Week One

Tuesday, August 21

• In-Class Reading, Discussion, Activities

Thursday, August 23

• Reading:
  • Baldwin. "How I Learned to Stop Hating Shakespeare"
  • DuBois. “Criteria for Negro Art”
  • Eliot. "Tradition and Individual Talent" (look through the pdf to find this essay).
  • Hughes. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
  • Hurston. "What White Publishers Won't Print" 

Week One

Tuesday

• Culler. Chapter 1 
• Stevens. Chapters 1-2and Glossary (
  • lookup: allegory, canon, mimesis, Neo-Platonism, and any other term you find useful
    • You should purchase your own copy of Stevens for the rest of the course.
• Plato. Excerpt from The Republic: “Allegory of the Cave”

Thursday

• Earhart. "Can Information be Unfettered? Race and the New Digital Humanities Canon"
• Gallon. "Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities"
• McPherson. "Why Are the Digital Humanities So White? or Thinking the Histories of Race and Computation"
• Rambsy and Rambsy. CulturalFront. 
   
  • Read at least one post to read in each at each of these links: 
    • metacanon
    • mappingDC
    • Baldwin
    • Hurston
  • Explore the sites metacanon.org and vidaweb.org

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