{"id":1589,"date":"2016-10-15T16:08:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T16:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arielsheen.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:32:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:32:40","slug":"black-history-syllabus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/15\/black-history-syllabus\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro-American Political Economy and History Syllabus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1598\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14680844_10154701437097376_6613436580173935359_o.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lest we forget, the American government only\u00a0illegalized\u00a0chattel slavery and it&#8217;s attendant horrors out of economic and military necessity, and even then\u00a0reluctantly. Following Emancipation, white supremacy did not end, but merely took new forms.\u00a0Here&#8217;s a basic reading list related to that history and questions of tactics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Long History of White Resistance to Black Freedom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/15\/review-of-counter-revolution-of-1776\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America<\/a>\u00a0by Gerald Horne<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/15\/review-of-the-half-has-never-been-told\/\">The Half Has Never Been Told<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Edward E. Baptist<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2fSaiUx\">Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880<\/a>\u00a0by W. E. B. DuBois<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/29\/1553\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reconstruction Updated Edition: America&#8217;s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877<\/a>\u00a0by Eric Foner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/10\/review-of-hammer-and-hoe-alabama-communists-during-the-great-depressions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression<\/a>\u00a0by Robin D. G. Kelley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dzy9CQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement\u00a0<\/a>by\u00a0Akinyele Omowale Umoja<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2digthe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poor People&#8217;s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail<\/a>\u00a0by Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dHZHGA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass<\/a>\u00a0by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dHZTWs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, 2nd Edition <\/a>by Doug McAdam<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2eiqR73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunbelt Revolution: The Historical Progressio<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2eiqR73\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">n of Civil Rights in the Gulf South<\/a> by Samuel C. Hyde<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Padgett-Tallahassee-Bus-Boycott.pdf\">The Tallahassee Bus Boycott<\/a>\u00a0by Gregory D. Padgett *PDF*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dieMk9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance &#8211; A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power <\/a>by Danielle L. McGuire<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/It-Was-Like-All-of-Us-Had-Been-Raped.pdf\">It Was Like All of Us Had Been Raped<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/It-Was-Like-All-of-Us-Had-Been-Raped.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">: Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle<\/a>\u00a0by Danielle L. McGuire *PDF*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/review-of-a-world-more-concrete-real-estate-and-the-remaking-of-jim-crow-south-florida\/\">A World More Concrete: Real Estate and The Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida<\/a>\u00a0by N. D. B. Connolly<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Lawson-From-Sit-In-to-Race-Riot.pdf\">From Sit-in to Race Riot: Businessmen, Blacks, and the Pursuit of Moderation in Tampa, 1960\u20131967<\/a>\u00a0by Steven F. Lawson *PDF*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gamson___The_Success_of_the_Unruly.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Success of the Unruly<\/a>\u00a0by William A. Gamson *PDF*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Evans___The_Use_of_Terrorism__2_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Use of Terrorism<\/a>\u00a0by Ernest Evans *PDF*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2diecCK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement <\/a>by Lance Hill<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dOuNzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This Nonviolent Stuff&#8217;ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible<\/a>\u00a0by Charles E. Cobb Jr.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2d47XPZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness<\/a> by Michelle Alexander<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Black Panther Party<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/review-of-soledad-brother-the-prison-letter-of-george-jackso\/\">Soledad Brother<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/1550\/\">Revolutionary Suicide<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2drCbir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Soul On Ice<\/a> by Eldridge Cleaver<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dSYFK6\">Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party<\/a>\u00a0by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E . Martin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisoncensorship.info\/archive\/books\/hueypnewtonreader.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Huey P. Newton Reader<\/a> by Huey P. Newton *PDF*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2eh4Y6V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To Die for the People<\/a> by Huey P. Newton *<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0ahUKEwitzdS1qt3PAhWDSiYKHatPCS0QFggsMAI&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.citylights.com%2Fresources%2Fdownload.cfm%3FGCOI%3D87286100230650%26thefile%3DToDieforExcerptCL.pdf&amp;usg=AFQjCNExiXmH8pDTe36FFv2hTakKGZEFTw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foreward PDF<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Philosophical and Sociological Reflections and\u00a0Historical Case Studies on Violence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dHZYsV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict<\/a>\u00a0by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2dzzKIO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America <\/a>by Ward Churchill *<a href=\"https:\/\/takku.net\/mediagallery\/mediaobjects\/orig\/f\/f_ward_churchill_-_pacifism_as_pathology.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Gamson___The_Success_of_the_Unruly.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Success of the Unruly<\/a>\u00a0by William A. Gamson *PDF*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Evans___The_Use_of_Terrorism__2_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Use of Terrorism<\/a>\u00a0by Ernest Evans *PDF*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/beck_smtandterrorism.pdf\">The Contribution of Social Movement Theory to Understanding Terrorism<\/a>\u00a0by Colin J. Beck *PDF*<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1599\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/arielsheen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/14690927_305728266465792_728675862619846669_n.jpg?resize=840%2C730&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"14690927_305728266465792_728675862619846669_n\" width=\"840\" height=\"730\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest we forget, the American government only\u00a0illegalized\u00a0chattel slavery and it&#8217;s attendant horrors out of economic and military necessity, and even then\u00a0reluctantly. Following Emancipation, white supremacy did not end, but merely took new forms.\u00a0Here&#8217;s a basic reading list related to that history and questions of tactics. The Long History of White Resistance to Black Freedom The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/15\/black-history-syllabus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Afro-American Political Economy and History Syllabus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-history","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8e7kf-pD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}