Before class:
Read: Locke, Alain. “Enter the New Negro,” Survey Graphic (March, 1925). National Humanities Center e-publication
Read: Renée Ater, “Making History: Meta Warwick Fuller’s ‘Ethiopia,’” American Art 17, No. 3 (Autumn, 2003): 12-31. (.pdf)
Read: Amy Kirschke, “The Burden of Black Womanhood: Aaron Douglas and the ‘Apogée of Beauty’” American Studies (March, 2008), 97-106. (.pdf)
Group B: Submit a journal entry on these assignments no later than 48 hours before class begins.
5. For those class meetings for which you are assigned an assignment response, you must post a comment of app. 300-500 words no later than 48 hours before class begins. Responses posted after the deadline will lose credit.
Your post should aim to answer at least some of the following questions (i.e., you don’t have to address all of them):
1) What are the topics of the assignments? How do they relate to each other?
2) Do the assignments provide further insight into any issues we previously
discussed in class?
3) What sorts of evidence do the authors/sites use to construct their arguments?
4) Is there anything that seems new or noteworthy to you about what the author presents?
5) What is your overall assessment of the assignments? How convincing are they? Do you have any strong responses to one or more of them?
6) Did one or more of the assignments help you understand African American art and or history in a new light?
Grading Rubric for Assignment Responses
Criteria
100%
92%
85%
75%
65%
0
Journal Entry contains both analysis and reflection.
Course assignments are clearly addressed, and if sharing new information, the source is credible and a reference is included.
Journal Entry is substantial, but not overly-long (approximately 300-500 words).
Writing is clear and easy to understand.
Entry was submitted on time.
