NOTE:
ASSIGNMENTS ARE LISTED HERE ON THE DAY ASSIGNED, NOT THE DAY
DUE. UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE DUE 11:30
PM THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NEXT CLASS.
Course
Objectives:
•
Students will be able to demonstrate a familiarity with the major
historical, economic, and political forces that shaped three slave
trades: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (1441 -1808), The Transaharan
and Indian Ocean Slave Trades (500 – 1950); and the more
recent and larger slave trades in our own time|
•Students will be able to identify and formulate arguments
based on information drawn
from multiple disciplines.
•Students
will also be able to analyze supporting details, and rhetorical
structures of chapter-length, college-level readings
• Students will be able to marshal evidence and methods
from different disciplines in support of an argument
•Students will be able to craft a short, thesis-driven essays
in a clear and comprehensible style
•Students will be able to analyze and interpret a wide variety
of texts and genres in written, aural, visual, and electronic
forms.
Required Texts
Available at the John Jay College bookstore, www.amazon.com, www.bookfinder.com,
or www.half.com.
Rachel Lloyd, Girls Like Us (Harper, 2011)|
Kathryn Farr, Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women
and Children (Worth, 2005)
Additional reading will be available, as indicated below, the
course’s Blackboard site under “course documents”
Class
policies are available from Handouts Grade
breakdown is available from Grades
UNIT
1: Definitions: What is Slavery?
August
31 (CLASS 1):
In class: introductions, signing of student
contract and
contract on plagiarism
ASSIGNED VIEWING: Price of Sugar (DVDs distributed in
class for home viewing)|
Assigned
reading: (A) (on blackboard under "course
documents"): Kevin Bales, Disposable People: New Slavery
in the
Global Economy, pp. 1-33. (B) Introduction to claim/evidence/warrant,
5 Pages
Prepare for open-note quiz at the start of class on 9/14.
Assigned
Writing: (due 11:30 PM on 9/13 by blackboard):
Claim/Evidence/Warrant paragraphs and other
questions on reading (click here) (this
assignment is worth 11% of your grade; 16% if you don’t
do it)
Does
all this writing stuff matter in the REAL world?
Actually, yes. If you want a job,
that is.
As
CNN recently reported, a survey of major employers revealed
that "no matter your field or position, your ability
to communicate using the written word plays a major role
in career success."
HELP
BUDGETING YOUR TIME:The Bales reading is easy and should
take under 1.5 hours if you read a page every 2.5 minutes;
the reading on claim/evidence/warrant
should take 20 minutes; the questions should take an hour
and ten minutes to do. Preparing for the quick quiz--if you
want to take notes you can use on the quiz-- might take an
extra twenty minutes.
UNIT
2: What’s Race Got to Do With It?: Slave Trades in the Old
and
New Worlds (500-1850 C.E)
September 14 (CLASS 3)
In class: Quick quiz #1 at start of class on
Bales reading and claim/evidence/warrant
Assigned
reading (due 9/20): (on
blackboard): Saidiya Hatrman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey
Along
the Atlantic Slave Route pp. 1-9, 19-33, 178-204.
Assigned
Writing: (Due by blackboard on 9/20 at 11:30 PM): Questions
on Hartman, Lose
Your Mother
HELP
BUDGETING YOUR TIME: The not-very-dense reading this
week should take 2 hours, if you read a page every 2.5 minutes;
the questions should take between 75 and 90 minutes minutes
to do.
September
21 (CLASS 4)
In
class:Start viewing Adanggaman in class
Assigned Viewing: the rest of Adanggaman (DVD for home
view available at the ISP office
for $3.00; 5 copies on reserve under “Umbach” at the
JJ library’s reserve desk for free)
Assigned
reading (on blackboard): Africa in World History,
pp. 121 - 133; David Brion
Davis, Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery, pp. 17
- 19; Thornton, The Birth of the Atlantic
World, pp. 36-39, Tignor, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart,
131-136.
prepare
for open-note quiz on 10/5 readings; only handwritten notes will
be permitted
HELP
BUDGETING YOUR TIME:There’s somewhat
more work than usual this week because we have no class on
9/28. The film will take 1.5 hours (minus whatever we get
through in class); the 22 pages of reading will take a little
over an hour if you read at about 3 minutes a page, and perhaps
an extra twenty minutes to take notes if you wish to do so
for the open note quiz on 10/05; the questions will take an
hour and twenty minutes. All that adds up to about 4 to 4.5
hours, which sounds like a lot but is actually fairly reasonable
since you won’t have our usual two and a half hour class
this week.
September 28 NO
CLASS TODAY, BUT:
PREPARE FOR OPEN-NOTE QUIZ ON 10/05 ON READING ASSIGNED 9/21
NOTE, ALSO, THAT YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ON THIS READING DUE 9/28,
8:30 PM. SEE
ABOVE
Assigned
Writing: (Due by blackboard on 10/04 at 11:30
PM): Evidence chart for f irst
essay. You will receive feedback on this chart before your write
your first essay (LINK FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT WILL BE POSTED ON 9/29
SO THAT YOU DON'T GET CONFUSED)
October
5 (Class 5):
In
class: Quick
quiz #2 at start of class
Assigned Writing:(Due by blackboard
on 10/11 at 11:30 PM): 3 to 4 page essay assessing the historical
accuracy of Adanggaman
October
12 (Class 6):
In
class:Activity on Abolition, the Enlightenment,
and the Birth of European Racism in the 18th century (in class
activity worth 5% of semester grade)
OPTIONAL EXTRA-CREDIT ASSIGNMENT: Write
up from in-class activity. If you do not wish to do the extra-credit
assignment, you can get started on the longer reading assignment
for next week.
UNIT 4: Africa and the Slave Trades to Islamic Lands
October
19 (Class 7):
Assigned reading (on blackboard): Ronald Segal, Islam's
Black Slaves: the Other Black Diaspora. Pp 1- 40.
Assigned
Writing: (Due by blackboard on 10/25 at 11:30 PM): Questions
on reading
Prepare for quick quiz at the start of class on 10/27
HELP
BUDGETING YOUR TIME:The 40 pages of
reading will take two hours if you read at about 3 minutes
a page; the questions will take an hour to do. If you take
notes for the quiz, it might take you an extra thirty minutes.
October
26 (Class 8): In class:Quick
quiz #3 at start of class
Assigned
reading: (Blackboard): “Of One Blood: Racial, Ethnic,
and Religious Aspects of Modern Slavery,” pp. 91 –
107 from Modern Slavery: The Secret World of 27 Million People,
edited by Kevin Bales, Zoe Trodd, and Alex Kent Williamson
ASSIGNED VIEWING: Heading South (2005) Available
through Netflix instant viewing; if you aren’t a member,
you can join for a free trial 10 day trial period.
Assigned Writing: (Due by blackboard on 11/01 at 11:30
PM): 1-page essay on film and 5 short questions on reading
HELP
BUDGETING YOUR TIME:The film will take
an 1 hour and 45 minutes; the reading will take forty minutes
(at 2.5 minutes per page); the questions on the reading will
take 25 minutes; the essay will take 45 minutes. Plan on just
over 3 and half hours.
UNIT
5: Sex for Sale: Prostitution
November
2 (Class 9):
Assigned reading:Girls Like Us, Rachel
Lloyd (Harper, 2011). “Prologue,” “Learning,”
“Risk,” and “Family” pp. 1-67
Assigned Writing: (Due by blackboard on 11/08
at 11:30 PM ) Questions on reading
HELP
BUDGETING YOUR TIME:The Lloyd reading
is easy and should take under two and a half hours. The questions
should take an hour to do
November
9 (Class 10):
Assigned reading:Girls
Like Us, Rachel Lloyd; “Recruitment,”
“Pimps,” “Johns,” “Victims,”
pp. 67-133
Assigned Writing: (Due
by blackboard on 11/15 at 11:30 PM)
Questions on Lloyd
PREPARE FOR OPEN-NOTE QUIZ ON 11/17
November
16 (Class 11):
In
class:Quick quiz #4 at start of class on
Girls Like Us, Rachel Lloyd;
“Recruitment,” “Pimps,”
“Johns,” “Victims”
Assigned reading:Girls
Like Us, Rachel Lloyd; “Staying,”
“Leaving,” “Relapse,” “Unlearning”
pp. 149-209. (On blackboard) Appendix to Paying for It, Chester
Brown (Drawn and Quarterly, 2011)
Assigned Writing: none
BIG
DEAL EXTRA-CREDIT QUIZ AT START OF CLASS NEXT WEEK
Unit 6: The Movement of Bodies:
Sex Trafficking
November
23 (Class 12):
(you
may arrive 15 minutes late to class today if you aren't planning
to take the big deal extra-credit quiz on the readings assigned
on 11/16 (see above); if you are planning to take the quiz, keep
in mind you will want the full 15 minutes for the quiz.
Assigned reading: Sex Trafficking: The Global
Market in Women and Children, Kathryn Farr (Worth, 2005)
Chapters 1-3
Assigned Writing: (Due11/29
at 5:30 PM by blackboard) Questions on reading
PREPARE
FOR QUIZ ON 11/30
November 30 (Class
13):
In
class: Quiz #5
Assigned reading:Sex
Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children, Kathryn
Farr (Worth, 2005) Chapters 4-8
Assigned Writing: (due
by blackboard 12/06 at 11:30 PM) 3-4 page paper on Farr
HELP
BUDGETING YOUR TIME:The film is 1.5 hours long; the
paper should take you 1.5 to 2 hours to write.