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Responding to Lambeth

Fastwrite

Please write a ¶ about a memory or object that holds beauty for you because of its “asymmetry and imperfection”. Then write another ¶ in which you relate your thoughts to Lambeth’s. Try to quote at least once from Lambeth’s piece. Copy and save your text.

Posting Your Response

1. Go to this site (https://e367fall2019.home.blog/). If you have accepted my invitation to contribute, you should see a button on the upper righthand corner that says +Write. (If you don’t see this, click on the My Sites button on the upper lefthand corner, and then click on Posts.) A text box should appear.
2. Paste your response into the text box. Check formatting (headings, italics, spacing, etc.).
3. Think of a good title for your piece. Type that into the Title Bar.
4. Choose Responses as your Category. Uncheck any other boxes.
5. Think of two or three Tags that will help identify your piece from the others posted. (You’ll thus want something more specific in addition to “Wabi Sabi” and “Lambeth”.)
6. Hit Publish. If there’s something you don’t like about your post, you can click on Edit, make changes, and Update.

This will be the process you’ll want to follow in posting your responses to readings for this course. Don’t worry. The steps quickly become routine.

Of Interest

• Jenna Wortham on “White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen“, NYT, 8/29/2019.
• Steele and Aronson “Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans” (1995). Full text available through e-journal search.
• Clance and Imes. “The Imposter Syndrome in High-Achieving Women” (1975).

To Do

1. Fri, 9/06, class: Read “Arts of the Contact Zone” by Mary Louise Pratt. This is a challenging but also rewarding piece. I’ll want to discuss what Pratt means by contact zone, autoethnography, and asymmetrical relations of power. I’ll also be interested in hearing your thoughts about Pratt’s attempts to connect the experiences of Guaman Poma with those of her young son.
2. Mon, 9/09, class: Read Arlie Hochschild’s “Empathy Maps”. I will lead our discussion.
3. Mon, 9/09, 4:00 pm: Group A posts responses to Babara Mellix’s “From Outside, In”.
4. Tues, 9/10, 4:00 pm: Everyone else reads Group A’s responses (along with Mellix, of course) and posts comments on at least two.
5. Wed, 9/11, class: We will use those responses and comments to structure our class discussion of Mellix.