APELC Class Notes
Objectives: APELCers 1) reviewed the requirements for text-processing, and 2) processed a personal essay.
Juniors and seniors, I reviewed with you a process I did over the weekend of a popular text to highlight expectations for the text-process you have due next class. I also made sure that you were all aware of the potential troubles the Miner text might give you. We completed the period talking over the Naylor text. We didn’t get to all of the questions I assigned, so you’re encouraged to review them on your own.
I’ve found these three resources interesting and relevant to our discussion today, and you might find them interesting as well.
- “Won’t You Please Be My Nigga: Double Standards with a Taboo Word”, from the online periodical StreetGangs.com;
- “Nigger and Caricatures”, an online exhibit at the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia;
- “Appropriating a Slur: Semantic Looping in the African-American Usage of Nigga” from the academic text M/C Journal.
Attend your readings for next class and be critical and thorough in your processes.
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