AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Liminality, Louis Armstrong, Ethnography
27 Feb 2018
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Lecture 1 9/28: racial and ethnic minorities. Term is so multi-layered, our cultural lives are full of different metaphors to describe it: the asian as the always foreigner; the strange; the grotesque, w. e. b. Rst african american to receive a phd from harvard. The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. : double consciousness, double consciousness. A rethinking and reconstitution of majorities through minorities: metaphors of minoritiness. Realism, modernism, and postmodernism: close reading. Meaning in texts is not always self evident. Always anchor your thoughts in the language of the work. James baldwin (1924-87: novelist,essayist, social critic, preacher in his teens, then turned away toward writing, dual in uence art and religion, baldwin engaged with the structural impediments in and the nature of african. Class discussion: turn to the person next to you: the blues is the central theme and metaphor of the story.
