For Wednesday, 3/17

Prep

  • 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

Zoom Session

  1. Reminder: Semester Goals HW
  2. Review: Story Maps Proposal Outline, Story Maps
  3. Review: Bringing It (Back) to the Cipher
  4. Keywords: authenticity; creolisation; διασπορά (diaspora)
  5. Conclusion: What’s Interesting

For Next Time

  • Kembrew McLeod, ‘Authenticity Within Hip-Hop and Other Cultures Threatened With Assimilation’, in Forman and Neal (2012)