Black Ballerinas (Black Dance Packet Part 1)

Misty Copeland “This Week’ Sunday Spotlight: Misty Copeland.” YouTube.com. Posted by ABC News. Apr 6, 2014 (Accessed 9/25/20). “Misty Copeland Dances Romeo + Juliet, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux & White Swan at Vail Dance 2015” YouTube.com.  Posted by Nel Shelby Productions. August 19, 2015. (Accessed 9/25/20). “Watch an Exclusive Clip of Misty Copeland’s ​”A Ballerina’s…

Blues (& Jazz) Ladies Multimedia Packet

Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) Wikipedia. “Billie Holiday- ‘Strange Fruit’ Live 1959 [Reelin In the Years Archives]” Posted by Reelinintheyears66. February 12, 2018. Youtube.com <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGY9HvChXk> Accessed 10/7/19. Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894- September 26, 1937) Wikipedia. “Tain’t Nobody’s Business if I Do’ (Bessie Smith, 1923) Jazz Legend” [3:23]. Posted by RagtimeDorianHenry.…

Journal Prompt #1

Week One Journal Prompt In chapter 6 of Houston Baker’s seminal book Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, Baker suggests that we can think about the history of black resistance, especially black resistance through black expressive texts, as falling in one of two categories.  Black resistance, Baker suggests (via a curious appeal to natural history), deploys as either…