Research Methods in African American History
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- Poor attendance will impact your final grade
- Assignments will not be accepted after three days. No exceptions.
- ACCOMMODATIONS FOR DISABILITIES
- PLAGIARISM AND CHEATING
- Week One: Introductions Jan. 7 Introduction to Course Jan. 9 The Craft of History Week Two
- First Primary Source Analysis Due Week Five
- Week Six: Feb. 9 Citations MAS: Chapter 6 UTS: Chapter 7 Article Review Due
- Week Nine: Spring Break!! March 2 No Class March 4 No Class March 6 No Class Week Ten
- Week Eleven March 16 Individual Meetings UTS: Chapter 15 Note, on days you’re not scheduled to meet with me, you
- Bibliography Due March 25 Revising ASG: Chapter 5 March 27 Reviewing UTS: Chapter 19 Week Thirteen
- Rough Draft Due Week Fifteen April 13 Individual Meetings Note, on days you ’ re not scheduled
- Week Sixteen April 20 Peer Review April 22 Peer Review April 24 No Class, Reading Day FINAL EXAM
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AFA 3850 Professor: Evan Hart, Ph.D. Spring, 2015 E-Mail: hartee@mail.uc.edu MWF, Period 6 Office: Keene Flint, 20 LIT, 239 Office Hours: MWF, 2:15- 3:15 and by appt. This course explores the methodologies and approaches used in the study of African American history. Unlike other courses, this course does not focus on a single topic or period in the long history of peoples of African descent within the United States. Instead, it focuses on methodology. This means this course is designed to introduce you to what historians do, how they do it and why. The course will introduce you to a wide variety of historical sources, writings by historians, and pieces designed to get you to consider how we, as scholars, approach the topic of African American history.
Conal Furay and Michael Salevouris, The Methods and Skills of History (ISBN: 978-0882952727) Darlene Clark Hine, ed., We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women’s History (ISBN: 978-0926019812) Articles and primary sources available through Course Reserves ASSIGNMENTS
COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course is designed to do the following:
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MAS: indicates the reading comes from The Methods and Skills of History WSIT: indicates the reading comes from We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible CR: indicates the reading is available through Course Reserves online Week One: Introductions Jan. 7 Introduction to Course Jan. 9 The Craft of History Week Two Jan. 12 What is African American History? CR: Pero Dagbovie, Conceptualizing Black History UTS: Chronology of African American History
WSIT: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, African-American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race Jan. 16 A Basic Discussion of “Themes” UTS: The Long Rugged Road WSIT: Elsa Barkley Brown, What Has Happened Here? The Politics Of Difference in Women’s History and Feminist Politics Week Three Jan. 19 No Class in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Jan. 21 How to Think Historically MAS: Chapters 1 AND 2 UTS: Chapter 1
MAS: Chapter 3 UTS: Chapter 2
MAS: Chapter 4 UTS: Chapter 3
MAS: Chapter 5 CR: Guide to Primary Sources and Sample Sources
WSIT: Andrea Starr Alonzo, A Study of Two Women’s Slave Narratives: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and the History of Mary Prince UTS: Chapter 4 First Primary Source Analysis Due Week Five: Feb. 2 Reading History Critically, pt. I WSIT: Patricia K. Hunt, Clothing as an Expression of History: The Dress of African-American Women in Georgia, 1880-1915 MAS: Chapter 7 CR: Writing Reviews UTS: Chapter 5 Feb. 4 Reading History Critically, pt. II WSIT: Tera W. Hunter, Domination and Resistance: The Politics of Wage Household Labor in New South Atlanta Prospectus Due Feb. 6 Reading History Critically, pt. III WSIT: Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and
MAS: Chapter 6 UTS: Chapter 7
Feb. 11 Plagiarism MAS: Appendix B CR: AHA Defining Plagiarism CR: David Plotz, Why Stephen Ambrose’s Plagiarism Matters
UTS: Chapter 8 VISIT TO LIBRARY- WE WILL MEET IN LIBRARY WEST DURING CLASS TIME Week Seven: Feb. 16 Approaching History WSIT: Gail Bederman, "Civilization," the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells's Antilynching Campaign (1892-94) Feb. 18 Historical Methods, Pt II WSIT: John Thornton, Sexual Demography: The Impact of the Slave
WSIT: Cynthia Griggs Fleming, Black Women Activists and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Case of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson Week Eight: Feb. 23 The History of History MAS: Chapter 13 UTS: Chapter 10
MAS: Chapter 14 CR: Eric Arnesen, Up From Exclusion: Black and White Workers, Race,
UTS: Chapter 11 Week Nine: Spring Break!! March 2 No Class March 4 No Class March 6 No Class Week Ten March 9 Evaluating Evidence MAS: Chapter 9 UTS: Chapter 12
MAS: Chapter 10 UTS: Chapter 13
MAS: Chapter 11 UTS: Chapter 14
UTS: Chapter 15 Note, on days you’re not scheduled to meet with me, you should use class time to work on your research paper!! March 18 Individual Meetings UTS: Chapter 16 March 20 Individual Meetings UTS: Chapter 17 Week Twelve March 23 Drafting MAS: Chapter 12 UTS: Chapter 18
ASG: Chapter 5 March 27 Reviewing UTS: Chapter 19 Week Thirteen March 30 Research Question Discussion UTS: Chapter 20 Bring in your research question for discussion April 1 Source Discussion Bring in one of your sources for discussion 2nd Primary Source Analysis Due April 3 Draft Discussion Bring in a draft of your paper for discussion Week Fourteen April 6 History in the Streets: Public History UTS: Chapter 21 CR: National Council on Public History, What is Public History?
CR: Andrea Burns, Confronting the ‘Tyranny of Revelance:’ Exhibits and the Politics of Representation April 10 History Careers, Continued Rough Draft Due Week Fifteen April 13 Individual Meetings Note, on days you’re not scheduled to meet with me, you should use class time to work on your research paper!! April 15 Individual Meetings April 17 Individual Meetings Week Sixteen April 20 Peer Review April 22 Peer Review April 24 No Class, Reading Day FINAL EXAM: Weds., April 29: 12:30-2:30 pm Research Paper is due in lieu of a final exam Download 35.36 Kb. Share with your friends:
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