There are a few extra credit opportunities available this week before the final is submitted next week Be sure to fill out TLH survey sent to your emails to get the $100 participation award As part of the TLH, I have one last task for you all that you can receive extra credit for If… Continue reading End of Semester Extra Credit Opportunities
On May 5 at 6:00pm on Zoom, the English Department will host a presentation by Amber Musser, author of “Sexual Excess: Queer Feminity and Brown Jouissance.” The Q&A will be moderated by Baruch students. To attend this event, use the registration link here: https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucO2uqz8rGdSwv_ajoRS3Uu4YShLeoNR3 If you would like to receive extra credit, please attend… Continue reading Amber Musser Extra Credit Assignment May 5th (details)
In class blog on Marriage, Intimacy, and Adaptation: For this blog. class review, we will focus on distinctions between the novel and the film (focus on the novel), intimacy, and the political implications of Clare and Irene’s respective marriages and create in the class blog posts. From Tate, Claudia. Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The… Continue reading In Class Blog Prompt on Passing (1929) and Marriage
Drawing on class lecture and discussion in groups of 3-5, CHOOSE at least ONE concept (exoticism, desire; racial uplift; respectability politics. These concepts will be discussed in the lecture, featuring the PowerPoint linked here: Reading Passing, Respectability Politics, Queer Desire, and Ugly Feelings. REVIEW with your group what you think your term means. DEFINE it… Continue reading Prompt for Class Close Reading of Scene from Passing April 7
Directions For the first part of the class (25-30 mins), in small groups (3-4) use the video or images you took from the Met (posted here in the shared google doc) to write a 100-150 word reflection. Describe the image/ content of video or hot take or item on display? Questions or ideas the item/… Continue reading Our Trip to the Met: Prompt for in Class Blog Reflection and Competition March 22
Option 1: Uploading a filmed video to Youtube (so it can easily be embedded into the blog): Go to youtube.com and sign into your account. If you do not have one, Watch the following video to set up your account and channel if you don’t have one (in the advanced options we can change the visibility… Continue reading Creating a Preview Video for your Blog
Passages for Class Discussion McKITTRICK, KATHERINE. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. NED-New edition. University of Minnesota Press, 2006. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv711. *** “I add the dimension of geography […] in order to call attention to the ways in which the black body often determines the ways in which the landscape around the black body… Continue reading Where is Harlem–Who is Harlem? Thoughts on Black Geographies, People, and Place
Dear All, As mentioned in the announcements, I had to switch our class from in-person to remote because of an issue earlier in the day. I walked or scrolled through the archive of Opportunity to demonstrate how I approach the large chunk or body of data based on key words familiar names (e.g. Claude McKay… Continue reading Scrolling the Archive of Opportunity Remote Class Feb 24 2022
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