Wednesday, April 1

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Black Cultural Studies

• Wednesday, April 1

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Today

• Introduction to the field of BCS
• Piney Ridge
• The Big Paper

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Black Cultural Studies

• History
• Theories
• Methods
• Areas of analysis
• Activist scholarship

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Praxis

• Raymond Williams praxis is practice informed by
  theory and alsotheory is informed by practice
• UWBs Cultural Studies Praxis Collective 1) How
  can the best traditions of critical cultural work
  generate creative and collaborative practices
  across communities? 2) How can scholars housed
  across a range of educational, social, and
  cultural institutions in the Pacific Northwest
  build sustainable pathways for this type of
  collaborative praxis? (http//depts.washington.ed
  u/uwch/projects_CSPC.htm)

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Setting the Scene for Piney Ridge

• Link to NY Times story on Thaxton, Virginia Race
  Riot in 1907
• Important datesCivil War 1861-65,
  Reconstruction 1865-77, Jim Crow 1878-1914
• Race riots and lynchings

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Setting the scene, cont.

• 1910 Census 10 of population is Black 89 of
  Black population lives in the South
• 1870-1910 19 million new American residents
  competition for jobs
• The Crisis begins in 1910 (W.E.B. DuBois, editor)
• 1910 marks the beginning of the Great Migration
• National Urban League begins in 1911
• 1915 Birth of a Nation (NAACP protest) in 1915
  KKK resurfaces in GA (from Reconstruction)
• 1917 NAACP Protest of 10,000 in NYC, 1919 The
  Red Summer (26 race riots between April and
  October)

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Small groups activity

• Acts
• main themes
• character development
• key stage direction
• Description
• dialogue, etc.

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Black Cultural Studies analysis of Piney Ridge?
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Essay Planning

• Brainstorming session
• Interviewing partners