Date                               Texts /topics                                                           

6 October   TH.	Introduction Documentary The Pieces I Am
7 October   FRI	Toni Morrison, “Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foudation” Hortense Spillers: “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”
13 October   TH	Phillis Wheatley, Poems H.F. Jeffers, The Age of Phillis	Slave Trade, The Black Atlantic Europeans settlers
14 October   FRI	Harriet Jacobs, Incidents	Enslaved women; the “shadow family”
20 October   TH	Guest Lecturer, Dott.ssa Di Maio
21 October FRI	Harriet Jacobs, Incidents	Writing and Slavery
27 October   THU	C. Rankine, Citizen	Practices of citizenship; contemporary actions and practices of citizenship

28 October FRI	Frances Harper	poetry in the African-American tradition; women editors
3 Nov. THU	Z. N Hurston and The Harlem Renaissance	The Harlem Renaissance- Music and visual arts
4 Nov. FRI	Z. N. Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God	Black English; Florida; work
10 Nov. THU	N. Larsen, Passing	The act of “passing”
11 Nov. FRI	N. Larsen, Passing	New York in the 30s
17 Nov. THU	Passing, movie	The movie Imitation of Life
18 Nov. FRI	Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”	Feminist theory

24 Nov. THU	Writing Workshop
25 Nov. FRI	T. Morrison, A Mercy	Colonial period; Puritans and other religious groups
1 Dec. THU	T. Morrison, A Mercy	the Gothic; contemporary historical novels
2 Dec. FRI	T. Morrison, A Mercy
9 Dec. FRI	NO CLASS
15 Dec. THU 16 Dec. FRI	Presentations Unessay Projects