Some students from my senior seminar attended the symposium and wrote about their thoughts and observations. Here are Jesse‘s and Chris‘s blog posts. I am especially intrigued by Chris’s concluding thoughts: What is interesting about Rankine’s writing in Citizen is that it isn’t comprised of, or from one single perspective. Citizen is not a story of […]
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Symposium: “Cross-Disciplinary Conversations on Race and Racism” March 11, 2-5pm, 201 Pray Harrold Program Introduction: Robin Lucy on Rankine; Natasa Kovacevic on Bhabha Roundtable One: The Visual Citizen (2:10-2:55pm) Participants: Martha Jones (U of M), Toni Pressley-Sanon (EMU), Brendon Fay (EMU) Moderator: Christine Hume (EMU) Roundtable Two: Inter-Cultural Communication/Paradigms (3-3:50pm) Participants: Ana Ferreira […]
Today as a way to continue class discussion of Citizenship (as interrogated in Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric and Homi Bhabha’s The Locations of Culture), I want to begin with the following piece of visual art (is it a life installation?) by African-American artist Renee Green. What do you see?
“Poetry cannot be hurried; it is no respecter of deadlines. Yet the quantity of poems published each year is daunting and asks for speed. Sometimes, I’ll pick up a volume by someone I’ve never heard of, open it at random and be rooted to the spot. At other times, a collection by a known poet […]
Biography Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1963 and moved with her parents to the Bronx when she was seven years old. She holds a B.A. in English from Williams College and an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. She was the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College from 2006 – […]
“Friends” (a post from Elisabeth Daumer)
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