F20 Black Atlantic: Resources, Pedagogy, and Scholarship on the 18th Century Black AtlanticMain MenuAuthor IndexFAQWeek 01: August 28: PedagogiesWeek 02: Friday, September 4: Thinking about Projects and Digital MethodsWeek 03: Friday, September 11: Black Atlantic Classics Week 04: Reccomended: Thursday September 17: 4pm: Indigenous Studies and British LiteraturesThe Center for Literary + Comparative Studies @UMDWeek 04: Required: Friday, September 18: Reading: Indigenous Studies in the Eighteenth CenturyWeek 04: Required: Friday, September 18: Book LaunchRemaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American CitizenshipWeek 05: Friday, September 25: Digital Humanities, Caribbean Stuides, and FashionGuest: Siobhan MeiWeek 06: Friday, October 2: OBIWeek 07: October 9: Black LondonSancho's Social NetworksWeek 08: Friday, October 16:Muslim Slave Narratives, Hans Sloane, the British Museum, Colonialism as CurationWeek 09: Friday, October 23: Reflection and Tools DayWeek 10: Friday, October 30: Myths of a White Atlantic (and Project Proposal)Week 11: Friday, November 6: Black New EnglandWeek 12: Friday, November 13: Woman of Colour and Mary PrinceWeek 13: Friday, November 20: Peer Review Workshop and Draft with Action PlanKierra M. Porter6b7d2e75a0006cdf2df0ac2471be73ef9c88c9e3Brandice Walker579eedcc76564f61b1ba7f36082d05bdf4fc3435Alexis Harper52f175308474d58b269191120b6cda0582dcde71Catherine C. Saunders80964fcb3df3a95f164eca6637e796a22deb5f63Joseph Heidenescher83b7b4309ef73ce872fc35c61eb8ed716cce705fJoshua Lawson8aecdcf9d2db74d75fb55413d44f3c2dfc3828bdKymberli M Corprue7f6419242e66e656367985fbc1cfa10a933ce71dJimisha Relerford1903b0530d962a83c3a72bad80c867df4f5c027fEmily MN Kugler98290aa17be4166538e04751b7eb57a9fe5c26a2Reed Caswell Aikendbd321f67398d85b0079cc751762466dfe764f88Brenton Brock619582e4449ba6f0c631f2ebb7d7313c0890fa00
Black Jacobins: A Well Written History
12020-11-14T11:14:47-08:00Joshua Lawson8aecdcf9d2db74d75fb55413d44f3c2dfc3828bd377911plain2020-11-14T11:14:47-08:00Joshua Lawson8aecdcf9d2db74d75fb55413d44f3c2dfc3828bdFor a while I had had C.LR. James’s book Black Jacobins on my shelf wanting to read until this class gave me the chance I had been looking for (I had previously resigned like with most of the books on my shelf to read it over break when it was more convenient) to find out what this text was about. What I found in Black Jacobins was a story about the history of the island of Haiti, the events leading up to the revolution, the various factions both along differing political and racial lines. But more than this text being about what lead up to the revolution and the many players with their own complex motives I found that this text was doing a particular kind of work that I found interesting, thought-provoking, and entertaining. But there is something about what James does that I find interesting as I think about what type of writing and the type of writer that I would like to be. In Jacobins, there is this sense that when James writes he does so in such a way that it is easy for the reader to understand, to parse out the different factions and motives that are at work in the text. Moreover, this text is written in such a way that even if you do not know the history of the Haitian revolution that this text will at the very least give you a good foundation on which to build on. There seems to me to be a problem in academia of how to make difficult or dense theories and make them accessible for those who may not have the time to read the primary texts. James offers an example of how to do the work of making things accessible to the general public without having to water down the complexity and nuance of the texts.