Your Reading Black Matter Annotation projects will be incorporated as one of the projects on the Minor Moves Project site. You can access that site via http://www.minormovesproject.org.
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To Support Art is to Support Life
Janasia and Carolina are both a part of this. Come show support for your classmates! The first clip is the promo for Carolina’s group “Fuego”; the second is a promo + full set the 2018 showdown for Janasia’s group “P.A.T.U.” View this post on Instagram We don’t actually practice, we perform. This Showdown: la tarima…
Do I have a good thesis? (checklist)
You can download the Thesis Check-list, featured on the image for this post by clicking the following link: Writing_Checklist for Thesis Statements. Use this document as a guide to help you put together your draft thesis. Please Note: While the syllabus asks for a draft of the introduction with a thesis, your intro draft does not…
Reimagining “Box Brown”: Visual Allusion in Freedom Song: The Story of Henry ‘Box’ Brown
Both the 1851 Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself and Sally Walker’s 2011 Freedom Song: The Story of Henry ‘Box’ Brown illustrated by Sean Qualls begin with a depiction of Brown’s birth, but very quickly the texts diverge. Walker and Qualls’s children’s adaption of Brown’s 1851 narrative re-visions the scene of Brown’s…
Final Project Group Assignments
Everyone who was in class on Thursday was put into a group that they listed as one of their top three. If you were absent, I assigned you a group. There’s not much room for fluctuation, but if you have concerns about your group assignment please let me know by the end of class on…
Matters of Looking: Panorama and Abolition
“Panoramas: 19th Century Virtual Reality.” Shannon Selin: Imagining the Bounds of History. <www.shannonselin.com> Accessed Jan 31, 2019. “Virtual Reality, 19th-Century Style: The History of the Panorama and the Balloon View.” Open Learn. April 13, 2017<www.openlearn.edu> Accessed Jan 31, 2019.
Final Group Project Texts: Please Consider
For the final project you will be divided into six groups. Each group will be responsible for an annotating some portion of one of the following texts. I want to encourage you to take this week perusing the below texts from the syllabus in order to get a sense of what texts and thus which…
class notes
Family Bonds -Sympathetic Reading -articulate and eloquent (who is the author) -Religion – and telling of the story of thinking the master was God. That the masters were comfortable allowing the slaves to think of them as God–> power Religion -Brown still willing to pray for the master Religion – Brown more humble before God…
Black Matter 