How to Post a Hot Take in Vocat
This is a Youtube video on how to post a hot take in Vocat. It’s about 2 mins and it will help guide you.
Author: Erica Richardson
How to Do a Blog Post
And here are additional link and tutorial based on my other courses for how to do a blog post here: Written Directions for making a post: Before writing the blog post, be a focused reader: Read the prompt and take notes (page numbers and passages) while reading the assigned text. In WordPress, you can go… Continue reading How to Do a Blog Post
In Class Reflection and Whiteboard notes Feb 3
In class on Feb 3 reviewed our common associations with the Harlem Renaissance as well as things that surprised us. We noted that while we knew entertainment was a part of the age– the extent to which the arts expresses black identity became more clear after watching a 2 min history: And discussing “Enter… Continue reading In Class Reflection and Whiteboard notes Feb 3
Blog Post # 3 (Due March 1 300 word draft; March 3rd 500 words; March 8 final draft at least 800 words)
Prompt: What do these items under closer analysis tell us about Harlem as a place (or physical or imagined); “What is Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance according to the items you have picked out?” there OR a prompt of your own design. Remember your Goals(800 words) Poses and answers a question or offer an interpretive… Continue reading Blog Post # 3 (Due March 1 300 word draft; March 3rd 500 words; March 8 final draft at least 800 words)
Blog Post #2 (Draft Due Feb 17; Final due Feb 22)
Assessed Blog Post PROMPT: What does imaginative or fictive work do versus nonfiction? Poems versus data? WRITE AND POST: a draft of Blog post # 2 (at least 300 of 500 words) to Blogs@baruch. The questions for the prompt will be discussed in class. Post must include material on Survey Graphic selections. Image or form… Continue reading Blog Post #2 (Draft Due Feb 17; Final due Feb 22)
Blog Post #1 (Draft due Feb 10 for in class work; due Feb 11 11:59pm)
Prompt: What can the covers of the Crisis communicate about the Black experience in America? Who are these covers for? What do they suggest about the characteristics or implications of “the New Negro” as a trope or this new form of black representation in the US? Answer one or more of these questions drawing upon… Continue reading Blog Post #1 (Draft due Feb 10 for in class work; due Feb 11 11:59pm)
Archival Engagement with Crisis Magazine: #what do you see? Feb 3
Crisis magazine covers 1910-1921: https://modjourn.org/journal/crisis/ For this homework assignment, SCROLL through the covers of Crisis magazine linked above and create three hashtags as responses to patterns, themes, or an aspect of the covers you think you might want to think futher about. They can be funny or critical. For example ” #lightandbright” or #whatisblackamerica.” Post your… Continue reading Archival Engagement with Crisis Magazine: #what do you see? Feb 3
Reading “The Trope of a New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black” and “Enter the New Negro” Due Feb 3
A reoccurring phrase associated with the Harlem Renaissance was “the New Negro.” But this begs the question, what exactly is new? If the Black people had been in the U.S. since the time of slavery from 1619 onwards, what was so new at the turn of the century? With the assigned readings we will gain… Continue reading Reading “The Trope of a New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black” and “Enter the New Negro” Due Feb 3