Interrogating the African Diaspora
2006 International Graduate Summer Seminar
Performing African Diasporas
Syllabus
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INTRODUCTORY
WEEK, July 5-9: |
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Wednesday – July
5 |
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Students arrive |
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Thursday – July 6 |
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9:00 AM – 10:30 AM |
Supermarket shopping |
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10:30 AM – 12:30 PM |
Orientation and
Introductory session Welcoming
Statements: Dr. Raul Moncarz,
Vice-Provost, BBC Campus Dr. Joyce Peterson,
Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences |
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12:30 PM – 1:00 PM |
Campus Tour and
Photo IDs |
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2:30 PM – 5:00 PM |
Theorizing Diaspora:
An Overview Dr. Jean Muteba
Rahier, Florida International University |
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Required readings: Cohen, Robin 1997 Global Diasporas. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Gilroy, Paul 1994 Diaspora. Paragraph:
The Journal of Modern Critical Theory. 17(3):207-212. Safran, William 1991 Diasporas in Modern
Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return. Diaspora 1(1):83-99 |
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Friday – July 7 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Diaspora, Globalization, and Black
Subjectivities Dr. Percy Hintzen,
University of California, Berkeley |
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Required reading: Hintzen, Percy 2002 Diaspora, Globalization
and the Politics of Identity. Paper presented at the Diasporas Seminar,
National Center of Scientific Research, Poitiers, France. |
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2:00 PM – 5:00 PM |
Mapping Darktown: Black America as Imagined Community Dr. Felipe Smith,
Tulane University |
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Required reading: Smith, Felipe 2006 Mapping Darktown: Black America as
Imagined Community. |
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Saturday – July 8 |
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7:30 PM |
Dinner Party at Dr.
Rahier’s House |
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MODULE ONE, July
10-14: “Performance as Method” E. Patrick Johnson Northwestern University |
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Monday – July 10 |
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5:00 PM |
Opening Reception,
WUC 244B, Biscayne Bay Campus (Light food and
refreshments will be served) |
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6:30 PM |
Lecture, Wolfe
University Center, Room 155 Reimagining Diaspora: Performance and the Co-Production of Blackness Dr. E. Patrick
Johnson, Northwestern University |
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Tuesday, July 11 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Discussion of
selected texts by Dr. E. Patrick Johnson Academic One, Room
226 |
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Required readings: Gilroy, Paul 1994 Sounds Authentic:
Black Music, Ethnicity and the Challenge of a Changing Same. In Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in the
African Diaspora. Sidney Lemelle & Robin Kelley, eds.
Pp. 93-117. New York: Verso. 1995 To Be Real: The Dissident Forms of Black
Expressive Culture. In Let's Get It On: The Politics of
Black Performance. Catherine Ugwu, ed. Pp. 12-33. Seattle, WA: Bay Press;
Institute of Contemporary Arts. Madison, D. Soyini 1998 Performance, Personal Narratives, and
the Politics of Possibility. In The Future of Performance Studies:
Visions and Revisions. Sheron Dailey, ed.
Pp. 276-286. Annandale: National Communication Association. |
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Wednesday, July
12 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Critical
presentation of student papers Academic One, Room
226 |
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Student papers to be discussed this week: Anderson, Judy University of
Florida Reviving and
Reclaiming Black Identities in Argentina through Performance: Afro-Brazilians
in Buenos Aires McMillan, Uri Yale University Feminist Camp Nao Bustamante,
Coco Fosco, and Dirty Harriet Tubman Rapoo, Connie University of
California, Los Angeles Just Give Us the
Bones: Theatres of Remembering African Diasporic Bodies Codner, Paul Florida
International University The “Zoralogical”
Prototype of African Diaspora Womanism: Signifyin(g) Discourses of Race,
Class, Gender, and Elsewhere in Their
Eyes Were Watching God. |
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The following students will make a critical presentation of papers by
one of their colleagues: -Jung Ran Annachiara
will present Judy Anderson’s paper -Treva Lindsey will
present Uri McMillan’s paper -Marlo David Azikwe
will present Connie Rapoo’s paper -Natasha Himmelman
will present Paul Codner’s paper |
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Thursday, July 13 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Authors’ responses
to critical presentation of papers Academic One, Room
226 |
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The authors of the
papers presented critically the day before will respond, critically as well,
to the July 12 presentation of their papers. |
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5:00 PM |
Lecture, Academic
Two, Room 115 The Cultural Politics of Jamaican Dancehall
Music in South Florida Dr. Dean Wagstaffe,
Indian River Community College |
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Friday, July 14 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Instructor’s
comments on presentations and responses Academic One – Room
226 |
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Dr. Johnson will
comment about all aspects of the presentations, responses, and discussions
that took place during the week. |
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Sunday, July 16 |
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11:00 AM (Departure
from campus) |
Group Brunch Rusty Pelican
Restaurant, Key Biscayne |
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MODULE TWO, July
17-21: “Festivities and Celebrations: Aesthetics,
Poetics, and Politics” Carolyn Cooper University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica |
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Monday – July 17 |
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5:00 PM |
Depart Biscayne Bay
campus to South Beach for lecture |
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6:30 PM |
Lecture, The
Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach Welcome to Sunsplash: Reggae Tourism and the
Politics of Identity in Jamaica Dr. Carolyn Cooper,
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica |
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Tuesday, July 18 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Discussion of
selected texts by Dr. Carolyn Cooper Academic One, Room
226 |
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Required readings: Bettelheim, Judith 1988
Jonkonnu and Other Christmas Masquerades. In Caribbean Festival Arts. John Nunley and Judith Bettelheim,
eds. Pp. 39-83; 200-204. Seattle:
University of Washington Press. Cooper, Carolyn 1995 Me
Know No Law, Me Know No Sin: Transgressive Identities and the Voice of
Innocence: The Historical Context. In Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender, and the “Vulgar” Body of Jamaican Popular Culture. Pp. 19-36.
Durham: Duke University Press. Nettleford, Rex 1988
Implications for Caribbean Development In Caribbean Festival Arts. John Nunley and Judith Bettelheim,
eds. Pp. 183-197; 210. Seattle: University of Washington Press. Thomas,
Deborah 2004 Political Economies of Culture. In Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the
Politics of Culture in Jamaica. Pp.
59-91; 292-297. Durham: Duke
University Press. |
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Wednesday, July
19 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Critical
presentation of student papers Academic One, Room
226 |
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Student papers to be discussed this week: Himmelman, Natasha University of Cape
Town The Language(s) of
the Hip-Hop Nation: Interrogating the Subversive Power of Multi-Lingualism Kivenko, Sharon Harvard University Dancing Through
“Performance-Scapes:” Transnationalism and West African Dance in the African
Diaspora Lord, Cassandra University of
Toronto Mapping Diaspora in
Queer Celebrations: Imagining Home,
Nation and Belonging in Pride Parades and Pelau Masqueerade University of
California, Los Angeles Condoms and
Carnival: Finding Meaning in Inappropriate Laughter |
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The following students will make a critical presentation of papers by
one of their colleagues: -Sionne Rameah Neely
will present Natasha Himmelman’s paper -Ondra Thomas-Krouse
will present Sharon Kivenko’s paper -Erica Williams will
present Cassandra Lord’s paper -Maria McMath will
present Katherine Smith’s paper |
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4:00 PM – 6:00 PM |
Screening of
“Failing Haiti” Part of the Haitian
Summer Institute and the Summer Caribbean Studies program at FIU. Wolfe University
Theater, Biscayne Bay Campus |
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Thursday, July 20 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Authors’ responses
to critical presentation of papers Academic One, Room
226 |
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The authors of the
papers presented critically the day before will respond, critically as well,
to the July 19 presentation of their papers. |
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5:00 PM |
Lecture, Academic
Two, Room 115 Ethnic Cross-Dressing and the Fiesta del Gran
Poder in La Paz, Bolivia Dr. David Guss,
Tufts University |
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Friday, July 21 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Instructor’s
comments on presentations and responses Academic One – Room
226 |
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Dr. Cooper will
comment about all aspects of the presentations, responses, and discussions of
the week. |
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Saturday – July
22 |
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9:00 AM – 4:00 PM |
Black Tour of Miami Dr. Marvin Dunn,
Florida International University |
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MODULE THREE, July
24-28: “Visualizing Blackness: Corporeality,
Collectivity, and Positionalities” Jean Muteba Rahier Florida International University |
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Monday – July 24 |
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5:00 PM |
Depart Biscayne Bay
campus to South Beach for lecture |
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6:30 PM |
Lecture, The
Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach Racist Stereotypes and the Embodiment of
Blackness: Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador Dr. Jean Muteba
Rahier, Florida International University |
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Tuesday, July 25 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Discussion of
selected texts by Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier Academic One, Room
226 |
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Required readings: Hooks, Bell 2002 Representation of Whiteness in Black
Imagination. In White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of
Racism. Paula S. Rothenburg, ed. Pp.
19-24. New York: Worth Publishers. Poulson-Bryant,
Scott 2005 Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of
Black Men in America. New York: Double
Day. Stoler, Ann Laura 2000 Placing Race in the History of
Sexuality. In Race and the Education of Desire: Foucalt’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Pp. 19-54.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Young, Lola 1999 Racializing Femininity. In
Women’s Bodies: Discipline and Transgression.
Jane Arthurs and Jean Grimshaw, eds.
Pp. 67-90. |
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Wednesday, July
26 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Critical
presentation of student papers Academic One, Room
226 |
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Student papers to be discussed this week: David Azikwe, Marlo University of
Florida Magnificently
Physical: Big Mama, Performance, and the Reproduction of Black Mothering
Bodies. Noel, Samantha Duke University De Jamette in We:
Performativity and the Visual Politics of Gender in Contemporary Trinidad
Carnival Lindsey, Treva Duke University Bartmann,
Bananas, Battys, and Badoonka-Doonks: Re-Presenting Black Female Sexuality
and Contesting Subjectivity Williams, Erica Stanford University Tourism and the
Commodification of Black Culture and Black Bodies in Bahia, Brazil |
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The following students will make a critical presentation of papers by
one of their colleagues: -Paul Codner will
present Marlo David Azikwe’s paper -Connie Rapoo will
present Samantha Noel’s paper -Sharon Kivenko will
present Treva Lindsey’s paper -Uri McMillan will
present Erica Williams’ paper |
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Thursday, July 27 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Authors’ responses
to critical presentation of papers Academic One, Room
226 |
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The authors of the
papers presented critically the day before will respond, critically as well,
to the July 26 presentation of their papers. |
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5:00 PM |
Lecture, Academic Two,
Room 115 Hip Hop Honeys or
Video Hos?: An Examination of the Links Between Sexual Imagery and Sexual
Risk in Hip Hop Culture Dr. Dionne Stephens,
Florida International University |
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Friday, July 28 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Instructor’s
comments on presentations and responses Academic One – Room
226 |
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Dr. Rahier will
comment about all aspects of the presentations, responses, and discussions of
the week. |
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Sunday, July 30 |
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TBA |
Beach Outing! Haulover Beach,
North Miami Beach |
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MODULE FOUR, July
31- August 4: “Popular Culture: The Marketing of Blackness” May Joseph Pratt Institute |
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Monday – July 31 |
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5:00 PM |
Depart Biscayne Bay
campus to South Beach for lecture |
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6:30 PM |
Lecture, The
Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach Marketing Blackness May Joseph, Pratt
Institute |
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Tuesday, August 1 |
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9:00 AM – 12:30 PM |
Discussion of
selected texts by Dr. May Joseph Academic One, Room
226 |
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Required readings: duCille, Ann 1996
Toy Theory: Black Barbie and the Deep Play of Difference. In Skin Trade. Pp. 8-59. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Dyson, Michael Eric 2006 Come Hell or High
Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. Jackson, TN: Perseus Books
Group. (Chapters 1 and 9) Wallace, Michelle 1990 Modernism, Postmodernism and the Problem of the Visual in Afro-American Culture. In Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures. Russell Ferguson, ed. Pp. 364-378. New York: The New Museum of Contempo |