PRIMARY MATERIALS FOR September 19

RE-View the photograph: Augustus Washington, Portrait of John Brown

Research John Brown, the 1849 raid on Harper’s Ferry, the US, the world in 1847; bring in 1 date/event to share

Read Wallace and Smith, “Introduction” (from Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity, pp. 1-17)

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Additional materials:

Moten, Fred, “The Resistance of the Object: Aunt Hester’s Scream” (introduction to In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition) (optional additional reading, NOT REQUIRED)

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