CCR751 – Dinerstein – Swinging The Machine
Dinerstein, Joel. Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars. Amherst: UMASS Press, 2003. Introduction: Bodies and Machines Dinerstein provides a framework for understanding his work in this first section. He notes that he is interested in exploring an “aesthetics of acceleration” – or a demonstration of the way that A.A. cultural forms constitute any American claim of being an “accelerated” culture. But what... Read More
CCR751 – Katie’s Cannon
Cannon, Katie Geneva. Katie’s Canon Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community. New York: Continuum International Group, 1997. Print. Katie Geneva Cannon Prelude / Chapter One : Surviving the Blight There is a lot of information in this section. I’ll start with a couple of key terms. Jungle Stance: the posture of knowing you’re in danger without having to be taught. Cannon claims this stance is natural in young A.A. children because of the pressures of... Read More
CCR751 – Week Two
And We Are Not Saved : The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice Derrick Bell This is a really interesting piece. I like how we get two views in the text on racial justice and black interpretations/plans for addressing said injustice. The fact that these are filtered through a somewhat gendered lens is also interesting/problematic. Structure: a. Chapter I – Chronicle of the Constitutional Contradiction – In this chronicle the heroine of sorts visits the Constitutional... Read More
CCR751
Week One Additional Readings Keith Gilyard, Introduction: Aspects of African American Rhetoric as a Field from African American Rhetorics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, Introduction: Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the African American Experience, from Let Nobody Turn Us Around Geneva Smitherman, “How I Got Ovuh: African World View and Afro-American Oral Tradition” from Talkin that Talk: Language, Culture, and Education... Read More
CCR 751
“Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy” Keith Gilyard Chapter One: Flight West Chapter One is something of a personal narrative that recounts how Gilyard first came to meet West on a flight from PSU to somewhere else. G. notes that West is especially useful for the field of composition when he states that It is profoundly within the purview of composition studies to address the concerns raised by West about educating a critical citizenry who... Read More
