WEEK 3 T: Jones, Corregidora 1/20, 22 R: Jones, Corregidora [précis due] WEEK 4 T: Potter, Battle Cries (Ch. 2-4) 1/27, 29 R: West, Violence—Banyard et al. (p. 45) [précis due--childhood] WEEK 5 T: * Proposals for Final Paper DUE 2/3, 5 R: Potter, Battle Cries (Ch. 5-6) WEEK 6 T: Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered 2/10, 12 Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf (choreopoem); West, Violence— Few & Bell-Scott (p. 59) R: West, Violence--Donovan & Williams (p. 95) [précis—rape/sexual assault] WEEK 7 T: Crenshaw (1991), “Mapping the Margins,” 2/17, 19 R: Nicolaidis et al. (2010), “You Don’t Got Tell . . .” WEEK 8 T: West, Violence—Taylor (p. 79), Buchanan & Omerod (p. 107) 2/24, 26 R: West, Violence—, Robinson (p. 125), Banks & Ackerman (p. 133) [précis—week 7 or 8 readings] WEEK 9 T/R: SPRING BREAK! 3/3, 5 WEEK 10 T: Morrison, Love (pp. 3-106) 3/10, 12 R: Morrison, Love (107-202) [précis] *1st full draft of final paper DUE WEEK 11 T: Potter, Battle Cries (Ch. 7-8) 3/17, 19 R: West, Violence—Taylor (p. 145) WEEK 12 T: Butler, Wild Seed (Book One) 3/24, 26 R: Butler, Wild Seed (Books Two & Three, Epilogue) [précis due]; WEEK 13 T: Butler, Mind of My Mind (Prologue—Ch. 6); *second full draft to 3/31, 4/2 peers R: Butler, Mind of My Mind (Ch.7—Ch. 12) [précis due] WEEK 14 T: West, Violence—Simmons (p. 179) & Nichols (p. 187) 4/7, 9 presentations, *second draft comments DUE R: West, Violence—Tillet (p. 161), presentations
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