Unit 3 Slavery
Assignment to prepare for next Thursday:
TBD
Material
Chronicle
Put your class chronicle HERE
- Notes from Thursday 7th October
- Notes from Friday 10th of September - Zoom with Rosa
- Screenshots from the zoom-chat about narratives:
- FDTD (forcible drugging to deport)
- Portfolio_RGlas.pdf
- Analogue notes from Friday 10th of September (before 11:00) - Zoom with Rosa (by Savanna)
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!!!!!!!!!!!! HOMEWORK !!!!!!!!!
TEAMS > FILES > UNIT 2 > WORD FILE WITH INTERVIEW CONVERSATION (LECTURE)
^ LISTEN TO THAT ^
WORD FILE ABOUT STATE AND STATELESSNESS
^ READ THAT ^
TO DO:
- LISTEN THE LECTURE.
- READ THE TEXT.
- WRITE MINIMUM OF 2 QUESTIONS ON THISE SOURCES WITH YOUR GROUP (POSSIBLE: READ THE TEXT TOGETHER 'YOU DISCOVER MORE THROUGH THE EYES OF THE OTHER').
- After break from 11:00 - Zoom with Rosa and Golnar
(lots of back and forth confusing group forming)
About material:
In the Wake: On blackness and Being, Christina Sharpe: Is about citizenship, (racial) violence, and slavery as in their relation to displacement. The chapter we read looks at the space of the belly of slave ship and the ocean. Please read this one thoroughly. (16 pages)
Kindred, Octavia Butler: Fiction novel about embodied experiences and memories of slavery, told through time travel. This also relates to your fiction workshop today. This one is a lighter read. If you only take a brief look and skim through, is enough. *I have left highlights and notes for you as a guideline. Ignore or delete them if they are not helpful for you. Thank you and see you next week! X
• The hold
o Using language to convey meaning
o Questioning views through purposeful language
o Grounded in clear examples (mainly violence)
o Gender/sex
Woman, men, girls, boys
Normative ways of identifying
• Stripped away: who is human? Related to humanism and hierarchy
• The power of gender
• “grammatical gender falls away and new meaning proliferate”(76)
o The state of being held
Spatial/ mental state
Externalizing this power
About past/ present/ future timeline/ chronology
Physical place but also a reflection on the stance in where one belongs
• Generations (heritage)
• Is there worth? How much?
o Dying out?
o The life of a African decent person is not as privileged?
o Psychological war
Who stands for/ against & how do you recognize?
• Who holds the power?
• Where are the voices?
• How do you clearly express/ convey meaning?
• Micro-aggressions
o “black speaker explaining her’s”
Someone said “shut the fuck up”
o Teachers & students wrote their recollections of this event
o Managers held a discussion but felt more as an interrogation
• Where is the protocol?
o Seems more of a negotiation
o Where is the confrontation?
• The sense of being silenced. Why? Who? And by whom?
• Activist collectives
o WDKA SPIN
o WDKA SUX
• These situations are not visible till you are far into your studies.
• It is time to create heritage for justice