AADS/ENGL 3328.01
As promised, please find the link to our final project below. If you choose to participate in this asynchronous activity, please let Hannah, Jason, and myself know! And make sure to fill out the feedback form at the end. Please also circulate to any and all of your social circles at BC, so we can…
For my creative post I have decided to examine the reality of language and how it should be presented in contemporary films. In 2012, a Western film released by Quentin Tarantino, challenged the genre in terms of quality, and respectfully portrayed the harsh reality of language in the American South. While the primary focus of…
Looking back through my journal, I was reminded of a prompt that asked us to cast the characters that appeared in one of the readings from Uncle Tom’s Cabin as actual celebrities. I didn’t choose that prompt at the time, because for whatever reason, I had a hard time creating visual images of UTC’s characters…
Black people are forced to relive the trauma of seeing someone that could have easily been their mother, brother, sister, or uncle be killed ruthlessly. To so frequently see Black life treated so callously on a regular basis, is the visual reinforcement of priming. Black pain and sorrow have become a mode of mainstream entertainment,…
For my creative post, I chose to curate a playlist that represents some of the themes and conversations that resonated with me the most from our time in class together. I created this playlist by going through my own music library and looking for songs that fell under three main categories that I feel like…
Hannah Craft uses knowledge of the Bible as a marker of a dangerous education for slaves, not connected to their ability to read or write, but due to the content of the material. The knowledge gained by slaves through the reading of the Bibles allows for slaves to find themselves within the narratives and put…
I found this piece in McMullen. It is titled: Untitled by Omar El-Nagdi. The piece (with its natural colors and perfectly imperfect poignant shapes) is welcoming, safe, comforting, hopeful, realistic, natural, and simple while being incredibly powerful and meaningful. The piece flows and moves as I have said but to add onto this the piece…
In her novel The Bondswoman’s Narrative, Hannah Crafts highlights the impossibility of southern Christianity. While many southerners claim to be men of God, their pledge to preserve the ‘peculiar institution’ of slavery supersedes their Christian morals. When relaying the legend of Rose and her execution, Crafts notes of Sir Clifford that he “made it a boast…
Throughout the novel Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo Ntozake Shange illustrates the lives of three sisters who work to achieve their dream lives as African-American women in Charleston, South Carolina. While the mother encourages her daughters to pursue education, hopeful that it is a path to marriage and happiness, each of them ends up following different…
Pregnancy can be defined as a critical moment in a woman’s life when they are arguably are considered the most feminine. One of the most basic and primal differences between men and women is a woman’s capacity to bear children and essentially create life. It’s something that happens every day but it’s a process cloaked…