical contributions

Literary and Musical Expressions of African American Contributions to America 

The contribution of Literary and Musical Expressions of the Political and socio-economic plight of African Americans

LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS

1) Does African American Literature Exist?  Does African-American Literature Exist? (chronicle.com)

2) A Reflection of Early African American Poetry –  A Reflection on Early Expressions of Black Poetry | Denver Public Library History (denverlibrary.org)

 

MUSICAL CONTRIBUTIONS

1) Reading throughthe Lens of Music: African-American Literature and Music: PDF Reading throughthe Lens of Music African-American Literature and Music.pdf 

2) Jazz and African American Literary Tradition –  Jazz and the African American Literary Tradition, Freedom’s Story, TeacherServe®, National Humanities Center

3) The Image of Africa in the Literature of The Harlem Renaissance:  The Image of Africa in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance, Freedom’s Story, TeacherServe®, National Humanities Center

 

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 

Info:  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | The New York Public Library (nypl.org)

Black Literature / Harlem Renaissance:   NYPL Catalog