Harlem Renaissance Multimedia Packet

As with the UTC Multimedia packages, there are several items in this package (which have been divided into 3 sections).  While there are a lot of items, I have tried to balance the amount, medium, and length. To assist you as you in organizing your time, where possible I highlight the number of pages and/or...

Welcome

Professor: Allison S. Curseen Room: Stokes Hall 103-S Time: TTh 9-10:15 am Email: curseen@bc.edu Office: Stokes Hall 441-S Office Hours: Th 2-4 or by appointment

EPAP PAPER JESSICA – BLACK ODYSSEY

I visited the Cambridge area on the evening of the 26th April to watch Black Odyssey in the Central Square Theatre. Directed by Benny Sato Ambush and written by Marcus Gardley, Black Odyssey repurposes Homer’s epic poem within the black expressive tradition, tracing the black experience within America from the  Middle Passage all the way...

Nat Turner in Jerusalem

On February 16th, I saw Nat Turner in Jersusalem at Hiberian Hall in Roxbury, MA, presented by the Actor’s Shakespeare Project.  Written by Nathan Alan Davis and directed by Benny Sato Ambush, the play tells the story of Nat Turner’s final night in prison before execution. Played by Brandon G. Green, Turner passes the night...

/peh-TO-lah/ (EPAP post)

May 1, 2019, 7:30-9pm Emerson Paramount Center, Robert J. Orchard Stage /peh-LO-tah/ a futbol framed freedom suite: Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project I saw /peh-TO-lah/ Wednesday night at the Emerson Paramount Orchard Stage. This “freedom suite” looks at black joy and freedom through the lens of soccer - “the official sport of this spinning...

Project Chick In 2 Jess

Letters from Negro Leaders to Gerrit Smith Henry Box Brown places to annotate but though my body has escaped the lash of the whip, my mind has groaned under tortures which I believe will never be related, because, language is inadequate to express them, but those know them who have them to endure, The whip,...

Project Check-In #2

Which text are you planning to annotate? Identify six places in the text where you're considering including an annotation? Describe the type/content for each of the potential annotations mentioned above. Briefly describe what kind of sources you are looking at (and/or intend to look at) in order to draft these annotations. How do your proposed...

Chalk & Cheese

I really enjoyed Zora Neale Hurston’s witty and accessible style. I spent a lot of time thinking about her piece “Art and Such” (- unrelated, but I liked reading it in its manuscript form) and what has changed since she wrote it in the 1930s. Although she writes that the 1930s are “as different from...

Harlem Renaissance – Florida Life

What is this play about? Considering the essay "The 'Pet Negro' System" alongside the play "Color Struck,"  what do we think Hurston might say about the relationship between jealousy and love? Why does John "got to go in" and "walk the cake"? What exactly is there between John and Effie?   Picking Up from Jess's...

“Fuego”: Practice, Performance, Rehearsal, Real

"Fuego," 2019 ALC Showdown Promo, Boston College: https://www.instagram.com/p/BvCdqhQhckk/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1garcnq26ubjn "P.A.T.U.," promo + full set the 2018 ALC Showdown, Boston College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbxVPprA3kY Also I will be attending the ALC Showdown, March 30, 2019.  I hope you're going as well. To purchase tickets, click here.

Project Check In 1- Jessica

Which text have you found most compelling and/or would like to examine further? I found the narrative of Henry Box Brown the most compelling text so far, particularly the debate surrounding its authorship. Such debates make me question the ways in which white authors were, to some extent, in control of black artifice and performance,...