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Course notes for Monday, November 30

By jschlosser
November 29, 2015 - 20:08
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I.

We'll take a few minutes to check-in about the final event as well as to discuss what would best serve your final projects in the next few days. Remember that we do not have readings scheduled for next Monday (12/7).

 

II.

As I described in my message over the weekend, I'd like to break into groups to present the four articles supplementing our readings of Olson & Davis as well as the Dean Spade & Reina Gossett conversations. As I wrote on Friday:

Confusing

By paddington
November 29, 2015 - 10:08
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  • "objectivity"-When people regard human beings, nature or the earth as objects, that is to say they are thinking of the issues of ecology and environment something happening in distant. Latour affirms that people need to shift to "subjectivity".
  • "subjectivity"-"Earth is quaking anew ... because it is being transformed by our doing. (P4)" Human beings have become the subject of this planet. The earth is not moving but they are moving the earth. Thus they are the cause of this environmental destruction.
  •  "animate", "deanimate"... "semiotic", "ontologic"-I could not understand what Latour was saying at the rest of the part from when he began to use these words.

as inspiration for publishing your silence papers on-line

By Anne Dalke
November 27, 2015 - 15:10
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John Edgar Wideman Embraces the Future, Publishers Weekly (May 3, 2010):

A noted literary author chooses digital publishing for his new collection of stories, Briefs

Self-publishing for me is no Nat Turner rebellion against fat books or traditional publishing….Though not a fugitive slave, I still relish shaking things up. Hoping it might be more affordable for people like those I’d grown up with in Homewood, the novel Sent for You Yesterday was published in 1983 as a paperback original…

Education as an Opportunity for Revolutionary Discontentment

By The Unknown
November 26, 2015 - 05:10
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W.E.B. Du Bois recognizes in “The Souls of Black Folk” a complex and paradoxical process of defining the struggles and achievements of “Negroes.” Du Bois endeavors to articulate the racism inflicted upon and experienced by “Negroes” and the meanings and shapes it takes in “American” culture and society, while not categorizing and attributing specific attributes to particular races. It is essential for Du Bois to focus on racial divides in order to recognize that certain people experience violence and hatred more often than others because of how their skin color is perceived. Du Bois uses this argument to demonstrate that no matter how hard “Negroes” have worked and how determined they have been, “Negroes,” are not seen as equals in society.

Power, Privilege, Prison, and Primary Education

By Shirah Kraus
November 25, 2015 - 22:41
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I saw this image on twitter and it stuck with me. 

In The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander discusses the most recent iteration of the fundamentally racist system that exists in the United States: mass incarceration. Just like their ancestors, many black Americans cannot vote and are denied rights, only this time it is justified by their criminality. Their fathers were kept under control through fear and the guise of state’s rights. Their father’s fathers were controlled and dehumanized by slavery.