Schedule:
Two classes a week. 1 hour and 40 minute class periods.
Week 1:
- READ: Homi K. Bhabha: The Commitment to Theory
WRITE: Reflection Sketch 1 Week 2:
- READ: Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth
Week 3:
- READ Robert Hayden: Middle Passage
Week 4:
- READ: Excerpts from Adam Hochschild King Leopold's Ghost
Week 5:
- WATCH IN CLASS: King Leopold's Ghost Documentary
WRITE: Activist Statment Week 6:
- READ: Heart of Darkness
“Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...” ~ Joeseph Conrad
Week 7:
- READ: Chinua Achebe: An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Week 8:
- READ: Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Week 9:
- WATCH: Apocolypse Now
Week 10:
- WRITE: Research Paper Proposal
- Sample Lesson Plan
Week 11:
- Research!
Week 12:
- WRITE: Research Paper
WRITE: Self Assesment Reflection 1 Week 13:
- WRITE: Remix Project Proposal
Week 14:
- WRITE: Remix Project
Week 15:
- WRITE: Self-Assessment Reflection 2
Week 16:
- WRITE: Reflection Sketch 2
IN CLASS: Present your Remix Project to the class. Q and A!
"The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or the diversity of cultures, but on the inscription and articulation of culture's hybridity. It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this Third Space, we may elude the politics of polarity and emerge as the others of our selves." ~ Homi Bhabha
"Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well." ~ Frantz Fanon
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history,
the dark ships move, the dark ships move,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer’s mouth;
plough through thrashing glister toward
fata morgana’s lucent melting shore,
weave toward New World littorals that are
mirage and myth and actual shore.
“Both in Africa and Europe, Leopold’s death had promised to mark the end of an era. Many Belgians felt relieved; at last they would be rid of the multiple embarrassments of his youthful mistress, his unseemly quarrels with his daughters, and the sheer nakedness of his greed. But it was soon clear that Leopold’s ghost would not vanish so easily. The king who had died while in possession of one of Europe’s largest fortunes had tried to take it with him.” ~ Adam Hochschild