"An African American History"
Objectives : This course should enable students to improve their historical and sociological knowledge of the African American history and invite them to think about the similarities with the history of the Creole society, history and culture.
- Lessons :
- Presentation of the semester class (schedule, assesment, exam procedures, web site use, etc.)
- 1. From the Jamestown Colony to the Revolution (1620-1776) (
1000 Ko)
The first Africans in North America - Where did the slaves come from? - The Middle Passage - The origin of American slavery
The effects of slavery - The slaves’ resistance - The first protest against slavery - The secret meanings of spirituals
The slave catechism - The black church - Stono, South Carolina, 1739
- 2.
From
Resistance to Reconstruction (1776-1877) ( 730 Ko)
The word “slavery” in the U.S. Constitution - The Underground Railroad - Harriet Tubman - The slave revolts
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 - Christiana, Pennsylvania, 1851 - Slavery in the new territories - “Uncle’s Tom cabin”
Frederick Douglass - The causes of the Civil War - African-Americans in the Civil War - The Battle of Fort Pillow -The Reconstruction
- 3. From the Great Migration to World War I
(1878-1919) ( 710 Ko)
Erosion of Black Rights - Emigration from the South - The Ku Klux Klan - The fight against lynching
W. E. B. Du Bois - Blues, Ragtime and Jazz - Jim Crow Laws - Segregation in the South -Sharecropping
Increased Disfranchisement - African American Responses -Rise of Populism - Racial Accommodation
Black Culture in the Early 20th Century - The Great Migration - Early Black Resistance to Segregation - World War I
- 4. From Marcus Garvey to the Brown vs Board
of Education
(1920-1954) ( 780 Ko)
The Postwar Years - The Harlem Renaissance - The Great Depression - The New Deal - World War II
Postwar Civil Rights Activities - The Cold War - The Brown Decision
- Continuation and end of part 4
- 5.
From the Civil Rights Movement to
Barack Obama (1954-2008) ( 2,5 Mo)
The Struggle for Equal Rights - Freedom Rides - Nonviolent Protests - Voter Registration
Black Power and Black Pride - The Struggle for Economic Equality - The Poor People’s Campaign
Busing - Conservative Backlash - The Carter Years - The Reagan Years - Affirmative Action
Political and Social Gains - Race and Class - Differing Racial Perceptions - The first African American President
- Pratical classes :
- Commentary
on a document : #1. "Slavery
in the West Indies" ( 140 Ko)
- Grammar : The Quantifiers ( 500 Ko)
- Commentary
on a document : #2. "Slavery
as it exists in America" ( 320 Ko)
- Grammar Relative clauses ( 450 Ko) - Word order ( 90 Ko) - Commentary
on a document : #3. "Fourth of July"
A poem by W. L. Garrison ( 84 Ko)
- Grammar : Questionning ( 160 Ko) - Grammar : Pronouns & Possessives ( 230 Ko) - Demonstratives
( 180 Ko)
- Continuous assessment (see below)
-
Corrected continuous assessment : listing of most common mistakes
- Activity : common mistakes ( 10 Ko)
- Continuous assessment :
- Written commentary on one of the 3 studied documents (#1, #2 or #3 - see above) -
(permitted documents and dictionary)
Grammar MCQ (25 items) - Question ( 20
Ko).
- Corrected version : N.C.
- Continuous assessment marks ( 10
Ko).
- Final exam :
- Written commentary on a document (coef. 3)
5 questions on "African-American History" (coef. 1)
Sujet : N.C.
Corrected version : N.C.
- Useful documents :
- African-Americans,
Facts and Figures ( 215 Ko)
- African
American History Timeline ( 210 Ko)
- Frederick
Douglass, an American slave ( 405 Ko)
- 4
Historical Maps ( 350 Ko)
- Useful links :
[Main page] - [Contact]