Prep

• Lennie Irvin, ‘What Is “Academic” Writing?’, in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (Parlor Press). Keywords: analysis; argument; open writing assignment, the; synthesis; thesis; types of writing assignments (closed, semi-open, open)

Zoom Session

1. Overview
2. Keywords: Signifyin’
3. Q&A

For Next Time

• Murray S. Davis, ‘That’s Interesting! Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1971)

• Paul Gilroy, ‘It’s a Family Affair’, in Neal and Forman (2012). On ‘authenticity’ and the black diaspora. keywords: afrocentricity, Afrocentrism; authenticity (2012:95); black nationalism; creolisation (p. 97); διασπορά (diaspora); essentialism (see, e.g., p. 95); ethics of antiphony; familialisation of politics, the; ‘hood, the  (vs. the ghetto, p. 95); nationalism; race as family; trope