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…
I’d like to build on my last post by looking at the same area of Incidents and sticking with the idea of family, but this time analyzing a different textual object. I found this section of the text to be incredibly rich for analysis. After talking about Benjamin, Linda then goes on to talk about…
Click here for a PDF version of this form. [Be sure to complete both pages. Use additional pages as needed.] PAGE 1 – Reflection YOUR NAME: ______________________________ 1- Describe the knowledge and/or skills you gained and/or strengthened while working on this project? 2- What aspects of the project did you find most challenging and why?…
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly is a modern day masterpiece. The album is archived in the library of congress, taught in college courses around the world, and it is forever engraved in black history. Lamar, commonly known as a rap and hip-hop artist, uses Jazz to root To Pimp a Butterfly and take modern…
For my creative post I decided to make a painting inspired from an MFA art exhibit featured earlier this year by Basquiat, a black street artist, combined with my interpretation of Indigo’s character in Cypress, Sassafrass, and Indigo. Basquiat was a part of the “neo-expressionism movement” and created art in the 80s in Manhattan. His…
For my creative post, I decided to write some of my own versions of Indigo’s moon journeys/life recipes from the perspective of the grown up Indigo we see at the end of the novel. When reading Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo, I found myself really missing Indigo’s spiritual and whimsical voice in the middle. I liked…
As I began to work on our final project for this class I found myself repeatedly wanting to turn to Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do The Right Thing. Lee plays the main character Mookie, a young, black delivery guy at the local pizzeria owned by Sal–an Italian-American. It takes place on one block in the…
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…
In Chapter I, “Childhood,” the author is giving a description of her “early formative years,” and through this, provides a lot of information regarding her family’s experience with slavery (Jacobs, p. 7). Linda first introduces her grandmother’s youngest son, Benjamin, stating that, “There become so little distinction in our ages that he seemed extra like…
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…