| Class | Topic | Readings |
| 1 | Intro/Syllabus Overview | n/a |
| 2 | Culture of Conquest | Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, “The Culture of Conquest” https://cuny-bc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CUNY_BC/7l284q/alma990082085340106124 |
| 3 | Iberian Colonization and Enslavement | African Laborers for a New Empire: Iberia, Slavery, and the Atlantic World http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/african_laborers_for_a_new_emp/introduction_african_laborers |
| 4 | English Colonization and Racialization | “Servitude Slavery, and the Growth of the Southern Colonies, 1620-1760,” Who Built America? “Legislating Reproduction and Racial Difference (17th c. Virginia Slave Laws) |
| 5 | Property Rights and the Enlightenment | John Locke, Excerpts from “Of Property,” Second Treatise of Government (1690) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm#CHAPTER_V Jamelle Bouie, “The Enlightenment’s Dark Side,” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/taking-the-enlightenment-seriously-requires-talking-about-race.html |
| 6 | The American Revolution? | “The American Revolution,” in The American Yawp https://www.americanyawp.com/text/05-the-american-revolution/ African American Anti-Slavery Petition to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777) https://bcc-cuny.digication.com/ushistoryreader/African_American_Anti-Slavery_Petition_ to_Massachu |
| 7 | The French Revolution | “What is the Third Estate?” (1789) https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty–equality–fraternity/item/485 “A Woman’s Cahier” (1789) https://revolution.chnm.org/exhibits/show/liberty–equality–fraternity/item/272 |
| 8 | The Haitian Revolution | “Jean-Jacques Dessalines writings” (1804) Annette Gordon-Reed, “We Owe Haiti a Debt We Can’t Repay,” July 21, 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/opinion/haiti-us-history.html |
| 9 | Industrial Society and Its Critics I | Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels, Excerpts from The Communist Manifesto (1848) https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ |
| 10 | Industrial Society and Its Critics II | “An authentic account of the proceedings of the coroner’s inquest on the body of Robert Culley, a policeman, with the very important verdict of the honest jury,” https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/crime-broadsides/catalog/46-990080887470203941 |
| 11 | Capitalism and Colonialism in China | Letter from Lin Zexu to Queen Victoria (1839) http://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/files/Primary%20Source%2013.0%20-%20Lin.pdf “The Original Evil Corporation,” New York Times, September 4, 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/opinion/east-india-company.html |
| 12 | Japanese Modernization | “Voices from the Past: The Human Cost of Japan’s Modernization” https://www.colorado.edu/ptea-curriculum/sites/default/files/attached-files/voiceshandou t1.pdf Meiji and Taisho Japan: An Introductory Essay (skim for background) https://www.colorado.edu/ptea-curriculum/becoming-modern/meiji-and-taisho-japan-intro ductory-essay |
| 13 | U.S. Reconstruction and White Supremacy | Louisiana White League Platform (1874) https://www.facinghistory.org/reconstruction-era/louisiana-white-league-platform-1874 “Among contested New Orleans monuments, Liberty Place marker has always been a battleground,” The New Orleans Advocate, April 14, 2017 https://www.nola.com/article_675ac545-f0f1-5e1e-8f99-7896a173fcd5.html |
| 14 | U.S. Imperialism | “Guano Mania,” 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/guano-mania/ |
| 15 | The Russian Revolution | Alexandra Kollontai, “Communism and the Family” (1920) https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/communism-family.htm |
| 16 | Italian Fascism | “The Rise of Italian Fascism” (skim the whole source set) https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the-rise-of-italian-fascism-and-its-influence-on-europe “‘This Is the Violence of Which I Approve’: A Short History of the Political Violence that Helped Mussolini Attain Power,” Slate https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/how-italian-fascists-succeeded-in-taking-over-italy.html |
| 17 | WWII and the Holocaust | “The Nuremberg Race Laws” USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-race-laws |
| 18 | Group Project Introduction | United Nations Resolution 1514 (XV)—Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (1960) https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/Independence.aspx United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization https://www.un.org/dppa/decolonization/en/c24/about |
| 19 | Work, Gender, and Family in the Postwar Era | Betty Friedan, Excerpts from The Feminine Mystique (1963) Kristen Ghodsee, “Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism,” The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism.html |
| 20 | Cultural Cold War | “To Bombay With Love,” 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/from-bombay-with-love/ |
| 21 | Decolonization and Global Cold War I | Frantz Fanon, excerpts from The Wretched of the Earth(1961) “Frantz Fanon,” Black Past https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/fanon-frantz-1925-1961/ |
| 22 | Decolonization and Global Cold War II | “Anti-Imperialist Propaganda Posters from OSPAAAL,” JSTOR Daily, September 9, 2020 https://daily.jstor.org/anti-imperialist-propaganda-posters-ospaaal/ |
| 23 | U.S. Civil Rights and Black Power I | SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] Digital Gateway https://snccdigital.org/our-voices/ |
| 24 | U.S. Civil Rights and Black Power II | “Brooklyn College President’s April 18, 1969, Response to Puerto Rican and African-American Students’ 18 Demands,” CUNY Digital History Archive https://cdha.cuny.edu/items/show/13912. “1961-1969: The Creation of CUNY – Open Admissions Struggle,” CUNY Digital History Archive https://cdha.cuny.edu/coverage/coverage/show/id/23 |
| 25 | n/a | In-class meetings about group project |
| 26 | n/a | In-class meetings about group project |
| 27 | n/a | Group Project Presentations |
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