Civil Rights and the Body
Week 13: Bodies, Visible and Invisible
| Tues Nov 16 | Ken Gonzalez-Day, Erased Lynching Series (we will be looking at his work in class, but if you want a sense of what it’s like this is his website); Maria Anderson, “By removing victims from lynching photos, an artist emphasizes those erased from history“; Ken Gonzalez-Day, Introduction | Recovering the history and fact of lynching | |
| Thurs Nov 18 am | Mat Johnson, Incognegro Some useful resources if you aren’t used to thinking about comic books as a visual medium: Scott McCloud, “The Visual Magic of Comic Books“; Alex Abad-Santos, “How to Read a Comic Book“; Duke Writing Studio, “Writing About Comics and Graphic Novels“ | In section; select a panel or series of panels that were particularly important for thinking about lynching in the graphic novel. | Erasure and recovery of the past |
| Thurs Nov 18 pm | Mat Johnson, Incognegro (Cont.) and Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit“; Abel Meeropol (Lewis Allen), “Strange Fruit“; Bethany Collins, “Dixieland (1859-2001)”; Angela Davis, “Strange Fruit: Music and Social Consciousness“ Optional: Interview with Bethany Collins, artist of “Dixieland” | The aesthetics of representing violence |
