Unit Title	Author	Year
Seminar: Art and the Life of the City
Elizabeth Catlett, Charles White and the Taller de Grafica Popular of Mexico	Audrey J. Jackson	2007
Keywords: African American art, Art, artists, Mexico, printmaking, social awareness
The Life and Work of Dox Thrash: An Expression of Identity	Pamela Toller	2007
Keywords: African American art, African American History, Art, cultural climate, Culture, Dox Thrash, History, political climate, social climate
Seminar: Cinema and Civil Rights
African American Hair, Freedom, and Civil Rights: Using Film, Media, and African American Hair Styles to Analyze Civil Rights	Aisha Al-Muid	2020
Keywords: African American, cinema, civil rights, film, freedom, Hair, Media
From “We Shall Overcome” to “Black Lives Matter”: Learning from the Present, Building on the Past	Geoffrey Winikur	2020
Keywords: Black Art, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, collaborative learning, culturally responsive teaching, dialogic teaching, feminist pedagogy, inquiry-based learning
Lasting Effects of Slavery	Victor M. Pomales Jr.	2020
Keywords: African American History, film, Slavery, social studies
Seminar: From West Africa to West Philadelphia
Love to Tell the Story: West African Expressions Come to West Philadelphia	Bonnee Breese	2008
Keywords: African people, cross-cultural understanding, cultural and historical backgrounds, discover and explore, dismantle stigmas and stereotypes, English Language Arts, oral storytelling, Overbrook neighborhoods of West Philadelphia, storytelling, written storytelling
Seminar: New Approaches to the History of Slavery: The View from the Penn and Slavery Project
Slavery: A Tough Lesson to Learn	Margo Pinckney-Wilson	2020
Keywords: diversity, poetry, Slavery
Forging A Connection: Releasing the Bondage of Internalized Oppression through Quality Social Studies Instruction	Sondra W. Gonzalez	2020
Keywords: abolitionist, internalized racism. vacant esteem. ever-present anger. racial socialization, Slavery
The Dis-Connection of Our Roots	Stephanie M. Robinson	2020
Keywords: African American History, roots, Slavery
Seminar: Philadelphia and the Immigrant Experience
Crossing Borders and Crossing Time: A Tableau of African Immigration and Migration in America	Stacia D. Parker	2008
Keywords: Africa, African Diaspora, cultural traditions, Culture, immigrants, journey, languages, Liberia, memoirs, migrants, migratory experiences, oral history, Senegal, Sierra Leone, social traditions, trasnformation, tribes, world history
Seminar: That's My Song! Musical Genre as Social Contract
Music as Activism: Warrior’s Don’t Cry and Protest in the Civil Rights Movement	Renae Curless	2017
Keywords: African American History, African American literature, Civil Rights Movement, integration, little rock, melba patillo beals, Music, poetry, racism, segregation
Seminar: The Aesthetics of Hip Hop
Bridging the Gap: Hip-Hop and the Second Generation English Romantic Poets	John J. Grob	2008
Keywords: contemporary era, English, Hip-Hop Rap poets, inquiry-based project, poetry, Second Generation English Romantic poets
The Sankofa – Hip Hop Connection	Karen L. Brinkley	2008
Keywords: analyze and critique, comparative analysis, Critical thinking, Ghana, hip-hop, importance of music, movies, past traditions, primary source documents, rap music, sankofa, Technology, Twi language
Dissecting Lyrics	Lisa Katzer	2008
Keywords: 4th Grade, 5th grade, display, dissecting lyrics, figurative language, hip-hop, listening skills, meaning and awareness, meaningful learning, perform, rap music, vocabulary, writing poetry
Using Rap Lyrics as a Resource in the Secondary English Classroom	Lisa Kelly	2008
Keywords: African American, African-based American art form, analyze, Bronx, city students, comments on current events, enjoy, literary devices, literary skills, literary styles, rap music, rap tells stories, relevant to student life, tells stories, trace themes
Seminar: The Dark Fantastic: Reading Science Fiction, Fantasy and Comics to Change the World
Police Free City: Writing Emancipatory Visionary Fiction	Charlie McGeehan	2020
Keywords: Black Lives Matter, dark fantastic cycle, fantasy, fiction, Literature, Reading, science fiction, social studies, the Hunger Games, writing
Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond
Poetry and Music of the Harlem Renaissance and Today	Alexandra Volin Avelin	2006
Keywords: African American activists, Alain Locke, poetry, The Harlem Renaissance
Soul to Spirit to Speak to Writers: Poetry and Song	Bonnee L. Breese	2006
Keywords: african american poetry, Black Poets, Harlem Renaissance, poetry, Women poets
Seminar: Thinking Black, Writing Revolution: The Harlem Renaissance in Conversation with the Black Arts Movement
To Write with Fire: Unapologetic Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement	Wendi Mungai Umoren	2016
Keywords: aesthetics, African American, black arts movement, Harlem Renaissance, literary period, poetry, racism, revolution