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Finger Points: Paper One Progress/Baraka and Lorde
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Paper One Progress/Baraka and Lorde. Blog 3: Paper One Progress/Baraka and Lorde. My first paper will focus on Amiri Baraka and Audre Lorde and how they fit the mold of the Black Aesthetic. Both are activists, writers, and poets. Their politics vary, but their impact on the Black Arts Movement is legendary. Baraka is also a professor, playwright, and publisher who founded the Black Arts Movement, which was a platform for black writers to express themselves.
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Finger Points: 10/01/2014 - 11/01/2014
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014. Paper One Progress/Baraka and Lorde. Blog 3: Paper One Progress/Baraka and Lorde. My first paper will focus on Amiri Baraka and Audre Lorde and how they fit the mold of the Black Aesthetic. Both are activists, writers, and poets. Their politics vary, but their impact on the Black Arts Movement is legendary. Baraka is also a professor, playwright, and publisher who founded the Black Arts Movement, which was a platform for black writers to express themselves.
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Finger Points: Baraka Epitomizes Black Arts Movement
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Baraka Epitomizes Black Arts Movement. In his essay, “Expressive Language,” Amiri Baraka drives home a remarkable yet refined message: words can either unite or divide different types of people. Baraka, an activist, playwright, poet, and founder of the Black Arts Movement, uses his words in different mediums to bolster the black aesthetic. But when a Rockefeller says, “I have money,” he means an entirely different thing. Same phrase, different meaning. Baraka provides anoth...
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Finger Points: Baldwin: Relevant Then and Now
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014. Baldwin: Relevant Then and Now. In his book “The Fire Next Time,” James Baldwin touches on several universal yet hot-button subjects—education, race, religion, police brutality, poverty—in crafting his narrative of the black community, a narrative that sadly remains entrenched in some parts of our society. For some, education has been a saving grace, lifting entire generations of family members out of poverty. Shamefully, there are still pockets of the black community where ...
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Finger Points: 09/01/2014 - 10/01/2014
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Baraka Epitomizes Black Arts Movement. In his essay, “Expressive Language,” Amiri Baraka drives home a remarkable yet refined message: words can either unite or divide different types of people. Baraka, an activist, playwright, poet, and founder of the Black Arts Movement, uses his words in different mediums to bolster the black aesthetic. But when a Rockefeller says, “I have money,” he means an entirely different thing. Same phrase, different meaning. Baraka provides anoth...
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Finger Points: Blog 8/Impact of Gender & Sexual Orientation
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Monday, November 17, 2014. Blog 8/Impact of Gender and Sexual Orientation. 8221; Where would the labels end? Does defining one’s self take away from the story that is being told? She notes that her white lesbian counterparts don’t have to face these issues. They can write about sexuality without having it layered with racial complexities. Hammonds also says that finding articles or text on black female sexuality, as a lesbian, can be challenging. These stories are different. Blog 7/Final Paper Progress.
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Finger Points: 08/01/2014 - 09/01/2014
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014. Baldwin: Relevant Then and Now. In his book “The Fire Next Time,” James Baldwin touches on several universal yet hot-button subjects—education, race, religion, police brutality, poverty—in crafting his narrative of the black community, a narrative that sadly remains entrenched in some parts of our society. For some, education has been a saving grace, lifting entire generations of family members out of poverty. Shamefully, there are still pockets of the black community where ...
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Finger Points: Blog 7/Final Paper Progress
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Monday, November 17, 2014. Blog 7/Final Paper Progress. Information for Final Paper. I have chosen Maya Angelou’s Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now,. Angelou wrote these essays, and other works, without apologizing for the work. In other words, she writes about black women, unflinchingly, as a way to document the black female narrative. Her works have been noted for being “aesthetically pleasing.” In Journey. Research and Sources, to date. Random House, Angelou’s publisher. I really like the point...
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Finger Points: 11/01/2014 - 12/01/2014
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Monday, November 17, 2014. Blog 8/Impact of Gender and Sexual Orientation. 8221; Where would the labels end? Does defining one’s self take away from the story that is being told? She notes that her white lesbian counterparts don’t have to face these issues. They can write about sexuality without having it layered with racial complexities. Hammonds also says that finding articles or text on black female sexuality, as a lesbian, can be challenging. These stories are different. Blog 7/Final Paper Progress.
