Students

  1. Although some African Americans predominantly use Standard English, which linguists link closely with Midwestern middle - and upper-class whites, describe how African Americans might still employ “the language of black experience” when engaged in African American rhetoric.
  2. Explain how the theoretical readings, that is, the three selections from Asante, Smitherman, and Gilyard, that are appended to the end in the introduction enhance one another. Choose at least two readings and illustrate how they work together to explain what African American rhetoric is?
  3. The introduction lists six principles of African American rhetoric, explain why it is important to view these elements as inextricably linked in African American rhetorical practice.
  1. Dr. Eddie A. Glaude Jr. (2010) “African American Identity”.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRVeEt03wy8&feature=player_embedded
  2. African American History: Major Speeches, (1800-2017). Blackpast.org.
    www.blackpast.org/african-american-history-major-speeches
  3. African - American Oratory. ©2017. Questia.
    www.questia.com/library/communication/rhetoric-and-public-speaking/african-american-oratory
  4. Notable Speeches and Letters by African Americans, From Benjamin Banneker to Barack Obama. Infoplease. © 2000-2017 Sandbox Networks, Inc., publishing as Infoplease.
    www.infoplease.com/notable-speeches-and-letters-african-americans-benjamin-banneker-barack-obama/
  1. Chase, L., and S. Ellis. Perf. Shirley Ellis. (1964). “The Name Game.” Congress.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeF7jqf0GU4
  2. Chase, L., and S. Ellis. Perf. Shirley Ellis. (1965). “The Clapping Song.” Kapp.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyxXlSRq4Hw
  3. Brown, J., and A. Ellis. (1968). “Say It Loud, I’m Black and I’m Proud, Pts. 1 & 2.” King. Al.
    Part 1 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=M53Mb1KDZ0&list=PLF6A55BCA3C510A9E
    Part 2 – www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCNwufwgpng
  4. Holler, D. Perf. Jackie Moms Mabley. "Abraham, Martin & John." Playboy After Dark, April 20, 1970. Youtube, April 21, 21014. Comedienne. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mobZZRcrCHA
  5. Scott-Heron, G. (1971). "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Pieces of a man [CD]. Flying Dutchman.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnJFhuOWgXg
  6. Mayfield, C. Perf. Aretha Franklin. 1976. “Something He Can Feel.” Sparkle [CD]. Atlantic.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=iceTTjD8KfI
  7. Bates, K. L. Perf. Ray Charles (1988). "America the beautiful." Ray Charles anthology [CD], Rhino Records.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qq4oti60XY
  8. Lightnin' Rod. (1993). "Sport” and “Spoon.” Hustlers Convention. LP. Celluloid.
    Sport:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=itzy_oKniZc&list=PLQbTvJF4wIpyjer3Dr7GGNbOC8IKfVzPr
    Spoon:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=HngcKAOEfA&list=PLQbTvJF4wIpyjer3Dr7GGNbOC8IKfVzPr&index=2
  1. Lomax, A. (1998). Live humble, The buzzard lope, See aunt Dinah, & Hard times in Ol’
    Virginia. Southern Journey Vol. 13: Earliest Times [CD]. Cambridge, MA: Rounder Records Corp.
    www.discogs.com/Various-Southern-Journey-Volume-13-Earliest-Times-Georgia-Sea-Islands-Songs-For-Everyday-Living/release/1383988
  1. What can be discerned about African American rhetorical strategies and styles when considering the reading selections in which politics and religion cross paths?
  2. Identify and discuss how the practice of Islam has influenced the oratory of African Americans in the United States. How does it shift and shape the language, themes, or political views of those who practice it? Be sure to point to specific textual passages to support your position.
  3. In what way is Africa—as a spiritual concept, a geographical location, and/or as an Ancestral home—used as a rhetorical tool in this section? Explore the various ways Africa is centered in African American discourse to convey meaning through both explicit and implicit methods.
  4. In many of the reading selections, the writer makes use of vernacular speech expressions as well as more spiritually specific language. Is there is a sharp rhetorical distinction between the sacred and the secular? If so, delineate which selections make such a distinction and which do not. For those that do blend the sacred and the secular, discuss how vernacular forms of expression function to achieve the rhetorical aim of the text.
  5. Consider how the texts in this section reveal the import of class in the diversity of spiritual ethoi that emerge among Africans during and in the aftermath of the Middle Passage.
  6. What do these texts reveal about how folk spirituality and Western Christianity merge and diverge in the making of African American Christianity?
  7. Consider Gloria Akasha Hull’s essay “The Third Revolution: A New Spirituality Arises” and her argument toward a shift in the way African American women embrace and practice spirituality in the latter part of the twentieth century. Discuss and create a trajectory of African American women’s spiritual and religious thinking that leads up to this “third revolution” as evidenced by other selections by African American women in the text.
  1. King, Bernice A. (1963-present) “Eulogy for Coretta Scott King” Feb. 7, 2006. Atlanta, GA.
    www.transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/12/se.01.html
  2. Baker, Ron Jr. (19__- Present)
    www.facebook.com/comedianronbaker/
  3. “Jesus Was a Black Man”
    www.facebook.com/comedianronbaker/
  4. King, Martin Luther. “Eulogy for Martyred Children”
    www.mlkkpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_eulogy_for_the_martyred_children/
  5. Obama, President Barack. “Eulogy for State Senator Clementa Pinckney.” Victim of the Charleston Massacre. Charleston, SC. June 17, 2015.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9IGyidtfGI
  1. Common (1972-present) “G.O.D. (Gaining One’s Definition)” from the Album One Day It Will All Make Sense (1997)
    www.genius.com/Common-god-gaining-ones-definition-lyrics
  2. Bridges, Chris “Ludacris” (1976-present) “Freedom of Preach” (Featuring Bishop Eddie Long) from the Album Release Therapy (2006).
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikcfn5z3_GY
  1. What are some of the traditions of African American rhetorical practice that are presented in the selected works included in this section? In terms of rhetorical practices, what can be learned about, and gleaned from, a focus on African American language, literacy, and education?
  2. What cultural, intellectual, and rhetorical features make the selected texts distinctively African or African American?
  3. What roles, purposes, and function do community and community-building play in African and/or African American forms of education?
  4. In what ways does language, as a communicative form, influence the rhetorical practices of African and African American writers?
  5. What does it mean to see the world through an African American rhetorical perspective? How might this way of seeing serve as commentary on understandings of African and African American language, literacy, and education?
  6. What can be learned about identity, community, communal action, deliberation, and discourse from the selected texts? How might these identified lessons be used to theorize a rhetoric of community?
  7. What can be learned about the social, political, and educational complexities of Black life in White America from the writings of African American authors? How might these complexities contribute to a robust understanding of African American communicative practice as a communal and expressive form?
  1. Banks, A. J. “Funk, Fight, and Freedom.” 2015 CCCC Chair’s Address. Tampa, FL. March 19, 2015. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYt3swrnvwU
  2. Journet, D., Ball, C., & Trauman, R. (Eds.). (2012). The New Work of Composing. Logan,
    UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. Retrieved from www.ccdigitalpress.org/nwc
  3. Obama, Michelle. Tuskegee Commencement Speech. May 11, 2015. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JACTrIRjGos
  4. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. Retrieved from www.ccdigitalpress.org/stories
  1. In the introduction to the African American Political Rhetoric section, the section editors assert that African American political rhetoric is about Black presence. Explore the concept of presence as you engage and analyze the rhetoric that appears in both the print text and media list of this section.
  2. The section editors also assert that African American rhetoric is necessarily political. Discuss the connotation of this assertion using the variety of artifacts that appear in this section.
  3. The artifacts in the political rhetoric section, as is other sections, are comprised of texts from a variety of genres. What about the nature of political rhetoric allows for such a variety of representations in text?
  4. Using the concept of nommo as defined in the Smith and Gilyard pieces in Unit I, offer a discussion of nommo in the artifacts that appear in this section.
  5. When considering the variety of artifacts included in the print and media sections, how would you thematically characterize African American political rhetoric? Is there a recurring sentiment? If so, what social, political, economic, and legislative phenomenon have contributed to this sentiment?
  1. African American Registry. Comprehensive website with links to podcasts of speeches of historic and contemporary African American rhetors.
    www.aaregistry.org/podcasts/42
  2. Douglass, Frederick. “What to the Slave on the Fourth of July?” Commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Rochester, NY: Corinthian Hall. July 7, 1852.
    www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
  3. Terrell, Mary Church. “What it Means to be a Colored in the Capital of the U.S.” The Women’s Club. Washington, DC: October 10, 1906.
    www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/PDFFiles/Mary%20Church%20Terrell%20-%20Colored%20in%20the%20US.pdf
  4. Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. “We Wear the Mask.” The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence  Dunbar. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1913. (Original Publication 1895)
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=plECI8mov2E
  5. Bethune, Mary McLeod.“What Does Democracy Mean to Me?” America's Town Meeting of the Air, New York City: November 23, 1939.
    www.soundlearning.publicradio.org/subjects/history_civics/say_it_plain/mary_mcleod_bethune.shtml
  6. Randolph, A. Philip. The Call for the March on Washington. Policy Conference of the March on Washington. Detroit, MI: September 26, 1942.
    Original proposal: www.fdrlibrary.tumblr.com/post/59599151265/1941-plans-for-a-march-on-washington-a-precursor
  7. “Mass Meeting” flyer:
    www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/evo_history5.html
  8. “Why We Should March” flyer:
    www.memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mssmisc&fileName=ody/ody0808/ody0808page.db&recNum=0&itemLink=/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html@0808&linkText=9
  9. ---. Speech at the March on Washington. Washington, DC: August 28, 1963.
    (transcript)
    www.jacksonville.com/2013-08-20/story/philip-randolphs-1963-march-washington-speech
    (audio)
    www.openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/march-592217-the-march-begins
    4:43 – 12:09 *verify speech start and conclusion
  10. Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. “Speech on Civil Rights.” House of Representatives. Washington, DC: February 2, 1955.
      www.blackpast.org/1955-adam-clayton-powell-jr-speech-civil-rights
  11. Robeson, Paul. “You are the Un-Americans and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves.” Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (a dialogue). June 12, 1956. www.historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6440/
  12. Baker, Ella.  “Bigger than a Hamburger.” The Southern Patriot. (article based on address to SNCC at Shaw University, Raleigh, NC): 1960. http://www.crmvet.org/docs/sncc2.htm
  13. Lewis, John. “We Must Free Ourselves.” (unedited original version) March on Washington. Washington, DC: August 28, 1963
    Original Speech for 1963 (compare to audio delivery from A. Philip Randolph above)
    www.blackpast.org/1963-john-lewis-we-must-free-ourselves
  14. Stokely, Carmichael. Black Power Address at UC Berkeley: October 29, 1966.
    www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/stokelycarmichaelblackpower.html
  15. Baldwin, James. “Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?” Cambridge, MA: October 26, 1965.
    www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi-xdnWrdXWAhUr8IMKHU17CKAQtwIIKDAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVOCZOHQ7fCE&usg=AOvVaw15IWeLLfgC-Hwxesq2c8mV
    www.sam-network.org/video/has-the-american-dream-been-achieved-at-the-expense-of-the-american-negro
  16. Debate with William F. Buckley, Jr.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w
  17. X, Malcolm. “Oxford Union Debate.” Oxford, UK: December 3, 1964.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmrOOFJ12_I
  18. ---. “Interview at UC Berkeley.” Berkeley, CA: October 11, 1963.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0N4bs1Lt_k
  19. ---. “By Any Means Necessary.” New York, NY: June 28, 1964.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfMexftulsU
  20. King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Beak the Silence.” Riverside Church. New York: April 4, 1967. Beyond Vietnam
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qf6x9_MLD0
  21. ---. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” Memphis, TN: April 3, 1968.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixfwGLxRJU8
  22. 3-Minute excerpt for “Mountaintop”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=98k-pjN6nl0
  23. Ali, Muhammad.  “A Conversation with Muhammad Ali” with Bud Collins of the
    Boston Globe, THIRTEEN. PBS: 1968.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3r56hv3jCU
  24. ---. Clips on Vietnam War position.
    www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HeFMyrWlZ68
  25. ---. “A Conversation with Muhammad Ali” with Bud Collins of the Boston Globe.
    THIRTEEN. PBS: 1968.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3r56hv3jCU
  26. Chisholm, Shirley. Equal Rights of Women Address. House of Representatives. Washington, DC: May 21, 1969.
    www.library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/wlmpc_wlmms01015/
  27. Newton, Huey. Speech at Boston College. November 18, 1970.
    www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Huey_P_Newton/pdf/Huey.pdf
  28. Pryor, Richard. “Niggas vs. The Police.” That Niggas Crazy LP.Warner Brothers, 1975.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf3ZiSZPMYU
  29. Lorde, Audre. “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 25(1/2), Spring-Summer, 1997. (Originally published 1981)
    www.blackpast.org/1981-audre-lorde-uses-anger-women-responding-racism
  30. Marshall, Thurgood. “The Sword and the Robe.” Speech before the Second Circuit Judicial Conference. May 8, 1981.
    www.thurgoodmarshall.com/speeches/sword_article.htm
  31. Guinier, Lani. “Seeking A Conversation on Race.” Press Conference after Bill Clinton’s Withdrawn Nomination for Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department: June 4, 1993.
    www.blackpast.org/1993-lani-guinier-seeking-conversation-race
  32. ---.”The State of the Black Union.” Los Angeles, CA: February 27, 2009.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRSW7M6QETQ
  33. ---. “Closing Remarks: Money, Politics, and the Constitution.” New York, NY: March 27, 2010.
    www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/events/Money%20Politics%20%26%20the%20Constitution%20closing%20remarks.pdf
  34. Ford, Harold. Keynote Address. Democratic National Convention. Los Angeles, CA: 2000.
    http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/081600ford-text.html
  35. Carroll, Diahann. “Keeping Up the Good Fight: Winning the Crusade Against Cancer.” The World Summit against Cancer. Paris, France: 2001.
    www.blackpast.org/2001-diahann-carroll-keeping-good-fight-winning-crusade-against-cancer
  36. Cosby, Bill. The Pound Cake Speech, NAACP Gala commemorating Brown vs. the Board of Education. Constitution Hall. Washington, DC: May 17, 2004.
    (Transcript)
    www.rci.rutgers.edu/~schochet/101/Cosby_Speech.htm
    (Audio)
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gh3_e3mDQ8
  37. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. “The Message.” Sugar Hill Records: July 1, 1982.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY
  38. Public Enemy. Fight the Power. Motown: 1989.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk
  39. Sista Souljah “We Are at War” (7 ten minute Youtube videos)
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiUez0A6gJ0&index=1&list=PL7B7F2CBE178F4170
  40. ---. The Final Solution; Salvery’s Back in Effect. Epic Records: 1991.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcWgPEUT_x0
  41. ---. “The Hate that Hate Produced.” 360 Degrees of Power (CD). Epic Records: 1992.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=neNboHZ3paQ
  42. The Boondocks. “ ‘Never Tell White People the Truth.’ The Garden Party,” November 6, 2005.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dPIvuj-NGM
  43. Obama, Senator Barack. “A More Perfect Union.” (Presidential Race Speech)       Philadelphia: March18, 2008.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrp-v2tHaDo
  44. ---. “Remarks by the President at Hampton University Commencement” Hampton, VA: May 9, 2010.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hokV4oE7uSM
  45. ---. “Statement on the Situations in Northern Iraq and Ferguson, Missouri.” Edgartown, MA: August 14, 2014.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnVoqXf1axk
  46. Young Jeezy featuring Nas. “My President is Black.” The Recession (CD). Def Jam: 2008.
    (unedited)
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZAuY4ULNcE
    (edited)
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9sABRosdNg
  47. Williams, Saul. “Explain My Heart.” Volcanic Sunlight (CD). Sony Music: 2011.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_vUmvAXaWc
  48. Rice, Condoleezza. Address Republican National Convention. Tampa, FL: August 29, 2012.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDsYIsyKYs
  1. What devices have race women and black feminists used against being “silenced” to resist the depiction of their speech as marginal, divisive or incendiary?
  2. Map the development of black feminist rhetoric from the 19th -21st centuries to counter censorship and shaming; to what degree has this body of rhetoric employed spirituality or idealism to overcome marginalization?
  3. How does black feminist rhetoric implicitly and explicitly position capitalism, socialism and communism in its critiques of sexism/homophobia and racism/white supremacy?
  4. What definitional norms have been established in and by black feminist rhetoric to critique white racism, racial supremacy and colorism, have they been utilized or appropriated in the political rhetoric of other groups/movements?
  5. How are the erotic and the sexual displayed or cloistered in black feminist rhetoric and writing; what strategies are used to address fetishism?
  6. Cite black feminist rhetoric’s insights concerning multi-layered, pervasive violence and violation on state/structural, social, and intimate/personal arenas; how do these insights treat analytical and emotional intelligence?
  7. Tracing the arch of black feminist and race women rhetoric, where do intergenerational perspectives converge and diverge; are ideological diversity and elitism coherent and fixed formations through the decades/centuries?
  1. Reparations, Queen Mother Moore, Interview by Earl Pinto, Pt.s I, II.
    Part 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq0-kfzbMgw
    Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhq5cD3f3oI
  2. Barbara Jordan, Impeachment Speech of Richard Nixon, www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG6xMglSMdk
  3. Fannie Lou Hammer, 1964 MFPD Speech to the DNC
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TchoKJrvFQ
  4. Oral History Interview with Daisy Bates, October 11, 1976. Interview G-0009. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
    www.docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0009/menu.html
  5. Shirley Chisholm declares presidential bid, January 25, 1972.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjIzxFL98Hg

  6. Nina Simone, “Four Women,” Harlem Cultural Festival 1969
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9Bj1CXPH8
  7. Lorraine Hansberry, “The Black Revolution and the White Blacklash.” June 15, 1964, New York City.
    www.americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/blackspeech/lhansberry.html
  8. Who Will Keep Our Sisters?
    www.crunkfeministcollective.com/2014/03/08/who-will-keep-our-sisters-a-rant-about-the-incredibly-bad-arguments-in-defense-of-my-brothers-keeper/
  9. Black Girls Matter
    www.crunkfeministcollective.com/2014/04/14/blackgirls-matter/
  10. Toni Morrison, Charlie Rose Interview
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4vIGvKpT1c
  11. Dorothy Heights, Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir, Booknotes Interview August 3, 2003.
    www.booknotes.org/Watch/177169-1/Dorothy+Height.aspx
  12. Angela Davis, “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex,”
    www.colorlines.com/archives/1998/09/masked_racism_reflections_on_the_prison_industrial_complex.html
  13. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “We Should All be Feminists” TEDxEuston (2013)
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc
  14. Joy KMT, “Danger, Discrimination, Heartache and Triumph: Being a Black Mother”
    www.blackgirldangerous.org/2014/03/danger-discrimination-heartache-triumph-black-mother/
  15. Rhon Manigault-Bryant, #dangerous bodies #blackwomen #scifi at TEDxWilliams (2014)
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=trxGZMm4nBQ&feature=youtu.be
  16. Alice Walker, “Democratic Womanism”: Women Rising, Obama, and the 2012 Election, Democracy Now.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-hnyVRvpM 
  17. Black Issues Forum: Empowering Force of Feminist Teaching with Dr. Alexis Gumbs
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU-2Vm8EfXk
  18. Black Feminists Online/ Multimedia projects:
    www.brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/break-yourself/
  19. Black Feminist Lives
    www.blackfeminismlives.tumblr.com/
  20. Black Feminist Music Blog.
    www.blackfeministmusic.tumblr.com/
  1. What is the relationship among race, gender, sex and sexuality in the discourses of manhood? How do each of these intertwine in African American rhetoric?
  2. What similar themes, situations, and arguments about manhood do you recognize among the early works produced during slavery or at the turn of the 20th Century (and other earlier periods) and now?
  3. Describe how the relations among school, education and manhood has changed over time. Identify a how different works portray this relation during different periods.
  4. How have blacks tried to reveal their manhood to whites and how have they tried to reveal their manhood to other blacks? What are the differences and similarities in the appeals made to each racial group? What accounts for any differences and similarities?
  5. Explain how women rhetors, such as Larsen, Morrison, Brent, Hansberry, or Wallace represent and/or portray manhood. Compare these women’s representations of manhood to representations of manhood by men.
  1. Memphis Sanitation Workers Strick, 1968
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1xHuYyp4eI
  2. Hurt, Byron. 1998. I am a man: Black masculinity in america. God Bless the Child Productions, LLC. Newark, NJ. October 30. Film
    www.youtube.com/watch? v=nOQZqCGHctE
  3. Jones, Paster. 2012. Progressive men on black manhood - misconceptions. Youtube. Online.
    February 6. Video
    www.youtube.com/watch? v=vEDUFwqvr2Q. up300tv. 2012.
  4. I am a man: Black maculinity in america. Youtube. Online. August 6. Video:
    www.youtube.com/watch? v=ffyXUkw8A6E
  5. Akili, Yolo. 2013. The history of the black male superhero in comic books: An interview with dr. jonathan gayles. Huffpost BlackVoices. USA: The Huffington Post. January 24. Online:
    www.huffingtonpost.com/yolo-akili/the-history-of-the-black-_b_2529661.html
  6. Ziegler, Kortney R. 2013. On being a good black man. Huffpost BlackVoices. USA: The Huffington Post. June 11. Online
    www.huffingtonpost.com/kortney-ryan-ziegler-phd/on-being-a-good-black-man_b_3417580.html.t
  7. Dickerson, Jessica. 2014. Watch: ’afraid of dark’ documentary trailer explores why black men are vilified. Huffpost BlackVoices. USA: The Huffington Post. March 14. Online:
    www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/14/afraid-of-dark-trailer_n_4964027.html
  8. Norris, Christopher. 2014. Black boys define black manhood. TBO Inc. Philadelphia, PA. January 18. Video
    www.youtube.com/watch? v=H9_q1X1R7dM

I Am A Man

Afraid of the Dark Trailer

Black men on Masculinity

Progressive Men On Black Manhood

Black Boys Define Black Manhood

  1. What constitutes black quare rhetoric?
  2. What is the black quare archive and what is included inside of it? How might it differ from dominant archival structures?
  3. How does black quareness get articulated in multiple forms?
  4. How does the discourse of black homophobia also produce kernels of quareness?
  5. How do performances of “deviance” complicate the black archive generally?
  1. Interrogate the role that history and colonialism has played in constructing a Caribbean citizenry.
  2. Why does the plantation occupy such a key place in Caribbean theorists’ debates on Caribbean culture?
  3. How does a study of the Haitian revolution and its aftermath allow us to understand the condition of Haiti today?
  4. Is the idea of a Caribbean aesthetic essential for the articulation of a distinctive Caribbean culture?
  5. Discuss the evolution and agenda of Garveyism and account for its diasporic appeal.
  6. Critically evaluate the nexus between culture, agency and resistance as espoused in the anti-colonial writings of Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon.
  7. Why are gender and sexuality so omnipresent in discourses about Caribbean culture?
  8. What are the major perspectives that emerged about Caribbean culture as a result of the twentieth century anti-colonial movement?
  9. To what extent does the legacy of colonialism influence discourses of gender in the Caribbean?
  10. Discuss the impact of 20th century black consciousness, as expressed in Garveyism, black power and negritude on Caribbean societies.
  11. What is the relationship between colonialism, language and liberation in the thought of Kamau Brathwaite and Edouard Glissant?
  12. Can we discern a tradition of resistance to neo-colonialism in Caribbean thought?
  13. To what extent have the dynamics of race, ethnicity and class shaped Caribbean identities and their notions of belonging?
  1. Digital Library of the Caribbean
    www.dloc.com/
  2. Repeating Islands
    www.repeatingislands.com/
  3. 1804 CaribVoices: Pan-Caribbean Voices for Integration and Social Justice
    www.1804caribvoices.org/
  4. ARC Magazine: Art, Recognition, Culture
    www.arcthemagazine.com/arc/home/
  5. The Centre for Caribbean Thought – the UWI Mona
    www.myspot.mona.uwi.edu/cct/
  6. The Public Archive: History Beyond the Headlines
    www.thepublicarchive.com/
  7. Caribbean Philosophical Association
    www.caribphil.org/
  8. La Jiribilla: Revista de la Cultura Cubana
    www.lajiribilla.cu/
  9. AfroCuba Web
    www.afrocubaweb.com/
  10. Norman Girvan Website
    www.normangirvan.info/
  11. Creative Industries Exchange
    www.creativeindustriesexchange.com/
  12. Caribbean Studies Association
    www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/
  13. M. NourbeSe Philip reads "Discourse on the Logic of Language" from She Tries Her Tongue
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=424yF9eqBsE
  1. Bob Marley, “Redemption Song”. From the album Uprising, released 1980.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrY9eHkXTa4
  2. David Rudder, “Haiti”. From the album Haiti, released 1988.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PDuOxwAS3I
  3. Carlos Puebla, Hasta Siempre, Comandante.
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ynNRN_MxQ
  1. Based on your interpretation of technology, explain how the changing uses of technology have impacted African American rhetoric of /with technology?
  2. Theorists like Arthur Jafa, Rayvon Fouché, and Alexander Weheliye explore African American engagement with differing technologies. Are there any similarities in their theoretical approaches or analyses of technology? How do their approaches differ?
  3. Create an outline for a story in which Afrofuturistic principles like those articulated by Nalo Hopkinson or Alondra Nelson are used to address a contemporary racial challenge. How did you address race, culture, and identity? How did you transcend the contemporary challenge?
  4. Select three African American and three mainstream news publications, whether print or online. Compare their coverage of one or two issues of concern to the African American community. Did any of the news sources frame the issue in a way that identifies African American cultural perspectives? Did any of the news sources engage in an activist agenda?
  5. What role can academic institutions play in challenging the way society values African American contribution to and participation with technology? Identify three or four strategies.
  6. After listening to examples of black radio broadcasts from the 1950s and 60s, describe how some of the disc jockeys incorporated African American oral traditions? Do you think any of those traditions persist on the radio today? How has the sonic presence of the disc jockey changed?
  7. Is digital media better positioned than other mass communication technologies to help African Americans achieve longstanding goals of liberation, justice, and self-determination? Why or why not?
  1. Documenting Black Performance Art. Tumblr.
    www.documentingblackperformanceart.tumblr.com
  2. Alley Pat Videos. YouTube.
    www.youtube.com/user/AlleyPatMovie/videos
  3. “Race-ing Katrina”. (2005) NewBlackMan.
    www.newblackman.blogspot.com/2005/09/race-ing-katrina.html
  4. Ayo, D. (2005) “What Did She Just Say?”. Album. Itunes.
    www.itunes.apple.com/us/album/what-did-she-just-say/id276842085
  5. Flowers, A. (2012). On building armies. Retrieved from
    www.rootsblog.typepad.com/rootsblog/2012/04/on-building-armies.html
  6. Walton, Anthony. “Technology Vs. African Americans.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 1 Jan. 1999,
    www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/99jan/aftech.htm
  7. Black Women’s Rhetoric Project. Digital Classroom.
    www.blackwomenrhetproject.com/
  8. Baraka, Imamu Amiri. (1971). “Technology and Ethos” from Raise Rage Rays Raze: Essays Since 1965.
    www.marilynnance.com/titanic/baraka.html
  9. G.D. (2008). Black in America. Post-Bourgie.
    Retrieved from www.postbourgie.com/2008/07/24/black-in-america/
  1. Episodes 330 & 331: AFRS Jubilee (July 16, 1945), the all-Black variety show for WWII soldiers featuring Count Basie, Eddie Green, Hattie McDaniel, Nat King Cole, etc
  2. Episode 323 (parts 1 and 2): Silent race film by Oscar Micheaux in 1925 featuring Paul Robeson

Please find them here: www.itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bma-black-media-archive/id201665992?mt=2

  1. How is the Dogon or traditional African concept of Nommo at work in the lyricism of Hip-Hop emcees?
  2. Why is it important for anti-rap establishments to represent all elements of Hip-Hop as devoid of meaning, or incapable of meaning-making, despite every indication to the contrary?
  3. What kinds of things does Hip-Hop dance say, and how?
  4. How can the function of the “rhetor” or the dreaded “sophist” in academic discourse on ancient Greek rhetoric in the West be recast in terms of the “rapper” today, without Aryanism or Occidentalism framing our interpretations?
  5. How does rap, graffiti art and/or deejaying as well as sampling in Hip-Hop compel us to rethink academic studies of composition?
  6. What happens to the canonical definition of who or what is “articulate” as Hip-Hop artists of all kinds disrupt the canonical Western bourgeois (or white middle-class) conception of “articulate,” or “articulation,” in various ways?
  7. Why might some envision Hip-Hop as a new political-rhetorical discourse of Pan-Africanism and the “new humanism” once championed by classical anti-colonialists of old such as Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth?
  8. How is it useful to think of Hip-Hop as a “meta-language” if not an “anti-language” itself given the internationalism and multilingualism of Hip-Hop as a worldwide phenomenon?
  1. Davey D’s Hip-Hop Corner
    www.daveyd.com
  2. AllHipHop.com
    www.allhiphop.com
  3. Queen of the Ring:
    www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlffk08KDkG7jHD7SS5mB0Q7xO4uW0Pa9
  4. Hip Hop Nation
    www.twitter.com/HipHopNation
  5. Homohop…
    www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1A57C4962A56C29B
  6. Okayplayer
    www.okayplayer.com
  7. African Hip-Hop
    www.africanhiphop.com
  8. France Hip-Hop
    www.francehiphop.com
  9. The African Hip-Hop Blog
    www.africanhhb.com
  10. The Last B-Boy Breakdancing Battle at 5 Pointz
    www.untappedcities.com/2013/11/21/last-b-boy-breakdancing-battle-5-pointz-october-6-2013-photos/
  11. Planète Afrique
    www.planete-afrique.com/hip-hop/index.html
  12. The Music Snobs
    www.themusicsnobs.com
  13. Public Enemy, “Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_6js19eM
  14. Erykah Badu & Common, “Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip-Hop)”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNk3R23Twgw
  15. Nas f/Olu Dara, “Bridging the Gap”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9V0tdWSYLE
  16. Deep Dickollective
    www.youtube.com/channel/UCftdReiaC0A9UliqwEap7xA
  17. Nikki Giovanni, “Poem”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wAfWO-hoRY
  18. Common f/The Last Poets, “The Corner”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mnKNr2Tiq8
  19. Lil’ Kim, “Lighters Up”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8l_0N8lLWY
  20. KRS-One & Marley Marl, “Hip-Hop Lives”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=FadzGGJiLTg
  1. Afrika Bambaataa, “Don’t Stop…Planet Rock”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFUrXG4zu5U
  2. Erykah Badu, “The Healer”
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=XykIswFgLpU
  3. The Coup, “Laugh, Love, F**k”
    www.itunes.apple.com/us/album/pick-a-bigger-weapon/id272782166