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People
- Nina Simone
Events/etc
- Summer of Soul/ Harlem Cultural Festival 69 (+film)
- Columbia Student Protest (69, Gym)
Activities + Assessments
- Research Project on unsung grassroots folks
- Study radical activists and compare their work with their representations in the Media
- Comparing Black, White, and Jewish Activism thru Am Hist and how they're viewed (why is one accepted and one repudiated)

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- There are Black Heroes!
- Blackness is something to be proud of
- Blackness is positive not negative
- Understand mainstream (negative) representations of radical activists/heroes

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- How do we decide who Heroes are?
- Who is iconized? What does it mean to iconized?
- What makes a Black Hero?
- Who decides what stories we share and why?
- Who determines what radicalism is?
- Why do people want to disassociate themselves from Blackness?

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Hero-ism

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Events
American Colonization Campaign (Liberia, Sierra Leone)

People
- Newport Gardener/ Occramer Marycoo (Liberia)
- Marcus Garvey
- Bob Marley + Other Artists, Fela
- Maroon Villages/
- Martin Delaney v Frederick Douglass on colonization (Douglass quote, “I thank God for making me a man, but Delany thanks Him for making him a black man.”)

Books
Blake; or the Huts of America Novel by Martin Delany

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Black folks had diverse feelings about independence and sovereignty
Black self determination rooted in humanity and 1st class citizenship

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- What ideas and philosophies did/do Black people have about Freedom?
- What is Self determination?
- What is Sovereignty

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Black Nationalism, Sovereignty and Self-Determination in the Black Imaginary

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- Black History 365
- Medieval Africa and Africans
National Humanities Center
- https://www.bu.edu/africa/outreach/
Resources for Medieval Africa - Google Docs
Film
- Summer of Soul (Harlem Cult Fest-Hulu)
Music
- African Peter Tosh
- To be Young Gifted and Black - Nina Simone
- Hip Hop Studies
- Ego Tripping - Nikki Giovanni (Performance by Kim Reese, A Different World)

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What knowledge do you want students to come away with after exploring this unit?

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Positive Ethnic and Racial ID formation....

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What does it mean to teach black students to be black?
- How can we teach positive associations of black history // figures

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- (Elizabeth) I can teach how white supremacy has manipulated the past to create and imbue our society with anti-blackness by highlighting Black excellence (over and over - not like a Black History Month highlight but just as a part of the curriculum) and asking (over and over) why Black excellence is often left out of the narrative
- (Edwin) Creating a culture of positive ethnic and racial identity through curricular representation. Moving towards a re-education about racial identity, knowledge of self and self-awareness
- (Carol) Knowing more about American history by exploring African American history, how do we see the truth of Am by studying Afram Am history.
- (Nyasha) Learning to uncover the inspiration for nationalism, self-determination, and nation building ideas. What does that mean for Black sovereignty how do black people want that to exist?

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- Obadele Kambon
- Inquiries
- Michel-Rolph Trouillot silencing the past power and the production of history (on the Enlightenment period)