Reality Bites

By March 5th I'd like you to read Chapter "C' and "D". Choose one thing that Shields alludes to and investigate it. For example, in Chapter "A" Shields discusses "Delete City". If that grabbed my attention (which it does) I might investigate it (watch it, etc.). Then write a blog entry in which you discuss the role of this other work in Reality Hunger. How does it relate to Shields' objective?

And remember you have to wait until after midnight tonight or tomorrow morning. I think that´s why you haven´t been able to upload.

Class Number

I think in addition to a name you need a number.

The ID number is 6157435. The password rhetoric. If anything else should fail, we can work things out tomorrow.

Turning It In

Thursday please upload your research papers to turnitin.com. The password is rhetoric. Okay, not very original, but who wants to turn in a research paper that's not in this class?

Manifestos

Read the Futurist Manifesto and the first chapter of Reality Hunger. Compare their versions of manifestos on your blog. What is a manifesto based on these two documents?

Note: If you've already used the Cartagena Manifesto that is fine. I changed this because I thought it was easier and shorter. 

How to End a Paper

Here are the tips!

Investigative Papers

Please don't forget to bring in your papers (digital or print) this Wednesday.

Try interpreting this cartoon:

Race is clearly not universal. Many new immigrant groups bring new forms of viewing ethnic groups with them: the mung of Vietnam, the paisas of Colombia, and the garifuna of Honduras. Junot Diaz in his short story “How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)” reveals a new vision of ethnicity via a pidgin language spoken amongst his peers in the north eastern United States. A mix of Dominican Spanish, AAVE, and Standard English are used by the speaker in order to recreate a Dominican version of race.

While some other racial categories have existed, the English system of ethnic categorization was a dichotomy: white and black. As such, African-American literature has long polemicized the role of the “multatto”[1]. We find this nominalist issue in Diaz’s depiction of race. As the title reveals there are both white and black “girls”; however, there are others that do not fit the speaker’s Dominican more complex understanding of race. In the Dominican Republic in fact several racial categories exist, beyond the dichotomous “black-white” of the United States (Candelario).

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[1] See “Multatto” by Langston Hughes, originally co-authored with Zora Neale Hurston.

Sources

Don´t forget to bring in your sources to tomorrow´s Writers Workshop. We´ll begin our papers in class.