Announcements:
- Check your email for confirmation of your paired presentation assignment! Instructions are on the sheet on the Assignments page
- First response essay due Tuesday 3/19. Details on the Assignments page
Highlights from 2/27 class:
- Reviewed chapter 31 (Crisis of Leadership)
- Ideological leanings
- Critique of Black institutions/organizations
- Music: Pharaoh Sanders’s “Black Unity” (YouTube)
For Tuesday March 4, Read Chapter 7, “Class, Race, and Power in America” in Amos Wilson’s Blueprint for Black Power. Here are some questions to guide your reading:
- How does race and social class connect, according to Wilson?
- What is the role of class consciousness?
- Pay close attention to the “Preparing for Power” subsection in chapter 7. What social institutions transmit power?
- What 4 processes does the ruling class use to dominate government?
Presentation by Chelsea, Layla, and Angela
Think about the institutional structures that Wilson argues the ruling class uses to transmit power and how parallel structures could be created. Think about how this might apply to your organizations this semester. What are they doing (or could they do) to create structures to increase the Black community’s power in society? How might we want their approach to be different from that of the institutions that currently hold power?
Fieldwork in the African American Community 