Initial Chat with a Partner
Were you born in the US, the Caribbean, or Latin America? Where? Did you migrate to New York? When? From where? Where is your ancestral land? Do you still have contact with it? Do you belong to a diasporic community here in NYC? Where is home for you?
Group Discussion: Debriefing on the Syllabus
What struck your attention? What interested you the most about it? What question(s) do you have?
Poetics of Diaspora
How would you describe Princess Nokia’s audiovisual/lyrical understanding of diaspora? What type of affinities do they express in the video? What type of cultural retention do they practice?
I’m that Black a-Rican bruja straight out from the Yoruba
And my people come from Africa diaspora, Cuba
And you mix that Arawak, that original people
I’m that Black Native American, I vanquish all evil
I’m that Black a-Rican bruja straight out from the Yoruba
And my ancestors Nigerian, my grandmas was brujas
And I come from an island and it’s called Puerto Rico
And it’s one of the smallest but it got the most people
Exit Question
Beyond grades and the requirement of an institution, what does (Afro) diasporic study implies?