Post-Zora Interventions: Art, Activism and Anthropology
ANTH 231
Spring 2019
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Inspired by the pedagogies of Paolo Freire, this experimental course situates the pioneer ethnographer, novelist, and playwright Zora Neale Hurston at the avant-garde of innovative approaches in anthropology. In addition to exploring Hurston's textual and performative oeuvre within and outside of the discipline, we will also examine anthropologists who turn to the expressive arts to make their works as well as artists who deploy ethnographic methods and are inspired by anthropology as their subject. Paying particular attention to black feminists projects produced at the intersections of art and activism, we aim to consider the broader context within which these occur. In the process, we will critically question the aesthetics of politics and politics of aesthetics as we contemplate the imperatives and impulses of those who challenge and subvert conventional ethnographic and creative practices to make a case for post-Zora interventions in the "urgency of now" of these times. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ANTH) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Bell Hooks, 1990. YEARNING: RACE, GENDER AND CULTURAL POLITICS
Zora Neale Hurston, SELECTED WRITINGS and BARRACOON (2018)
Robin D G Kelley, 2002. FREEDOM DREAMS: THE BLACK RADICAL IMAGINATION
D. Soyini Madison, 2012. ACTS OF ACTIVISM: HUMAN RIGHTS AS RADICAL PERFORMANCE
M NourbeSe Phillip, 1997. A GENEALOGY OF RESISTANCE AND OTHER ESSAYS
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Examinations and Assignments:
Critical responses, in-class presentations, midterm and a final research project |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Students must attend the first day of class or will be disenrolled. |
| Instructor(s): Ulysse,Gina Athena Times: ..T.R.. 10:20AM-11:40AM; Location: FISK305; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 30 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 6 | FR: 4 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 2 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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