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TRINITY COLLEGE
Department of Government
College Course 109
Professor Chuck Stone

BLACK POLITICS

Description: A study of the Black community's historical and contemporary involvement in the political process and its effort to acquire power in American society; Black political activity during Reconstruction: an assessment of the Black vote as a bloc vote on the national and local levels; case studies of selected Black politicians; the inter-action of the civil rights movement and the Black Revolution with Black political activity; comparative analyses of the political activity of other ethnic groups; future projections for Black political activity as an instrument for integration, a balance of power apparatus or a separatist movement.

Textbooks: Barbour, Floyd B. (editor), The Black Power Revolt (Porter Sargent, 1968)
Demaris, Ovid, Captive City (Prentice-Hall, 1969)
Stone, Chuck, Black Political Power in America (Bobbs-Merrill, 1968)
(Supplementary, but not required: White, Theodore H., The Making of the President 1968, Atheneum, 1969)
Students will also be required to read daily The New York Times, The Hartford Courant, and The Hartford Times.

ASSIGNED READING

Black Politics as a Component of a Systematized Black Studies Discipline
1a. Lecture

Historical White-out and Black Consciousness
1b. Barbor, pages 21-26; 34-41; 42; 53; 54-58; 94-102
Stone, Chapter 1 (pages 3-10)

What is Power?
2. Declaration of Independence
Barbour, pages 149-161 (Selection from Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams)