For my project I chose African American writers James McBride and Barbara Mellix, drawing from McBride’s The Color of Water and Mellix’s “From Outside, In”
I covered identity, race, writing, and the English language, focusing on how their works relate to these concepts. I focused heavily on both writers’ identities and how it factored in to their work.
Hey guys!
I chose to write about identity, specifically Hispanic/Latinx identity. I discussed how identity is a complex process that can confuse and pressure a lot of people, and liberate others. I talked about my own struggles with my Hispanic identity and the identities of other Hispanic/Latinx friends of mine/classmates here at UD.
I connected my ideas with the thoughts of Anzaldúa and realized that what she had to say about identity is still super pertinent to what’s going on today, and is extremely eye-opening too. I had a lot of fun interviewing people for this essay and actually learned a lot about Hispanic/Latinx culture and stereotypes while going online for articles and from talking with my friends.
Hope you guys enjoy, and learn a little something in the process!
Because I transfered to a school in a town I grew up in, I expected my transition to the University of Delaware to go smoothly. However, growing up in the same town which I now go to college did very little for my ease of transitioning. In this piece I discuss my expectations and realities of transfering to the University of Delaware. I discussed these experiences with students and locals, and share their accounts in this piece as well. To round out my piece, I compare my experiences to fictional thrillers for an entertainment twist. I hope you enjoy.
My Final Digitized Version on Medium.com: https://medium.com/@sjsowiak/odd-disconnects-an-account-of-a-college-transfer-junior-commuter-1f570ce4aed6
Elisa Gonzalez, “A Failed Essay on Privilege“, The New Yorker, 11/04/2019
I’d like you to think once again about the affordances of writing on the screen versus writing on the page. What changed when you moved your piece online—both in terms of style and substance, what you wanted to say and how you said it? What features of Medium did you find yourself “leveraging or resisting”?
Be ready to take us to two moments in your Medium essay that you are especially proud of. What would you most like to draw our attention to in your writing”?
Online extremism is an ugly symptom of the internet age. The internet has become the perfect environment for recruiting and indoctrinating new people into extreme and radical groups, and spreading their hateful rhetoric across the globe. Many terrorist attacks have been found to be fueled by radical content found online. Why and how do extremism and extremist groups work on the internet? I profiled three different movements and groups that have been functional online: ISIL, the White Supremacy/Alt-right movement, and Japanese online nationalists (netto-uyoku). I looked at their online behavior, their history, their demographics, and more to find connection and patterns within how they use the internet.
Click here for the whole paper (if you want more of a detailed understanding of each group)
In this piece I dive into and explore what it further means to be a sponsor of literacy both for your school and your program/sports team you are apart of. I connect Deborah Brandt’s piece about sponsors of literacy to UD Lacrosse players here at the university. I identify what it means to be a lacrosse player here and what we embody through our everyday lives as striving to be the best men we can be. I also explore other teams and what their sponsors of literacy can be seen as, as well as lacrosse players as a whole in our society. Here is the link to my medium post. https://medium.com/@rideaubr/student-athlete-ud-all-lacrosse-players-portray-many-literary-sponsor-by-brook-rideau-28f21ba2869f?sk=0aff84039e1b5a076723be2a7f4ac851
In this article I am acknowledging Bruce Lee’s influence on Black popular culture through Chinese martial arts & Culture as well as Western film by exploring his journey in becoming the symbol of liberation for ethnic pride and justice that he personifies so dynamically on film. I highlight key moments in his career that distinguish his perspective as well as the philosophies that design his morale. Also, by balancing his actions with historic features of the African American experience I unify them to demonstrate their reciprocity. https://medium.com/p/6a46529a390e
An affordance is a suggested use—something that an object, technology, or environment allows you to do readily or well.
The design and architecture of environments enable certain types of interaction to occur. Round tables with chairs make chatting with someone easier than classroom-style seating. Even though students can twist around and talk to the person behind them, a typical classroom is designed to encourage everyone to face the teacher. . . . Understanding the affordances of a particular technology or space is important because it sheds light on what people can leverage or resist in achieving their goals. For example, the affordances of a thick window allow people to see each other without being able to hear each other. To communicate in spite of the window, they may pantomime, hold up signs with written messages, or break the glass. The window’s affordances don’t predict how people will communicate, but they do shape the situation nonetheless.
danah boyd, “It’s Complicated” (Yale UP, 2013), pp. 10–11.
Please scan quickly through the following pieces as examples of writers trying to make thoughtful uses of the affordances of the web.
Use these texts to generate a list of at least five ways (more if you can) in which the affordances of the page and screen differ. (An easy example: Turn vs. scroll. You turn the pages of a book, but scroll through an online text.) Be ready to offer examples of the affordances you identify from the four Medium essays.
Please begin by reading silently through your group members’ essays (or through the sections they have marked). As you do, highlight the places in the text where the writer addresses these four issues:
After you’ve read and annotated your drafts, have a conversation about them. What advice can you offer each other about how to add to or clarify these four aspects of their writing?
E367: Writing and Diversity 