Week 02: Friday, September 4: Thinking about Projects and Digital Methods
Due Before Class:
- If possible, register with Scalar. When you are registered, I can add you to the project.
- The author page I'd like you to create by the next class is fairly easy: once you are in our Scalar project, you will automatically have a Bio page. Just add your name to it and as we go through the semester, link all your contributions there.
- For the weekly reflection, focus on one aspect of the reading an think how you can create an open access resources (basically a digital resource not behind a paywall - the "projects to browse" section of our reading can give you ideas), lesson plan, or ideas for further research. If you have access to Scalar, start a new page and paste your response there. Then link it to your author page.
Everyone Watch
Dash.Daughters of the Dust.- Stream on Criterion Channel:
- Login Info: User: emnkugler@gmail.com PW: ENGL283
- This is about 2 hours long.
- If you cannot access it there, then use this DropBox link:https://www.dropbox.com/s/3y6nhidolwn6x0c/DAUGHTERS_OF_THE_DUST.m4v?dl=0
- If you are streaming it through DropBox, sometimes it stops early because of the internet connection. You can download this file to a computer and watch it.
Projects to Browse:
- Fry. "The Preservation of Favoured Traces." Fathom (Here are some of his other projects)
- Ibid. Fakebook. Fanthom.
- Early English Ballads Archive
- Early Caribbean Digital Archive
- Dawnland Voices: Journal and Book
- Occum Circle Project
- UC-HBCU Initiative
- Documenting the American South: DocSouth Collections
- Digital Transgender Archive
- Thompson. Baldwin's Paris
- Cordell. The Viral Texts Project: Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines
- Delmont. BlackQuitodian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers
- Grandjean. Network Visualizations: Mapping Shakespeare's Tragedies·
- Koh. Digitizing "Chinese Englishmen"
Choose 4 of the following short articles/essays to read
The categories bleed into each other, but these groups will help sort through.- Teaching and Creating in DH
- Classics, Medieval, and Early Modern Race
- Social Media
- FemTechNet, “Research Ethics for Social Media In the Classroom” and “Power and Control Wheel and Respect Wheel for Online Engagement” ·
- Ibid. “Understanding Social Media Violence.”
- Nakamura. “The Unwanted Labour of Social Media: Women of Color Call-Out Culture as Venture Community Management,”
- Losh. Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital University
- Losh. "Rapid Response. DIY Curricula from FemTechNet to Crowd-Sourced Syllabi" Applied Media Studies: An Edited Collection
- Parham. “Hashtag” MLA Commons
- Xiong, Cho, and Boatwright. “Hashtag activism and message frames among social movement organizations: Semantic network analysis and thematic analysis of Twitter during the #MeToo movement”
- Ferretti. Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and Information Resources. Decker Library. Maryland Institute of College of Art. (2016)
Additional Resources (obviously, optional)
- Sea Islands
- Gullah Heritage Trail Tours [Learn section is useful]
- Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission
- “Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor” National Park Service.
- Relatively Recent Attention to Dash's Film
- Phillips. “Beyoncé vs. Daughters of the Dust: How and American Indie Classic Inspired Lemonade.” British Film Institute. (13 November 2017).
- Interviews with Julie Dash after Lemonade:
- Martin All Things Considered (20 November 2016)
- Desta. Vanity Fair. (22 August 2016)
- Benbow. #LemonadeSyllabus: A Collection of Works Celebrating Black Womanhood. Issuu. (29 April 2016)
- #blkwomensyllabus. Twitter.
- On Canon, especially in British Literature
- Black. "Reconstructing the Canon." Harvard Political Review (25 April 2018)
- Waldman. "The Canon is Sexist, Racist, Colonialist, and Totally Gross. Yes, You Have to Read it Anyway." Slate (24 May 2016).
- Shukla. "Adichie, Kureishi, Hurston: What authors should be in the decolonized canon?" The Guardian (24 October 2017).
- Olufemi. "Postcolonial Writing is Not an Afterthought; it is British Literature" Varsity (21 June 2017)
- Classicism and White Supremacy
- Mackrandial. “The Aesthetics of Empire: Neoclassical Art and White Supremacy”
- Bond. “Whitewashing Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism and Color in the Ancient World”
- Video: Prof. Shelley Halley.” What’s Critical Race Feminist LIke Me Doing in a Field Like This?!”
- McCoskey. “Bad to the Bone. The Racist Application of DNA Science to Classical Antiquity”
- Roche. “Articulating language oppression: Colonialism, coloniality and the erasure of Tibet’s Minority languages”