As the World Burns vs. Collapse of Western Civilization

-graphic novel is more effective towards the younger generation because it shows through the visuals what is really happening.

-The collapse of Western Civilization may appeal as more of a novel for adults but i think the graphic novel really hits the center of the problem and shows what is really happening

As the World Burns:

-graphic novel and the use of visuals 

   -powerful representation of what is really happening to the world

I am reading a few different books right now.. excited to have more time for them. 

1. Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Aparteid by Frank B. Wilderson

2. On Black Men by David Marriott

3. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse

4. Stain Removal by J. Reid Miller

ooo and 5. just got my hands on Sylvia Wynter's: On Being Human as Praxis

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so, i'll pull something from these.. probably not an amalgamation.  i'd like to focus on wilderson RN as he feels really central to what I've been thinking towards this semester. more ideas to come when I have them.

Constructions of Masculinity: you can’t train yr daughter like you train yr horse

Reading Segregation Signs in Getting Mother’s Body by Suzann-Lori Parks

            The segregation sign is a pillar of racism in the post-civil rights- United States. The segregation sign is an object of desire and social scorn. People look for these signs in museums and public exhibits, asking to be reassured that Jim Crow is indeed dead, yet wonder if these venues can adequately portray and describe the lived experiences of enforced race segregation. This essay will examine the cultural waste and debris left over from Jim Crow and its afterlife. The salience of race returns in the segregation sign. The contests over the meaning of segregation signs must be understood as part of the continuing struggle against racism and inequality.

As the World Collapses

Reminder: no writing conferences this week!

For classtime on Tuesday, please finish reading Jensen and McMillan AND a New Yorker article by
Elizabeth Kolbert, Greening the Ghetto: Can a Remedy Serve for both Global Warming and Poverty?
(Kolbert is also the author of The Sixth Extinction; we read 3 chapters of her book in early October).

By Monday evening @ 5, please create a "webby post."
This involves a coupla more steps than your usual "posts,"