Course Schedule

Course Schedule (subject to change)

Week 1. January 12: Website Tutorial and Film Festival

• Looking for Ms. Locklear
• Real Indian
• Sounds of Faith
• YouTube Selections

Week 2. January 19: Library Tutorial and In-class Guest: Glenn Ellen Starr Stilling

Meet in Davis Library, Room 247, 2:00 pm

Week 3. January 26: Ethnogenesis–visit to Research Labs of Archaeology

• Etheridge and Hudson, eds., The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 (2002, University Press of Mississippi), chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, and 7
• Stanley Knick, “Because it is Right” [Blackboard]
• Weekly Reflection Paper Due

Week 4. Feb 2: Kinship and Race

• Johnson, Guy B. “Personality in a White-Indian-Negro community” [Blackboard]
• Daniel R. Mandell, “Shifting Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity: Indian-Black Intermarriage in Southern New England, 1760-1880,” The Journal of American History (Sept 1998), 466-501. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2567748
• Gary B. Nash, “The Hidden history of Mestizo America,” The Journal of American History (December 1995), 941-964. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2945107
• Weekly Reflection Paper Due

Week 5. Feb 9: Ethnicity and Place—In class Guests: Southern Oral History Project

• Karen Blu, “Where Do you Stay At?” [Blackboard]
• Blu/Sider excerpts [TBD]
• Weekly Reflection Paper Due

Week 6. Feb 16: Gender—In-class Guests: Louise Maynor & Josephine Humphreys

• Josephine Humphreys, Nowhere Else on Earth (New York: Viking, 2001).
• Complete class readings and bring in an additional source that relates specifically to your research topic. Write 1-page reflection paper about why you chose that source and how it relates to the assigned readings.

Week 7. Feb 23: Migration

• James Taylor Carson, “‘The Obituary of Nations’: Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South,” Southern Cultures 14 (Winter 2008), 6-31. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/v014/14.4.carson.html
• Maynor, “People and Place” [Blackboard]
• Weekly Reflection Paper Due

Week 8. March 2: Expressive Culture—In-class Guests: Willie Lowery & Randolph Umberger

• Susan Gardner, “‘Weaving an Epic Story:’ Ella Cara Deloria’s Pageant for the Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, 1940-1941” [Blackboard]
• Strike at the Wind! [Blackboard]
• Outline of Exhibit due

March 9—NO CLASS

Week 9. March 16: Resistance—Required trip to Robeson County

• W. McKee Evans, To die game: the story of the Lowry Band, Indian guerillas of Reconstruction (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995).
• Outline Revision due

Week 10. March 23: Citizenship

• Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2010), Preface, Introduction.
• Weekly Reflection Paper Due

Week 11. March 30: Religion and Education

• Maynor, “Making Christianity Sing” [Blackboard]
• Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South, chapter 1.
• 10 minute presentation due on your topic

Week 12. April 6: Politics

• Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South, chapters 2-7, Conclusion.
• 1st polish of exhibit due; Experts make first round of comments

Week 13. April 13: Civil Rights—Required Trip to Robeson County

• Sider and Blu, excerpts
• Christopher Arris Oakley, “When North Carolina Indians Went on the Warpath: The Media, the Klan, and the Lumbees of North Carolina,” Southern Cultures 14 (Winter 2008), 55-84. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/v014/14.4.oakley.html
• Weekly Reflection Paper Due

Week 14. April 20

• Incorporate first round of comments into webpage
• Experts make second round of comments
• Prepare draft of powerpoint slides and presentation text for final web conference

Week 15. April 27: Recognition

• Sider and Blu, excerpts
• David E. Wilkins, “Breaking into the Intergovernmental Matrix: The Lumbee Tribe’s Efforts to Secure Federal Acknowledgement” [Blackboard]
• Final online exhibit due

FINAL EXAM: Thursday, May 6, 12:00 pm

• Web Conference
• Self- and Project evaluations due