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CCR751 – Katie’s Cannon

Posted by justin on September 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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... Read More

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CCR601 – Week Three

Posted by justin on September 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Pough, Gwendolyn D. “’Each One, Pull One’ : Womanist Rhetoric and Black Feminist Pedagogy in the Writing Classroom.” Teaching Rhetorica: Theory, Pedagogy, Practice. Eds. Kate Ronald and Joy Ritchie. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2006. Executive Summary: In this piece, Pough discusses how Womanist ideology can inform Black Feminist Pedagogy in the writing classroom. Through an analysis of her own experience as a writing teacher using... Read More

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CCR751

Posted by justin on September 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

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: ... Read More

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New Music 8/31/2010

Hello again. I thought I’d share with you some of the new stuff I’ve come across this week. . . 1. Stornoway – Beachcomber’s Windowsill : Sharing their band name with a small city in the North of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, this Oxford based folk / pop outfit create soft songs with [...]

New Music – 8/16/ – 8/23 2010

1. Haruka Nakamura – Twilight : Nakamura is often referred to as a “composer” more than a “musician” . . . which is probably just as well. This album offers feathery, feeting piano/acoustic guitar pieces accompanied by soft female vocals and a host of clicks, pops, and other lo-fi ambient noise. The piano compositions (they’re [...]

New Music: 8/8 – 8/15

Here are a couple of new releases I’ve listened through this week. . . 1. Of Montreal – False Priest: I haven’t been a huge fan of much that Of Montreal has released since Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer? and this album is no different. Though there is some really nice glam/funk/soul stuff on [...]