COURSE SCHEDULE (subject to change)<\/p>\n
Week 1 What is the South?<\/a> (download, print, and bring to class)<\/p>\n Week 2<\/strong> Read about Jim Crow segregation: http:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/articles\/history-archaeology\/segregation<\/a><\/p>\n Instruction regarding the Green Book Assignment (handout)<\/p>\n Jan 18: No Class<\/p>\n Week 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Jan 23 Green Book Assignment (DUE) in conjunction with reading the Introduction to Lemon Swamp<\/em>, along with Chapters 1-7; Discussion of the book and what you learned from the assignment.<\/p>\n Jan 25 Lemon Swamp<\/em>, Read: Chapters 8-Epilogue; In-class reading reflection #1<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em>Week 4 <\/strong><\/p>\n January 30 Jim Crow<\/p>\n Jim Crow Laws: http:\/\/americanradioworks.publicradio.org\/features\/remembering\/laws.html<\/a><\/p>\n Listen to Remembering Jim Crow: <\/em>http:\/\/americanradioworks.publicradio.org\/features\/remembering\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Feb 1\u00a0\u00a0 Southern white women, the Lost Cause and White Supremacy read:\u00a0 The Confederacy’s “Living Monuments”<\/a><\/p>\n Listen to Uncivil <\/em>Podcast, \u201cThe Spin,\u201d http:\/\/uncivil.show\/episode-the-spin.html<\/a><\/p>\n Week 5 Jim Crow from the Other Side<\/strong> Discussion of Killers of the Dream<\/em>, Parts I & II<\/p>\n In-class reading reflection #2<\/p>\n Feb. 8\u00a0 Finish reading Killers of the Dream<\/em>, Parts III & IV: in-class discussion<\/p>\n Week 6 <\/strong> Feb. 15\u00a0 Read for discussion:<\/p>\n Remembering Emmett Till<\/a><\/p>\n Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False<\/a><\/p>\n How Historian Tim Tyson Found The Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Murder<\/a><\/p>\n Week 7<\/strong> Reading Reflection #3 is due. See writing guidelines on the syllabus.\u00a0 COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI<\/a> guidelines.<\/p>\n Feb.22\u00a0\u00a0 Finish Discussion of Coming of Age in Mississippi<\/em><\/p>\n Week 8<\/strong> Mar. 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Midterm<\/p>\n Week 9<\/strong> Week 10<\/strong> 15\u00a0\u00a0 Deep in Our Hearts<\/em>, Chapters 6-9; Student reports on remaining individuals.<\/p>\n In-class reading reflection #4<\/p>\n Week 11<\/strong><\/p>\n 20 Discussion with Joan Browning at Atkins Library<\/p>\n 22 No Class<\/p>\n Week 12<\/strong> March 29 Primary Source assignment<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Week 13<\/strong><\/p>\n April 3 Southerners on Film, Read “South In Film Dreaming Of Dixie<\/a>” Week 15 Week 16<\/strong> April 26: The Debate over Confederate Monuments
\n<\/strong>Jan 9 \u00a0\u00a0 Introduction
\nJan 11 What is the South? What is a Southerner? Discussion<\/p>\n
\nJan 16 The Post-Civil War South (Lecture)<\/p>\n
\nRead: \u201cLost Cause Ideology\u201d http:\/\/www.encyclopediaofalabama.org\/article\/h-1643<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFeb. 6 Who was Lillian Smith? Read: http:\/\/www.georgiaencyclopedia.org\/articles\/arts-culture\/lillian-smith-1897-1966<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFeb. 13 Early Civil Rights
\nRead: Chapter 1, McGuire, At the Dark End of the Street<\/em> (get PDF)<\/p>\n
\nFeb. 20 Who was Anne Moody?\u00a0\u00a0 Read: Anne Moody’s obituary in the New York Times<\/em><\/a>
\n<\/em>Read half of Coming of Age in Mississippi<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFeb. 27\u00a0\u00a0 Freedom Riders (Documentary)<\/p>\n
\n6 Spring Break
\n8 Spring Break<\/p>\n
\n13 Deep in Our Hearts<\/em>, Chapters 1-5 (up to page 206); Students will report on each of the chapters and research the authors.<\/p>\n
\nMarch 27 Finding Emily<\/em> (Read the chapter \u201cGoat Castle – Chapter Three and Notes<\/a>\u201d)
\nRead the Process Blog: http:\/\/www.processhistory.org\/finding-emily\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\nApril 5 Who is Jesmyn Ward? Men We Reaped<\/em>, read it all!
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\n<\/strong>Week 14<\/strong>
\nApril 10 No Class
\nApril 12 No Class<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>April 17
\nApril 19\u00a0Who is Jeanette Walls? Please research this and report in class.
\nThe Glass Castle<\/em>, Read through p. 144<\/p>\n
\nApril 24: The Glass Castle<\/em>, Read 144 until the end.<\/p>\n
\nMe and Jeff Davis are Finis<\/a><\/p>\n