{"id":11,"date":"2019-08-28T23:29:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T23:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-slavery\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2019-08-28T23:32:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T23:32:37","slug":"course-abstract","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FYSM 104, \u201cDickinson &amp; Slavery\u201d with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets at Dickinson College during fall semester 2019 on Mondays and Fridays at 1130am at the House Divided Studio (61 N. West Street).\u00a0 The main academic course text is a collection of essays entitled <em>Slavery and the University <\/em>(2019), edited by Leslie Harris, James Campbell and Alfred Brophy.\u00a0 Students will also read articles, essays, and book chapters from leading scholars and intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Eric Foner, Colson Whitehead and Sean Wilentz.\u00a0 \u00a0They will study artists such as Moses Williams and Kara Walker.\u00a0 Perhaps most important, they will learn about key African American figures from Dickinson&#8217;s past, such as George Norris, Noah and Carrie Pinkney, Henry Spradley and Robert Young.\u00a0 Students in the course will produce several essays of their own and one web project that revises their earlier writing assignments into a multi-media teaching exhibit on a key historical figure from the Dickinson &amp; Slavery initiative.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AzLcBtmgKcw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FYSM 104, \u201cDickinson &amp; Slavery\u201d with Professor Matthew Pinsker, meets at Dickinson College during fall semester 2019 on Mondays and Fridays at 1130am at the House Divided Studio (61 N. West Street).\u00a0 The main academic course text is a collection of essays entitled Slavery and the University (2019), edited by Leslie Harris, James Campbell and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-slavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-slavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-slavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-slavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-slavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-slavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/seminar-slavery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}