Course: Introduction to Black Studies - bmc.AFST.B101.001.F26

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Select section Week 1: Origins/New Beginnings

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  Monday, August 31, 2026 Readings
  
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  Wednesday, September 02, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity Introduction: The Black Revolution on Campus.
  
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  Select activity Black Studies: A Critical Reassessment (2000)
  
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  Monday, September 07, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity A Black Studies manifesto: Characteristics of a Black Studies Mind
  
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  Wednesday, September 09, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Reimprisoned Ourselves in our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desêtre
  
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Select section Week 3: A Black Studies Origin Story

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  Monday, September 14, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity Democracy
  
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  Wednesday, September 16, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity On Firsts, Foremothers, and the "Walker effect"
  
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Select section Week 4: The Afterlives of Slavery and Colonialism

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  Select activity Of Our Spiritual Strivings
  
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  Select activity Venus in Two Acts
  
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Select section Week 5: The Sexual Violence of Gender

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  Monday, September 28, 2026 Readings
  
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  Select activity Suspended Absences and the Substrates of Naming the Female Slave
  
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  Select activity Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves
  
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  Select activity Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom
  
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  Select activity Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West
  
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  Select activity Confinement, interiority, Black feminist Study: A Forum on Davis’s "Reflections"
  
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Select section Week 6: Black Matters are Spatial Matters

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Week 6: Black Matters are Spatial Matters
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  Monday, October 05, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity The Last Place They Thought Of: Black Women’s Geographies
  
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  Select activity Introduction: Black Geographies: Material Praxis of Black Life and Study
  
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  Wednesday, October 07, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity Geographies of Power: Black Women Mobilizing Intersectionality in Brazil
  
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  Select activity Black Insurgent Aesthetics and the Public Imaginary
  
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Select section Week 7: Fall Break (No Class)

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Week 7: Fall Break (No Class)
Select section Week 8: Entangled Intersections of Blackness and Indigeneity

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Week 8: Entangled Intersections of Blackness and Indigeneity

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Select section Week 9: African Diaspora Theory

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  Monday, October 26, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity Defining Diaspora, Refining a Discourse
  
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  Select activity Unfinished Migrations: Reflections on the African Diaspora and the Making of the Modern World
  
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  Wednesday, October 28, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity I Entered the Lists… Diaspora Catalogues
  
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  Select activity Afrodescendant Women: A Race and Gender Intersectional Spiderweb
  
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Select section Week 10: Black Queer Feminisms and Inter-generational Intersectionality’s

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  Monday, November 02, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity A Black Feminist Statement
  
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  Select activity Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality
  
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  Select activity Black Nations/Queer Nations? Lesbian and Gay Sexualities in the African Diaspora
  
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  Select activity Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer imaginings of the Middle Passage
  
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  Wednesday, November 04, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics
  
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  Select activity Disappearing Acts Reclaiming Intersectionality in the Social Sciences in a Post-Black Feminist Era
  
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  Select activity On the Issue of Roles (Not on Syllabus)
  
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Select section Week 11: The Political Lives of Angela Davis, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Flexner)

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Week 11: The Political Lives of Angela Davis, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Flexner)

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Select section Week 12: The Body as Archive

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  Monday, November 16, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity Resistance of the Object: Aunt Hester's Scream
  
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  Select activity Introduction. In Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons
  
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  Wednesday, November 18, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity Black Girl Ordinary: Flesh, Carcerality, and the Refusal of Ethnography
  
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  Select activity "Quare" Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From my Grandmother
  
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Select section Week 13: Turkey/Tofu/Pernil Break (No Class)

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Select section Week 14: The Politics of Black World-Making

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  Monday, November 30, 2026 Readings
  
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  Select activity Introduction: The Scars of Memory
  
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  Select activity Daughters of the Dust (1991)
  
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  Select activity Conjuring Pasts and Ethnographic Presents in Zora Neale Hurston’s Modernity
  
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Select section Week 15: The Futures of Black Studies at Bryn Mawr and Beyond

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  Monday, December 07, 2026 Readings
  
  Select activity Black Studies in the 21st Century: Longevity Has its Place
  
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Section outline

Week 8: Entangled Intersections of Blackness and Indigeneity

Week 11: The Political Lives of Angela Davis, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Flexner)