For two summers now, my Music and Race in the UK since WW2 course has been delayed owing to COVID. Perhaps the unrest in Europe will delay it again. No matter what happens, I have enjoyed watching the syllabus change with me and the times. I have settled on five key readings that have resonances… Continue reading music, race and postwar uk…or a syllabus becomes legible
Esther’s ”only luxury was idleness.” – Saidiya Hartman I almost did not do a blog entry for the last reading for my “Gender, Race and Urban Space” class. Sometimes there are no words to describe the hurdles faced by folk who meet at the intersection of every ugly thing believed to be true about womanhood… Continue reading how to give words
This week, I have an opportunity to think about how empire encounters race via the lived experience and music. What set this in motionL reading Hazel V. Carby’s Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands for my “Gender, Race and Urban Space” class, and my prep work for “Music and Race and the UK,” my… Continue reading imperial intimacies in two classes
I am still smiling. I attended the Dance Alabama Film Festival this evening at Tuscaloosa’s River Market where our local farmer’s market is held on the weekends. The students at the University of Alabama remind me again of the biggest joy of teaching: their energy. I especially enjoyed seeing tonight a piece titled “Elsewhere.” Kori… Continue reading musings
This is one of those rare weeks when what I am teaching in my intro-level course “American Civilization Since 1865” undergraduate class overlaps nicely with what is being discussed in my “Gender, Race and Urban Space” graduate class. In the former, I am addressing turn of the century reform efforts, hardening attitudes toward race and… Continue reading on judgement and self determination
Just returned home – and in a hurry so as to avoid the A-Day traffic – from the “Black/White Intimacies: Reimagining History, the South, and the Western Hemisphere” symposium in Hotel Capstone at the University of Alabama. It was so wonderful listening to scholars address the difficult issue of intimacy and race. The program is… Continue reading intimacies conference a success
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