D.A.T.T. Freedom School Summer 2015 Syllabus

In preparation for the summer workstudy program, read these articles:

(1) Critical Thinking & Employing Education to Develop A Critical Consciousness: http://wp.me/p4oYXR-63

(2) Black Feminism: A Short Intro: http://wp.me/p4oYXR-w

(2) Patriarchy & Gender: http://wp.me/P4oYXR-55

(3) Race, Ethnicity, & Racism: http://wp.me/P4oYXR-5o

(4) Books You Can Read & 3 Documentaries You Can Watch Instead of Exposing Yourself to the Hegemonic Lies in the Hidden Colors Films: http://wp.me/p4oYXR-3O

D.A.T.T. Freedom School Summer 2015 Syllabus:

Week 1: Capitalism – Week of June 28^th

Readings:

• “A Companion to Marx’s Capital” by David Harvey – Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 3
• “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery & The Making of American Capitalism” by Edward Baptiste – Chapter 1-2
• “Black Marxism” by Cedric J. Robinson – Chapter 1: Racial Capitalism – The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development
• “Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism” by Kwame Nkrumah – pp. 1-3

Week 2: Scientific Socialism – Week of July 5^th

Readings:

• “Class Struggle in Africa” by Kwame Nkrumah – Chapter 12 “Socialist Revolution”
• “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism” by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael – Chapter 7: The Dialectics of Liberation
• “Black Marxism” by Cedric J. Robinson – Chapter 3: Socialist Theory & Nationalism

Week 3: Race & White Supremacist Racism – Week of July 12^th

Readings:

• “Fatal Invention” by Dorothy Roberts – Chapter 1: The Invention of Race
• “Racial Formation in the United States” by Michael Omi & Howard Winant – Chapter 4: The Theory of Racial Formation & Chapter 5: Racial Politics & the Racial State
• “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism” by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael – Chapter 3: Power & Racism
• “Unsettling Ourselves: Reflections and Resources for Deconstructing Colonial Mentality” compiled by Unsettling Minnesota – “What is White Supremacy” by Elizabeth Martinez pp. 71-74
• “White by Law” by Ian Lopez – Chapter 1 “White Lines”

 

Week 4: Cishetpatriarchy, Gender, & Sexuality – Week of July 19^th

Readings:

• “Doing Gender” by West & Zimmerman (1987) [Article]
• “Doing, Undoing, or Redoing Gender” by Connell (2010) [Article]
• “Black Sexual Politics” by Patricia Hill-Collins – Chapter 6 “Very Necessary: Redefining Black Gender Ideology”
• “Heteropatriarchy & the 3 Pillars of White Supremacy” by Andrea Smith
• “The Invention of Women: Making An African Sense of Gender Discourses” by Oyeronke Oyewumi – Chapter 1 “Visualizing the Body: Western Theories & African Subjects” & Chapter 4 “Colonizing Bodies & Minds: Gender & Colonialism”

Week 5: Black Feminism – Week of July 26^th

Readings:

• “Black Macho & The Myth of the Superwoman” by Michelle Wallace- Chapter 1
• “Black Feminist Thought” – Chapter 1 “The Politics of Black Feminist Thought”, Chapter 2 “Distinguishing Features of Black Feminist Thought”, & Chapter 10 “U.S. Black Feminism in Transnational Context”
• “Sister Outsider” by Audre Lorde – The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House
• “Africa: homophobia is a legacy of colonialism” by Val Kalende: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/africa-homophobia-legacy-colonialism

Week 6: Anti-Colonial Struggle – Week of August 2^nd

Readings:

• “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism” by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael – Chapter 8: Solidarity with Latin America & Chapter 10: Black Liberation & Palestinian Revolutions
• “Class Struggle in Africa” by Kwame Nkrumah – Chapters 1-4 (29 pgs)
• Subcommander Marcos of the EZLN’s letter to Mumia Abu Jamal – http://www.laespinadelnorte.com/blog/letter-mumia-abu-jamal-subcomandante-insurgente-marcos-7
• “The Colonialism That is Settled and the Colonialism That Never Happened” by Andrea Smith – https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2014/06/25/the-colonialism-that-is-settled-and-the-colonialism-that-never-happened/
• “Decolonizing together: Moving beyond a politics of solidarity toward a practice of decolonization” by H. Walia – http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/decolonizing-together
• “Don’t forget that ideas are weapons “ by – Subcomandante Marcos – http://mondediplo.com/2000/10/13marcos
• Snelgrove et al, 2014 – “Unsettling settler colonialism: The discourse and politics of settlers, and solidarity with Indigenous nations” [Article]

Week 7: Pan Africanism (Scientific Socialism) – Week of August 9^th

Readings:

• “Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora” – Introduction
• “Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism” by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael – Chapter 14: Pan Africanism & Chapter 15: From Black Power to Pan Africanism
• Africana Critical Theory by Reiland Rabaka – Chapter 2 “W. E. B. Du Bois: The Soul of a Pan-African Marxist Male-Feminist” & Chapter 3 – “C. L. R. James: Pan-African Marxism Beyond All Boundaries”

 

Every week on Saturdays (with the exception of the 1st Saturday) we will have “Liberation Circles” which is our tweet chats where we discuss the readings & topics as a community.  This is where the participants & the coordinators come together to share and build in critical thought.  Below are the dates & times for the Liberation Circles:

Week 1: Friday, July 3rd, 2015 (7 PM – 8 PM EST, 6 PM – 7 PM CT, 4 PM – 5 PM PT)

Week 2: Saturday, July 11th, 2015 (4 PM – 5 PM EST, 3 PM – 4 PM CT, 1 PM – 2 PM PT)

Week 3: Saturday, July 18th, 2015 (4 PM – 5 PM EST, 3 PM – 4 PM CT, 1 PM – 2 PM PT)

Week 4: Saturday, July 25th, 2015 (4 PM – 5 PM EST, 3 PM – 4 PM CT, 1 PM – 2 PM PT)

Week 5: Saturday, August 1st, 2015 (4 PM – 5 PM EST, 3 PM – 4 PM CT, 1 PM – 2 PM PT)

Week 6: Saturday, August 8th, 2015 (4 PM – 5 PM EST, 3 PM – 4 PM CT, 1 PM – 2 PM PT)

Week 7: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 (4 PM – 5 PM EST, 3 PM – 4 PM CT, 1 PM – 2 PM PT)

The D.A.T.T. Freedom School’s Liberation Circle will be facilitated by @DATTFreedomSch

The D.A.T.T. Freedom School hashtag that we will use our tweet chats is #DATT