COURSE SCHEDULE (subject to change)
Week 1
Jan 9 Introduction
Jan 11 What is the South? What is a Southerner? Discussion
What is the South? (download, print, and bring to class)
Week 2
Jan 16 The Post-Civil War South (Lecture)
Read about Jim Crow segregation: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/segregation
Instruction regarding the Green Book Assignment (handout)
Jan 18: No Class
Week 3
Jan 23 Green Book Assignment (DUE) in conjunction with reading the Introduction to Lemon Swamp, along with Chapters 1-7; Discussion of the book and what you learned from the assignment.
Jan 25 Lemon Swamp, Read: Chapters 8-Epilogue; In-class reading reflection #1
Week 4
January 30 Jim Crow
Jim Crow Laws: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/laws.html
Listen to Remembering Jim Crow: http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/remembering/
Feb 1 Southern white women, the Lost Cause and White Supremacy
Read: “Lost Cause Ideology” http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1643
read: The Confederacy’s “Living Monuments”
Listen to Uncivil Podcast, “The Spin,” http://uncivil.show/episode-the-spin.html
Week 5 Jim Crow from the Other Side
Feb. 6 Who was Lillian Smith? Read: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/lillian-smith-1897-1966
Discussion of Killers of the Dream, Parts I & II
In-class reading reflection #2
Feb. 8 Finish reading Killers of the Dream, Parts III & IV: in-class discussion
Week 6
Feb. 13 Early Civil Rights
Read: Chapter 1, McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street (get PDF)
Feb. 15 Read for discussion:
Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False
How Historian Tim Tyson Found The Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Murder
Week 7
Feb. 20 Who was Anne Moody? Read: Anne Moody’s obituary in the New York Times
Read half of Coming of Age in Mississippi
Reading Reflection #3 is due. See writing guidelines on the syllabus. COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI guidelines.
Feb.22 Finish Discussion of Coming of Age in Mississippi
Week 8
Feb. 27 Freedom Riders (Documentary)
Mar. 1 Midterm
Week 9
6 Spring Break
8 Spring Break
Week 10
13 Deep in Our Hearts, Chapters 1-5 (up to page 206); Students will report on each of the chapters and research the authors.
15 Deep in Our Hearts, Chapters 6-9; Student reports on remaining individuals.
In-class reading reflection #4
Week 11
20 Discussion with Joan Browning at Atkins Library
22 No Class
Week 12
March 27 Finding Emily (Read the chapter “Goat Castle – Chapter Three and Notes”)
Read the Process Blog: http://www.processhistory.org/finding-emily/
March 29 Primary Source assignment
Week 13
April 3 Southerners on Film, Read “South In Film Dreaming Of Dixie”
April 5 Who is Jesmyn Ward? Men We Reaped, read it all!
Week 14
April 10 No Class
April 12 No Class
Week 15
April 17
April 19 Who is Jeanette Walls? Please research this and report in class.
The Glass Castle, Read through p. 144
Week 16
April 24: The Glass Castle, Read 144 until the end.
April 26: The Debate over Confederate Monuments
Me and Jeff Davis are Finis
Why Confederate Monuments Must Fall, New York Times, August 15, 2016 (Print version, August 16, 2017)
The Whole Point of Confederate Monuments is to Celebrate White Supremacy, The Washington Post, August 16, 2017 (Print version, Sunday Outlook section, August 20, 2017)
The End
May 1 Last Day of Classes: If you were to write a memoir, what would you write about?
May 8 Final Exam