AADS/ENGL 3328.01
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…
Reflection on Content What connections do you notice emerging across your journal entries? As you reflect on your entries, do you find any contradictions, corrections, reversals, or otherwise shifts in your perspective or reasoning between one entry and another? Or even within one entry? Compare your first entry, your 6th entry, and your last entry.…
Hi everybody! Feel free to check out the project Tess, Will, and I are working on and let us know if you have thoughts! What: Briefly describe how the form of your group’s final project has changed and/or developed from what you described in the first check-in. In our initial project check-in, we focused on…
You may email me your responses directly as a Word document, but I encourage you to post your project check-ins to the class site.* Doing so facilitates the feedback loop and also allows you to get a sense of how other groups are tackling similar or related issues. What Briefly describe how the form of…
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…
The BondsWoman’s Narrative, by Hannah Crafts is a novel that was compiled by Henry Louis Gates (who purchased Craft’s manuscripts at auction); in the novel, Craft recounts her experiences as a young mixed woman (mulatto), who eventually gains her freedom. As the novel develops, the widespread effects of institutional oppression seem to extend beyond the…
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…
The beginning line of The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Craft is puzzling: “Look not upon me because I am black; because the sun hath looked upon me” (Song of Solomon 1:6). Craft throughout her text begins each chapter with a biblical quote, yet the Song of Solomon is only used once. Why begin her story with a…
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…