Hi friends... A little syllabus advice is requested. Im going to teach of a Honors 130 - Conceptions of Self, a course that fulfills the gen ed (or, core) req for philosophy and/or religion. From the catalog on HNRS 130: Drawing from appropriate works in social sciences, arts, and humanities, examines different conceptions and definitions of the self from diverse cultures and historical contexts. My section will be Masters and Slaves -- readings will include some history, some theory, and (as primary texts) writings by slaves and masters. Im going with a relatively conventional slave narratives (Jacobs, Northrop, Turner, and Douglas) plus some WPA stuff and maybe The Souls of Black Folk. The secondary texts: at least excerpts from the following: 1. Lawrence Levine - Black Culture, Black Consciousness 2. Kenneth Greenberg, Honor & Slavery 3. Orlando Patterson, bits of Freedom and Slavery as Social Death 4. Greg Grandin, The Empire of Necessity (with Benito Cereno) 5. Hegel, because.... 6. Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, & Universal History 7. Drew Gilpin-Faust, Mothers of Invention 8. maybe a bit from Jace Weavers The Red Atlantic I need some suggestions about writings from slaveowners. So far, Im thinking: 1. relevant parts of Notes on the State of Virginia 2. Some stuff from George Mason (necessary, I think -- plus maybe a field trip to his plantation) 3. the letter book of Eliza Lucas Pinckney 4. some speeches -- Calhoun, James Henry Hammond, etc. This list leans heavily on my own experience -- two Virginians and two South Carolinians. Any thoughts on other really useful apologies for slavery that are either (a) relatively short (200 pages or less) or (b) excerptable? Thanks!
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:17:37 +0000
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