Announcements

• This week is Banned Books Week. All of our literary authors have been banned in the US at some point!

Agenda

• Intro: News Items (20). Reminder that this is a required part of your assignment for each session.
• Timed Exercise (25) in Brightspace
  • Before you begin: identify the “disruptive” technologies in “Sonny’s Blues.”
• Discussion (20)
• Research & Cultural Competence Skills
  • 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
  • Equity vs Equality
  • 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
  • Cultural Competence Checklist
• If there’s time: Icebreaker (35)

Assignment

Due Monday

• “Notes of a Native Son” by James Baldwin: ePub, PDF or audio (NYU login required)
• Mari Matsuda: Beside My Sister, Facing the Enemy: Legal Theory Out of Coalition (Stanford Law Review). Focus on the concepts of multicultural coalition, anti-subordination, and the introduction of intersectionality. Don’t worry too much about legal terms.

Due next Wednesday

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. This short book is available in the Class Books folder.
• Reading about cars and cities:
  • America on the Move (Smithsonian American History). These are quick reads. Focus on
    • The Connected City (NYC in the 1920s)
    • City and Suburb (Chicago in the 1950s).
  • America’s Assembly Line, Chapter 7: Discontent. Read the entire chapter, but pay special attention starting at my comment on page 177.
  • Crenshaw: Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait (Washington Post). How is this article related to cars and/or cities?