Agenda
- Intro: News Items (20). If you didn’t add a technology-related news item that came to mind during your reading/listening assignment, please add it now. This is a required part of your weekly assignments.
- Research & Cultural Competence Skills/Announcements (25)
- Discussion Sign-up now contains slideshow links
- Timed Exercise quote: “Note that the b in Black should be capitalized because referring to human as colors is “pejorative”.”
- Nell Irvin Painter (Washington Post): Why “White” should be capitalized, too
- Subtext in narrative: the said, the unsaid, the unsayable
- Commas inside quote marks
- Authorial voice in third person (and see TEDed video “First person vs. Second person vs. Third person – Rebekah Bergman“)
- D&T Reading, Watching, Listening
- Timed Exercise quote: “Note that the b in Black should be capitalized because referring to human as colors is “pejorative”.”
- Underground Railroad Walking Tour (65)
Assignment
- Read/listen, take notes, and be ready for in-class timed exercises & discussions on:
- The epigraph and Introduction of Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington, available in ePub and audio. Note that this book was written in 2006; much of its information is (sadly) still correct; but some of its terminology is no longer in keeping with the MLA and APA guidelines on inclusive language.
- “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin, available in epub and audiobook (NYU login required).
- With the audio: start in Part 3 at 35:38 and end at Part 4 at 55:37.
- What current technology issues come to mind from your reading? Please find a news item about a relevant technology issue, and add its URL to the 9/25 tab in D&T News Items 2024.