Reading and Meeting Schedule

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Important Dates (write them down!):

Our Course:

March 12: Annotated Bibliography Midterm Due
March 16: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
May 9: Hip Hop Feminism Wikipedia Edits Due
May 16: Wikipedia Reflection Essay Due during Final Time

*Note: Your reading sheets are due on a rolling basis.*

SUNY-wide:

  • February 5 – April 2: Course Withdrawal Period A student may withdraw from a course that started at the beginning of the semester ($20 course withdrawal fee).
  • March 12: Mid-Point of Spring 2018 semester.
  • March 19 – March 23: Spring Break (no classes)
  • April 2: Last day for Course Withdrawal.
  • April 24-May 8: Student Evaluation of Instructor Period
  • May 7 Last day of classes for Spring 2018.

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Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Topic: Introductions and “Welcome to Arroyos!”
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Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Topic: Analysis of Hip Hop History
Reading Due:

  • Rose, Tricia. “A Style Nobody Can Deal With: Politics, Style, and the Postindustrial City in Hip Hop” in Microphone Friends: Youth Music & Youth Culture pages 71-85
  • Banks, Daniel. “Introduction: Hip Hop Theater’s Ethic of Inclusion” in Say Word! Voices Hip Hop Theatre pages 1-20
  • Chang, Jeff. “Furious Styles: The Evolution of Style in the Seven-Mile World” in Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation pages 109-126

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
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Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 SNOW, See Email!
Topic: Analysis of Hip Hop History
Reading Due:

  • Rivera, Raquel Z. “Hip Hop, Puerto Ricans, and Ethnoracial Identities in New York” pages 235-255
  • West, T. and J. Kalamka. “‘It’s All One:’ A Conversation between Juba Kalamka and Tim’m West” in Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop pages 198–208
  • Guevara, Nancy. “Women Writin’ Rappin’ Breakin’,” in Droppin Science pages 49-62

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
In Class: What’s Up In Hip Hop?
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Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Topic: Hip Hop as/is Performance
Reading Due:

  • Dimitriadis, Greg. “Introduction” in Performing Identity/Performing Culture: Hip Hop as Text, Pedagogy, and Lived Practice pages 1-14
  • Pabón-Colón, Jessica. “Writin’, Breakin’, Beatboxin’: Strategically Performing “Women” in Hip-Hop,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 43, no. 1 (Autumn 2017): 175-200

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
In Class: Gold Hoops What’s Up In Hip Hop? (and Textual Analysis)
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Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Topic: Hip Hop Feminism/Feminist Hip Hop
Reading Due:

  • Morgan, Joan. “Hip-Hop Feminist” in When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
  • Home Girls Make Some Noise! Selections: Read the “Introduction,” Section 1 intro by Rachel Raimist, and then choose any 2 readings from section 1
    • Note: Art pages are not considered “readings.”

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
In Class: What’s Up In Hip Hop? Four of a Kind
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Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Topic: Hip Hop Feminism/Feminist Hip Hop
Reading Due:

  • Home Girls Make Some Noise! Selections: Section 2 intro by Elaine Richardson and then choose any 3 readings from section 2

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
In Class: What’s Up In Hip Hop? by Soul Train  And What’s an Annotated Bibliography? Or…preparing for your midterm.
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**SNOWDAY**

Please proceed with the work on Wikipedia as outlined in my recent email and then outlined on our Wikipedia course page. We will not meet in person today, but you are still responsible for the work. I will be available via Twitter and will be doing the work along with you remotely. 

Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Topic: Hip Hop Feminism/Feminist Hip Hop
Reading Due:

  • Home Girls Make Some Noise! Selections: Section 3 intro by Aisha Durham and then choose any 3 readings from section 3

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Note: Midterm is Due Monday March 12th
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Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Topic: Hip Hop Feminism/Feminist Hip Hop
Reading Due:

  • Rivera-Velázquez, Celiany. “Brincando Bordes, Cuestionando El Poder: Cuban Las Krudas’ Migration Experience and Their Rearticulation of Sacred Kinships and Hip Hop Feminism” in Letras Femeninas pages 97–123
  • Navarro, Jenell. “Solarize-ing Native Hip-Hop: Native Feminist Land Ethics And Cultural Resistance” pages 101-118

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet

Wiki Schedule: “Content Gaps” on Wikipedia “Evaluating Articles and Sources”

In Class: What’s Up In Hip Hop? by Dream Team

If you are around the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is scheduled for Friday March 16th!

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Spring Break

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Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Topic: Hip Hop Feminism/Feminist Hip Hop
Reading Due:

  • The Crunk Feminist Collective. “Hip Hop Generation Feminism: Feminism All the Way Turned Up” pages 169-184

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Wiki Schedule: “Thinking About Sources and Plagiarism” on Wikipedia and Illustrating an Article

In Class: What’s Up in Hip Hop? BBD

We will also discuss our plan of attack to fix the two pages.
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Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Topic: De/Constructing Gender And Sexuality
Reading Due:

  • Johnson, Imani K. “From Blues Women to B-Girls Marginalized Femininities” in All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop pages 15-28
  • Morgan, Marcyliena. ”(Ph)eminists of the New School: Real Women, Tough Politics, and Female Science” in The Real Hiphop: Battling for Knowledge, Power, and Respect in the LA Underground pages 131-159
  • Shange, Savannah. “A King Named Nicki: Strategic Queerness and the Black FemmeCee” in All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop pages 29-45

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet

Don’t forget the Wiki schedule!

In Class:What’s Up in Hip Hop? Skittles

Continue plotting out plan for merges and edits, make notes in sandbox (be sure to have enough notations to be peer reviewed next week!).
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Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Topic: De/Constructing Gender And Sexuality
Reading Due:

  • Jeffries, Michael P. “From a Cool Complex to Complex Cool,” in Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip Hop pages 55-77
  • McFarland, Louis. “Multiracial Macho: Kemo the Blaxican’s Hip Hop Masculinity” in The Chican@ Hip Hop Nation: Politics of a New Millennial Mestizaje (2013) pages 157-174

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Wiki Schedule: “Thinking about Wikipedia,” Expanding Draft,” and “Peer Review”
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Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Topic: De/Constructing Gender And Sexuality
Reading Due:

  • Hernandez, Jillian. “Raunch Aesthetics as Queer Pedagogies in the Hip Hop of Yo Majesty and Shunda K” in All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop pages 88-106
  • Lamont Hill, Marc. “Scared Straight: Hip-Hop, Outing, and the Pedagogy of Queerness,” Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, pages 29-54

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
Wiki Schedule: Response to Peer Review; Moving our Work to Wikipedia—begin margining and adding sections

In Class:  Read de León, Aya. “Thieves in the Temple” in Plays From The Boom Box Galaxy: Theater From The Hip-Hop Generation pages 303-329 together.
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Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Topic: De/Constructing Gender And Sexuality
Reading Due:

  • Pabón-Colón, Jessica. “Introduction: “The Art of Getting Ovaries” in Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip Hop Diaspora
  • Kumpf, Terence. “From Queering to Trans*imagining: Sookee’s Trans*/Feminist Hip-Hop” pages 175-184

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet
In Class: PLOT EDITS TO WIKI PAGE TO ENSURE NO OVERLAP. Live in Color What’s Up In Hip Hop?
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Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Topic: De/Constructing Gender And Sexuality
Reading Due:

  • Pardue, Derek. “Mano/Mana: The Engendering of the Periferia” in Brazilian Hip Hoppers Speak From The Margins: We’s on Tape pages 121-158
  • Tiongson, Antonio T. “The Normative Boundaries of Filipinoness” in Filipinos Represent pages 65-88

Assignment Due: Reading Sheet

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018  

Final Exam Period: Wikipedia Show & Tell

10:15AM-12:15PM  

Assignment Due: Reflection Essay!

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