In addition to being here every day and contributing to our class discussions, your participation grade includes four additional tasks. You must do each one at least once during the quarter. You should use these supplements to your participation grade as an opportunity to extend our conversation. Please, share your opinion and perspective. You won't receive an individual grade for each of these contributions until the end of the quarter, though I may comment on them by email or in class. However, there should be no mystery about your grade. Just ask. Blog posts must completed no later than May 30, the final Monday of class.
1. Artifact
Each Monday of the quarter, there is an "artifact" listed in the schedule. And each Monday, a handful of people will be responsible for opening our class discussion. We'll read, listen, or view the artifact. It is your responsibility to get us going. You will need to inform yourself about the artifact in advance - tell us about it's creator, and the context in which it was made. What does it tell us about African American history? Share your opinion. Does it tell a story? Speak to us today? Perhaps it's old and outdated. How so?
2. Brief
Before one of our class meetings, write a short (250 word) response to the assigned readings and post your ideas to the blog (at least an hour before class). Don't just summarize the reading, find some way to dig a bit deeper. What do you want to say about this? Does it intersect with another topic we've discussed and how? Perhaps it reminds you of something you've learned in another class. This is also great time to raise a question for class discussion.
3. Debrief
After class, write a short (250 word) response to our topic from class that day (post within 24 hours). Take this opportunity to extend or conclude our discussion, have the last word, or connect to some bigger issue. Again, don’t just summarize. Your debrief should have more substance.
4. Bonus Material
Write a short blog entry that touches on something we've discussed in class. You may post a link to a news story, write a poem, take a photo (with a short caption), interview a relative and report back, write a first hand account of a community meeting or protest, review a movie, album, or TV episode. Demonstrate how you're applying this class to the world around you.
1. Artifact
Each Monday of the quarter, there is an "artifact" listed in the schedule. And each Monday, a handful of people will be responsible for opening our class discussion. We'll read, listen, or view the artifact. It is your responsibility to get us going. You will need to inform yourself about the artifact in advance - tell us about it's creator, and the context in which it was made. What does it tell us about African American history? Share your opinion. Does it tell a story? Speak to us today? Perhaps it's old and outdated. How so?
2. Brief
Before one of our class meetings, write a short (250 word) response to the assigned readings and post your ideas to the blog (at least an hour before class). Don't just summarize the reading, find some way to dig a bit deeper. What do you want to say about this? Does it intersect with another topic we've discussed and how? Perhaps it reminds you of something you've learned in another class. This is also great time to raise a question for class discussion.
3. Debrief
After class, write a short (250 word) response to our topic from class that day (post within 24 hours). Take this opportunity to extend or conclude our discussion, have the last word, or connect to some bigger issue. Again, don’t just summarize. Your debrief should have more substance.
4. Bonus Material
Write a short blog entry that touches on something we've discussed in class. You may post a link to a news story, write a poem, take a photo (with a short caption), interview a relative and report back, write a first hand account of a community meeting or protest, review a movie, album, or TV episode. Demonstrate how you're applying this class to the world around you.
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ReplyDeleteThe video we watched today in class "Tacoma Civil Rights Project" had many similarities to Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi." Both told the stories of racism and how bad it was for blacks. African Americans in both the video and book had trouble finding work, found themselves segregated, were denied of many privileges because of the color of their skin. African Americans still have a certain "rep" (if you will) today. There is still so much racism; blacks get discriminated today where ever they go. For instance, many African American men are judged when walking into a store for fear of that person maybe being violent or stealing something. This is something I feel that occurred when times were tougher for African Americans. In both the video and Anne Moody's book, whites were very hesitant to be near blacks, that's why they were segregated from each other. Different restrooms, schools, restaurants, stores, etc. In the video it showed how there were specifically two parts of Tacoma that were completely different; one part was for whites and one was for blacks. It's very insulting for someone to be serving the country, which whites live in, and for that person to become segregated and looked at differently. Both the book and video talk about living on minimum wage jobs or how it was hard to find a job because no one wanted to hire an African American. Luckily today, many things have changed and although we still have discrimination, it can only get better with all the different organizations like the NAACP.
ReplyDelete- Mary V.
My debrief. I feel kind of odd not knowing how to post this on the home page.
DeleteArtifact:
ReplyDeleteJean-Michael Basquait was born in Brooklyn, New York, December 22, 1960. His mother was Puerto Rican and his father was a Haitian immigrant. He was fluent in French, Spanish, and English. After facing family issues, he had dropped out of high school at 18. He was an American artist. He achieved his first notary as a part of SAMO (an informal graffiti group) who wrote epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the lower east side of Manhattan during the late 1970s. During the 70s is when the hip-hop, post-punk, and street art movements had fused together. During the 1980s, Basquait was showing his neo-expressionist paintings in galleries and museums all around the world. Basquiat’s focus was on “suggestive dichotomies” such as wealth vs. poverty, integration vs. segregation, and inner vs. outer experience. He did poetry, drawings, and paintings. His images were abstract and had historical messages within the art. He used a lot of social commentary in his work. I feel the skeletons he puts in his work are “sole black figures, half cadaver, half living entity that stares blindly at you. I feel that that is part of his Haitian/African culture. I feel like his work does tell us and show us racism and oppression. He's expressing the sorrows and cruelty throughout history, throughout his life. He's making us aware of what was going on through art. Unfortunately, Jean-Michael Basquait died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27 in his studio apartment.
Bonus Material
ReplyDeleteAs we are in the black lives matter movement and troubles surrounding it, the network lifetime makes a remake of the movie Roots in a time where we need to remember where we all come from and who we are. With this movie in the midst of the movement in rea life, it retells the story for roots to show great African ancestry really is and should have been equal from the start. It tells the story of African Americans roots and where they come from and puts a stamp on what should stand for all people being equal. This movie shows a powerful message from the original movie with the way it depicted so well the details of what African Americans ancestry went through and how it needed to be retold later now in the present with what is going on with today’s society and the race issue and problems with police. The movie returns to make for retelling the message being told about ancestry that lived in those times and in a way putting it in perspective what times were like then compared to how they are now with black lives matter movement. It gives a reminder of what the ancestry was about in terms of surviving this time in human history and how that African Americans have continued to fight for a long time. The showing again of the Roots story makes for younger generations to learn about what was the ancestry of the past and what they endured. Roots makes for a great movie that retells the struggles of African Americans in earlier times and I think gives thought to the viewers of the struggles relatable nowadays in the present.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/30/roots-returns-for-the-black-lives-matter-generation.html