Course Videos

Toni Morrison: Love Is a Metaphor from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

Click here for the transcript of the Toni Morrison video above and a link to part 2 of the interview.

Week 1

• Introduction
• Discuss:
  • "Letter to My Nephew" - James Baldwin (see link below)
  • "The Creative Process" -  James Baldwin (see link below)
  • How to read A Mercy

Week 2

• Hour 1 - Discuss Africans in America (video to the left - please watch before class and take notes on relationship between what you learn about indentured servitude and race based slavery in video and its impact on the characters in A Mercy)
• ​Hour 2 -  Discuss pages 1 - 118 A Mercy

Week 3

• Hour 1 - Discuss A Mercy pgs 113 to end
• Hour 2 - Discuss Baldwin's theory on love & slavery

Week 4

• Discuss Beloved - chapters 1 - 9

Week 5

• ​Discuss Beloved - chapters 10 - end & Morrison's theory on love

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Reading List 

a_mercy_-_toni_morrison-1.pdf
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letter_to_my_nephew_by_james_baldwin.pdf
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beloved_by_toni_morrison.pdf
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the_creative_process_by_james_baldwin.pdf
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