Announcements
Grace Lee Boggs wasn’t in “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” right? (See its searchable transcript)
Letterlocking as an anti-surveillance technology in the time of Beloved
New items in the D&T Reading/Listening/Watching list: PBS Asian Americans (Ep.1 discusses Chinese railroad workers during the time of Beloved), Grace Lee Boggs autobiography, links on linguistic justice
Coming up: International Pronouns Day. See NYU’s pronouns page, reminder that Prof’s pronouns are they/them, and: free pronoun buttons from the LGBTQ+ Center!
Agenda
- News (20)
- Timed Exercise (30)
- Discussion (30)
- Research notes, cultural competence and intersectionality (30)
- Reminder about citing books vs. essays/articles
- Reminder about punctuation inside quote marks
- Disputes on the industrial revolutions
- Be sure to distinguish between fictional stories and nonfictional essays (e.g. in Baldwin and Lorde)
Assignments
- Read/listen/watch, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on:
- The next final chapters of Sister Outsider: “Learning from the 60s,” “Eye to Eye,” and “Grenada Revisited.”
- In the audio, this is Part 6 and Part 7.
- These readings are relevant to world events today, as well as the topic of microaggressions, which we’ll cover later this semester.
- These readings may be relevant for folks applying postcolonial theory in their midterm articles. Other relevant keywords: neoliberalism, imperialism
- The next final chapters of Sister Outsider: “Learning from the 60s,” “Eye to Eye,” and “Grenada Revisited.”
- Benjamin: Race After Technology, up to page 11: “Preface,” “Everyday Coding,” “Move Slow,” and “Tailoring: Targeting”
- Continue to research and prepare your midterm article.
- AND: which current technology issues come to mind from your reading? Please find a news item about a relevant technology to the newest tab in D&T News Items 2023.