Section outline

  • Journals are due each week on Fridays. The first journal is due 9/17. 

    Readings listed under each date are due that day. Students should be prepared for a discussion on this date of readings during each class period.

    • Readings and Resources Folder
      Students must
      Mark as done

      • Ayi Kwei Armah - 2 Thousand Seasons
      • M. Jaqui Alexander - Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred - pgs. 287-300
      • Patrick Manning - The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture - pgs. preface-11
      • Brenda Dixon Gottschild - Digging the Africanist Presence in African American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts - Aesthetics - full article
      • Lela Aisha Jones - Diasporic Movement Practices: African/Afro/Black Embodied Translineages and Contemporary Migrations in Dance - pgs. 69-103


      OPTIONAL:

      • LUANA - What Makes That Black?: The African American Aesthetic in American Expressive Culture - pgs. 1-25 (Coming Soon)

    • Journals - DUE Fridays Assignment
      Students must
      Mark as done
      10 journals total are due over the semester. Only submit 1 journal. We do not require a journal for each course.

      5 journals can be alternative.
      • ie: audio/video/visual art/movement
      • accompanied by descriptions verbally or written


      Be sure to balance your reflection with each course in your journals over the semester.