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Discussion Question - Jedely Nunez Reyes

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LACSC 43423 Discussion Question Response

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Nawshin Sadiah, Close Reading Response (7)

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Nathan Vazquez - The Harder They Come Reflection - AFPRL23700

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LACS Discussion Question- Giselle Bennett

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Discussion Question 3

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Discussion Questions - ANSWER 1 by December 4 at Noon

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Discussion Questions - ANSWER 1 by December 4 at Noon

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1.     How does the film depict Ivan’s transformation from an aspiring singer to a rude boy? Identify one specific scene where your sympathy for him shifts, and explain what cinematic choices (music, framing, pacing) shape that shift.

2.     Choose one song featured in the film and analyze how it deepens the meaning of the scene it accompanies. How does the soundtrack function not just as background music but as social commentary on Jamaica in the 1970s?

3.     The film portrays Ivan becoming a folk hero through media circulation. How does the movie portray the relationship between violence and celebrity? What visual cues or editing choices highlight the spectacle of his rise?

4.     Pick a specific moment when the camera lingers on Kingston’s streets, markets, or communities. How does this sequence reveal the social, economic, or political realities shaping the characters’ lives? Why couldn’t the story be told the same way without these details?

5.     Consider the scenes involving the church and the pastor. How does the film critique institutional authority through these interactions? Point to a moment when the pastor’s behavior or dialogue reveals larger systemic power dynamics at play.

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Week 13

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Week 13 Response - Dancehall A Reader on Jamaican Music Nathan Vazquez

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LACS Week 13 Reading Response- Giselle Bennett

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Nawshin Sadiah, Close Reading Response (6)

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Week 12 Reading (accidentally titled it 11)

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Week 12

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LACS Week 12 Reading Response- Giselle Bennett

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Week 12 Reflection - AFRPL23700 - Nathan Vazquez

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Nawshin Sadiah, Close Reading Response (5)

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Allison Lopez

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Allison Lopez Homework

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Discussion Questions: Get Millie Black, Marlon James, and Transgender Lives in Jamaica

1. In Get Millie Black, how does the show complicate our understanding of violence and protection in Jamaican society? How do scenes depicting queer and trans communities—particularly those living in the gully—challenge conventional narratives about crime, morality, and survival?

2. Considering Marlon James’ previous novels (A Brief History of Seven Killings, Book of Night Women, how does Get Millie Black continue or depart from his literary exploration of gender, sexuality, and national identity? What does the move to television allow him to express differently about Jamaica?

3. What does Get Millie Black reveal about the current state of transgender rights and visibility in Jamaica? How do the characters’ lived experiences mirror or resist real-world struggles faced by Jamaica’s trans and queer communities?

4. The “gully queens” occupy a space that is both literally and socially underground. How does the show’s portrayal of the gully serve as a metaphor for visibility, belonging, and exclusion in Jamaican society? How does space itself become political?

5. Both Marlon James’s work and Get Millie Black resist easy categorization—blending detective fiction, political critique, and queer narrative. How might this formal “codeswitching” be read as a strategy of survival and critique, especially for communities that have long been rendered illegible or unsafe within dominant heteronormative Jamaican culture?

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Week 11

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Week 9

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African Caribbean Literature - Nathan Vazquez - Get Millie Black

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Week 11

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LACS Week 11 Reading Response- Giselle Bennett

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Nawshin Sadiah, Close Reading Response (4)

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Ashley Pierre - Week 11 Close Reading Response

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Ashley Pierre - Week 11 Close Reading Response

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Week 11 Response

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Ashley Pierre - Week 10 Close Reading (Get Millie Black)

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Week 9 Close Reading (I apologize for the late submission)

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Ashley Pierre - Week 9 Close Reading Response

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Submit write up by email before November 20 about your experience. Take a picture of one painting or sculpture that you find moving.

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Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream | MoMA

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Exhibition. Nov 10, 2025–Apr 11, 2026. Wifredo Lam’s paintings expanded the horizons of modernism by creating a meaningful space for the beauty and depth of Black diasporic culture. Born in Cuba at the start of the 20th century, Lam forged his political convictions and commitment to modern painting in war-torn Europe in the 1930s. His exile and return to the Caribbean after 18 years abroad drove him to radically reimagine his artistic project through Afro-Caribbean histories. For Lam, who was of African and Chinese descent, crafting his vivid new imaginary was more than a means of self-reflection. He famously declared that his art was an “act of decolonization.” His formal experiments, his transforming figures and landscapes, and his affinity for poetry and collaboration allowed him to disrupt and overcome the colonial structures he encountered in art and in life. “I knew I was running the risk of not being understood either by the man in the street or by the others,” Lam said, “but a true picture has the power to set the imagination to work, even if it takes time.” Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream is the first retrospective in the United States to feature the full trajectory of Lam’s remarkable vision, inviting us to see the world anew.

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Diwali Riddim (XM 24) by Steven "Lenky" Marsden

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Jamaica Chinese History - Reggae Soundsystems - Peer Reviewed article by Prof. Goffe

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Jamaica Chinese History - Reggae Soundsystems - Peer Reviewed article by Prof. Goffe

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Sean Paul - Get Busy/Like Glue (Official Video)

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Young and Gay: Jamaica's Gully Queens (Full Length)

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African Caribbean Literature - Week 9 Reflection

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Nawshin Sadiah, Close Reading Response (3)

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LACS Week 9 Reading Response- Giselle Bennett (1)

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Buju Banton - Untold Stories (Official Music Video)

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The Pagoda - Part One - Discussion Questions

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The Pagoda - Part One - Discussion Questions

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1. Patricia Powell’s novel The Pagoda places the reader in rural Jamaica and centers on a Chinese character named Mr. Lowe. Describe how the epistolary form opens his interior world to the reader?

2. When and why did the first Chinese laborers arrive in Jamaica? How was the institution of Chinese indentureship in the Caribbean different than chattel slavery?

3. Do you view you view The Pagoda as a trans novel or not? Considering that it was written in the late 1990s, discuss pronouns for the main character and how Lowe negotiates his sexual identity.

4. How do you define “passing” and “crossing” as regards the performances of gender? Lowe describes the “stench of puberty.” Discuss what shifts for the character at this age in Kwangtung.

5. The Pagoda’s title suggests the centrality of architecture and building for community and also archives. Explore the Jamaican Chinese magazine by the same name. What do you notice about how the community represents itself to itself?

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Start working on Op-Ed # 2

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Week 7 Reflection AFPRL 23700 Nathan Vazquez