Reading Week

Over reading week, please read and prepare the following. Here is the blog post page

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

and

Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera

Also, watch this space as I will post guidelines for the podcast paper and the final project over the next couple of days.

 

And, post here if you would like to write a blog post about a Black History Month film at the  VIFF.

One response to “Reading Week

  1. Ngoc Vu

    May we request a blog page for VIFF responses?

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about this course

Focused principally on the 20th and 21st centuries, this course will study the legacies and implications of the massive migration, forced and otherwise, from the African continent to the Caribbean, Latin America, and North America. Topics will range from the creation of racial categories in the contexts of slavery and colonialism to the making of transnational and transracial families to the recent cultural politics of “blackness” with emphasis on the ways that different kinds of archives produce multiple and often conflicting narratives. Students will produce as well as consume history. In addition to scholarly monographs and articles, course material will include film, sound, and fiction. I’m very excited to be teaching this course, and looking forward to working with you all semester. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the website and read the syllabus. We will use this site extensively for announcements, postings, and virtual conversations. You should feel free to treat it as your own, and post links, images, videos, or anything else of interest to the class.

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