Dr. Kaila Story - Friday 9/27 in the Law Building, Room 110

Greetings, Class.


Dr. Kaila Story will be giving a lecture to a large group of students on Friday, September 27, 2013 at Noon. We will attend this lecture for our class session.   The lecture will be given in the Law Building Room 110.  




Be on time or early! :)





Kaila Story

Ph.D. in African American Studies and Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, Temple University, 2007.

Dr. Kaila Story is Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, with a joint appointment in the Department of Pan-African Studies. She holds the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.


Her research explores the intersections of race, class, and sexuality in identity performance, mass media, body politics, and the like. She is assessing how reality television posits Black and Female identity and reinforces past controlling images of Black women. Her other research interests are Gender Socialization, Transnational Sexualities, Black feminisms, and Transnational Feminisms. 



Dr. Story also spoke about some of the insights from bell hooks.  Here are some of bell hooks theories and cultural criticism.


bell hooks - cultural criticism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLMVqnyTo_0&list=PL5A99EF9376125764

Intersections and Overlap

Greetings.

In class we are discussing African Americans in Colonial America. Do you recognize any overlapping information or intersecting ideas from the novel A Mercy, "Chapter 1" from The African-American Odyssey, and Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation?

Please post your conclusions here.  If you worked with others, please include their names when discussing collective ideas. 

Dr. Hill

Defining African American Studies and Establishing Roles

Greetings. 

This past week focused on an introduction to African American Studies. 
Using information 
learned in our class community and your previous knowledge, please take a moment to define African American Studies.

Also take a moment to consider your role as a student and/or member of this community. Identify if you are an ally, a student, an advocate, a scholar, a documentarian, a poet, an artist, an activist, an educator and ect. 

Please post your thoughts in the comments section of this blog post. 

Dr. Hill

A Mercy by Toni Morrison: Chapter 1

Greetings, AAS 200.
We also read, reviewed and explored the first chapter of Toni Morrison's A Mercy.  The are several audio clips of the first chapters of A Mercy and an introduction of book on NPR's (National Public Radio)  website.  

Our class discussion considered four aspects of the reading. 

•  Who is the protagonist of the novel, inclusive of a character description, thoughts and actions?

•  What is her ancestry, nationality, ethnicity, cultural affiliations, and race?

•  List three interesting observations about the protagonist.

•  Consider how these observations confirm, challenge or complicate your previous conceptions of  and previous narratives concerning African Americans in the United States, particularly the colonial period. 

I enjoyed our brief discussion about how slavery may have impacted men and women differently. I also liked how many situated ideas of 'hope'. For example, mobility may have meant better opportunities for slaves.  Great job @ contributors!  

If you have further considerations about the reading or want to add to the discussion, please post.

Yours truly,
Dr. Hill

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Nikky Finney's 2001 National Book Award Acceptance Speech

Greetings, AAS 200,

In 2011, former University of Kentucky Professor and Poet, Nikky Finney won the National Book Award for Poetry. The title of her award winning book is Head Off & Split.

We watched a clip of her acceptance speech in class. Some in our classroom community were very interested in the content of the speech and how it framed our understandings of African American Studies.

If you have any additional considerations, comments or questions, please post them on our blog.  The link to Prof. Finney's acceptance speech is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2q15iiL79g

Todays Powerpoint (AAS 200 -1) can be found on the UK Blackboard site.

Enjoy your weekend!


Yours truly,

Dr. Hill


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