tentative schedule : : :
*This course schedule is subject to change based on the interests and needs of
our course.
| week / dates | to read | assignment | due date |
| week 1
8/25 |
syllabus, course schedule | introduction posts! community agreements (we’ll do together in class) | 8/28 |
| week 2
8/30 – 9/1 |
“Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!” by David Graeber | Discussion post | 9/1 |
| week 3
9/6 (no class) – 9/8 |
Marina Sitrin, “The Anarchist Spirit” and Sheri Berman, “No Cheers for Anarchism” | Discussion post | 9/8 |
| week 4
9/13 – 9/15 |
“No” by Anne Boyer | Discussion post, “Ode to No” | 9/15 |
| week 5
9/20 – 9/22 |
“We have to become unreal and impossible” – interview with Marquis Bey | *250 word research paper proposal | 9/22 |
| week 6
9/27 – 9/29 |
Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement” | Discussion post | 9/29 |
| week 7
10/4 – 10/6 |
Zapatistas, “First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle, Today We Say ‘Enough is Enough!’ (Ya Basta!)” | Discussion post | 10/6 |
| week 8
10/11 (no class) – 10/13 |
Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas | *annotated bibliography due | 10/13 |
| week 9
10/18 – 10/20 |
Murray Bookchin, “Utopia, not futurism: Why doing the impossible is the most rational thing we can do” | Discussion post | 10/20 |
| week 10
10/25 – 10/27 |
Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, The Undercommons, chapter 3 ~ “Blackness and Governance” | discussion post | 10/27 |
| week 11
11/1 – 11/4 |
“Black Feminist Anarchism & Leftist Neglect of the African Continent” interview with Zoé Samudzi | *introduction and outline due | 11/4 |
| week 12
11/8 – 11/10 |
Dylan Rodríguez, “Abolition as Praxis of Human Being: A Foreward” | Discussion post | 11/10 |
| week 13
11/15 – 11/17 |
Peer review! | *1,000 word half-draft due | 11/17 |
| week 14
11/22 – 11/24 |
selections from Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin’s “Anarchism and the Black Revolution” | 11/24 | |
| week 15
11/29 – 12/1 |
Peer Review! | *2,000 word second aka “full” draft due | 12/1 |
| week 16
12/6 – 12/8 |
work on your paper! | 12/8 | |
| week 17
12/ 13 – 12/15 |
onwards… | *final draft of research paper due | 12/15 |
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