Chris Rock got a bit repetitive. I had to put the Oscars on mute every now and then to flip teach. This is as good a time as any to flip it, or get students in my my “Bebop to Hip Hop: Young America and Music” undergraduate class to start learning before class begins.… Continue reading an oscar pause
I’ll keep it brief as the Grammys are still on. I watched the first 90 or so minutes with students enrolled in my “Bebop to Hip Hop: Young America and Music” class (actually, some of them kept watching it until the end. All this after a two and a half hour class today. Way to… Continue reading alright counterpoint
It was a pleasure hearing University of Alabama alumna Dale Kennington discussing last night her approach to painting at an exhibit of her work at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in Tuscaloosa. Two weeks ago, I opened a talk on race and intimacy at the same facility by referencing my appreciation for how Kennington,… Continue reading painter’s work inspires
I look forward to today’s conversation with graduate students in my “Gender, Race and Urban Space” course. We will take up excerpts from W.E.B. DuBois’ 1899 study on African American life in Philadelphia, excerpts from St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton’s 1945 study on Chicago and Gilbert Osofsky’s 1968 essay on the… Continue reading mapping compexity in & outside classrooms
Today I stumbled upon a radio interview I did two weeks ago with a book club for a Cincinnati NPR affiliate. Save saying $2.2 million instead of $200K, I am pleased with how it went. Thank you again, Cherise Fisher for pushing me in 2001 to leave NYC for grad school and finding “real women” in… Continue reading thank you, Cincinnati’s NPR affiliate WVXU
Many have already had much to say about Beyonce’s latest video “Formation.” Amii McKendrick, a sorority sister and dear friend from Miami, said via Facebook last night that there “are many dissertations and symposiums in it” (she likes to lure me into conversations. I mostly stay quiet. This morning, she shared an impressive posting by… Continue reading on not fully formed thoughts and “Formation”
We are three weeks into the semester and things are progressing nicely with a new course, “Bebop to Hip Hop: Young America and Music.” I have enjoyed seeing the students mull over the topics they hope to pursue as a research project. Their task: writing a substantial research paper with a clear argument and archive… Continue reading postwar stories
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