Winter 2016
MIST 3470 6.00 BLACK INDIANS AND NATIVE BLACK RELATIONS
Professor: Bonita Lawrence
This six credit course is to be completed in one term; two subjects will therefore be covered every week. This is a blended course—students will meet in the classroom at the start of the course and once or twice during the term, but the bulk of the work will be done online, using Moodle. Twice a week, lectures will be posted online concerning each section’s readings. All assignments will be completed online. The professor will be available for office hours in person each week, and will also have a day each week devoted to responding to questions online. Twice a week, questions will be posted online concerning the readings, the lecture and other audiovisual materials supplied. Students must respond to questions for nine out of the twelve weeks of the course. Each student will also provide, at the start of the term, an online story about who they are and why this course is of interest to them, which will be shared with the entire group, along with any audiovisual material they see as pertinent to their story. Some online group work in responding to questions may periodically be required.
GRADING SCHEME:
Responses to questions 5% x 18 90%
Online storytelling 10%
REQUIRED READING:
Forte, Maximilian C. (Editor) Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean. Maximilian C. Forte, Editor. New York: Peter Lang,
Brooks, James F. (Editor). Confounding the Colour Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2002
Course Kit
Madden, Paula C. African Nova Scotia-Mi’kmaw Relations. Halifax: Fernwood Press, September 2009
Tayac, Gabrielle, Editor. Indivisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas. Washington, D.C. and New York: Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, 2009.
Course Kit