Unit 1
Week 1
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Kant, Critique Of Judgment | all | |
| Roelofs, The Cultural Promise of the Aesthetic | all |
Week 2
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards, A Divine and Supernatural Light | all | |
| Edwards, The Nature of True Virtue | all |
Week 3
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Apess, Selections | all | |
| Occom, Selections | all | |
| Pratt, Native Pragmatism, chap. 1 | all |
Week 4
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Gikandi, Slavery and the Culture of Taste (“Overture”) | all | |
| Gikandi, Slavery and the Culture of Taste (“Slavery and White Self-Fashioning”) | all | |
| Jefferson, Notes On State Of Virginia | all | |
| Wheatley, Selections | all |
Unit 2
Week 5
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Emerson, “Self-Reliance” | all | |
| Emerson, “The American Scholar” | all |
Week 6
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Cavell, “Aversive Thinking” | all | |
| Cavell, “Thinking of Emerson” | all | |
| Cavell, Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, introduction | all | |
| Emerson, “Circles” | all | |
| Emerson, “Experience” | all |
Week 7
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Fuller, Summer on the Lakes (excerpts) | all | |
| Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century | all |
Week 8
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Douglass, “Pictures and Progress” | all | |
| Douglass, “The Claims of the Negro” | all |
Unit 3
Week 9
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Peirce, “Fixation of Belief” | all | |
| Peirce, “How to Make Our Ideas Clear” | all |
Week 10
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| James, “Does Consciousness Exist?” | all | |
| James, “On A Certain Blindness” | all | |
| James, Pluralistic Universe (excerpts) | all |
Week 11
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Dewey, Art as Experience (excerpt) | all |
Week 12
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Addams, “Subjective Necessity” | all | |
| Santayana, The Sense of Beauty (excerpt) | all |
Unit 4
Week 13
Week 14
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| DuBois, “Criteria of Negro Art” | all | |
| Locke, “Art or Propaganda?” | all | |
| Locke, “Legacy of the Ancestral Arts” | all | |
| Locke, “Values and Imperatives” | all |
Week 15
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Anzaldua, Borderlands, chap. 1 | all | |
| Anzaldua, Borderlands, chap. 7 | all | |
| Anzaldua, Borderlands, preface | all | |
| Marti, “Our America” | all | |
| Zitkala-Ša, “Why I Am a Pagan” | all |
Week 16
| Reading | Assignment | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Morrison, Playing in the Dark (excerpts) | all | |
| Taylor, Black Is Beautiful, chap. 1 | all |