Reflection Journal Entry 3
Reflection Journal Entry 3Your Reaction Paper will fo
Reflection Journal Entry 3
Reflection Journal Entry 3Your Reaction Paper will focus on the following assigned readings and film. Select 2 of the 3 section dates that you will focus on .
All students are required to submit Four (4)typed written 3 page double spaced response paper on any three assigned reading. The response paper should critically engage with the central arguments, themes and concepts, and overarching debates on Black Political Thought and its global connections. They can also draw on that week’s film/documentary. All response papers must be submitted on the designated week that the reading is assigned for the class. When engaging in your readings there are several steps one must make to get a better understanding of what you are reading. You Must Ask:
1. How does the author engage the idea of history, politics, and identity?
2. What was the general argument or point the author or editor made?
3. What major premises, themes, and concepts of culture or race, did the author employ? 4. What evidence did the author use? (i.e. scientific, ethnographic, personal experience) 5. How were ideas about Africa engaged?
6. Who was the audience, why was that audience chosen, and how was it
received? All these papers and the final paper (below) are to be submitted via Blackboard. The choice of weeks to write on will be determined By You the students. In addition to the reaction papers, there will be a final
1. Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, trans. Joan Pinkham (New York: Monthly Review Press,
2000).
2. Hakim Adi, Pan Africanism: A History, Chapter 5
3. Podcast – FM, P. (2023b, May 11). The People’s War radio show, Episode #32: Land, water, police violence
and Black Power in the French West Indies. Player.fm. https://player.fm/series/2946613/296535920
Thursday March 21st
Manning Marable, Let No Body Turn Us Around African American Anthology ,
1. Black Workers in the Great Depression Section 3 Chapter 9
2. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and the Fight for Black Employment in Harlem Section 3 Chapter 14
3. Black Women Workers during the Great Depression Section 3 Chapter 15 Elaine Ellis,
4. “Women of the Cotton Fields” Naomi Ward, “I Am a Domestic” Southern Negro Youth
Conference, 1939 Section 3 Chapter 16
5. Philip Randolph and the Negro March on Washington Movement, 1941 Section 3 Chapter 17
6. Jones, W. P. (2019, October 7). The Workers That Built America. Www.thenation.com.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/black-working-class-history-joe-william-trotter-book-
review/
Thursday March 28th
Manning Marable, Let No Body Turn Us Around African American Anthology
1. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Sit-In Movement, 1960 Section 4 Chapter 4
2. “We Need Group-Centered Leadership,” Ella Baker Section 4 Chapter 6
3. Malcolm X and Revolutionary Black Nationalism – “The Ballot or the Bullet”
“Statement of the Organization of Afro-American Unity” Section 4 Chapter 13
4. Black Power – Stokely Carmichael, “What We Want” SNCC, “Position Paper on Black Power”
Bayard Rustin, “‘Black Power’ and Coalition Politics” Section 4 Chapter 14
5. Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party or Self-Defense Section 4 Chapter 17
6. Revolution, R. for. (2023, March 30). A Stand Before the United Nations. Hood Communist.
7. Audio Visual – Kwame Ture Stokely Carmichael Eyes on the prize two 1988-11-07. (n.d.).
Www.youtube.com. Retrieved January 20, 2024, from
8. Audios Visual Democracy Now. (2013). Civil Rights Pioneer Gloria Richardson, 91, on How Women
Were Silenced at 1963 March on Washington. In YouTube.
9. Audio Visual Gloria Richardson Looks Back on the Rift Between Malcolm X and “March on
Washington” Organizers. (n.d.). Www.youtube.com. Retrieved January 20, 2024, from
