West Africa and the Diaspora by ProfPewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo Theorizing Blackness en-us 2017-04-28 10:52:39 UTC 2025-02-19 18:42:55 UTC hello@padlet.com W.E.B. DuBois jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/712697713 A Short Bio]]> 2020-09-01 17:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/712697713 "What Does it mean to be a problem?" jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/712701310 What is DuBois getting at when he asks this question?]]> 2020-09-01 17:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/712701310 Double Consciousness jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/712725688 According to DuBois, what is Double Consciousness?  ]]> 2020-09-01 17:59:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/712725688 Africa's Place in the Diaspora jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/719134902 According to Stuart Hall why is having an imaginative African identity problematic?  In what ways might it be useful?]]> 2020-09-03 18:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/719134902 Atlantic Aporia jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/719293555 What evidence does Piot use to demonstrate the ways that Africa is also being remade by processes, and products of the African Diaspora?]]> 2020-09-03 19:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/719293555 Dissecting Diaspora in the News: Adele's Bantu Knots jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/719329507  Let's Recontextualize Adele's hairdo in light of what we now know of the Black Diaspora, West Africa and Cultural Identity...Charles Piot writes...
"No idle symbol, then, the Kabre head is site of multiple inscriptions, both personal and cultural. Trading on this set of associations, these traveling teens, recent initiates both, are playing with and signifyin(g) on the head, at once marking their liminal status as travelers and drawing attention to the mystical powers that they hope will protect them on their journey, while at the same time proclaiming their identity as members of global teen culture and in the process differentiating themselves from the local."]]> 2020-09-03 19:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/719329507 Unesco Map of the Slave Route jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/719416779 2020-09-03 20:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/719416779 Black Atlantic Sound Track jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/728373591   ]]> 2020-09-08 17:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/728373591 Akon City estarasandrew https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/736519053 Akon Unveils Plans For Utopian 'Akon City' In Senegal

]]> 2020-09-10 18:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/736519053 estarasandrew https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/736807655 2020-09-10 19:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/736807655 ddolidze97 https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/736828540 2020-09-10 19:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/736828540 Possible Questions ddolidze97 https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/736834094 What effects did Musa's wealth and ambition have on the world beyond Mali's borders?
How did Musa utilize Islam to secure political dominion?]]> 2020-09-10 19:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/736834094 Debating the volume and impact of Trans-Atlantic Slavery jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/756275989 What is J.D. Fages' argument and what key pieces of evidence does his analysis rely on? ]]> 2020-09-17 17:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/756275989 Debating the volume and impact of Trans-Atlantic Slavery jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/756283547 What is Walter Rodney's argument and what key pieces of evidence does his analysis rely on?]]> 2020-09-17 17:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/756283547 Dissecting Diaspora in the News: Dr. Jessica Krug's "Blackface" jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/756293668 Read the New Yorker piece on the African History professor who pretended to represent various Black people from throughout the African Diaspora and see how this author interprets this as cultural appropriation. ]]> 2020-09-17 17:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/756293668 Dissecting Diaspora in the News: Mayan Slave Ship Discovery jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/766944270 Watch this piece about the discovery of the Mayan slave ship and consider how this discovery complicates or expands our understanding of slavery in the Americas. ]]> 2020-09-22 05:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/766944270 Slavery and the Slave Trades Today jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/771028907 Historic Slave Ports and how they are used today.]]> 2020-09-23 06:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/771028907 Slavery and the Slave Trades Today jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/771069635 A day by day Log of life onboard a slave ship.]]> 2020-09-23 06:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/771069635 Week 5 Ch.4 Discussion https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/774490737 1. How did newspapers at the time respond to uprisings onboard slave ships?
2. Do you think that the extreme methods that were intended to break the spirit of slaves and keep them from rebelling worked? or do you think it had the adverse effect of pushing slaves to the point of rebelling?]]> 2020-09-24 03:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/774490737 Week 5 Ch.5 Discussion https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/774529640 1. What were some of the methods that slave ships would use to keep slaves from committing suicide?
2. What were some of the purposes of drums and songs on slave ships?]]> 2020-09-24 03:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/774529640 https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/774539159 2020-09-24 04:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/774539159 Diaspora In the News jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/788833054 As part of renewed calls for racial justice and an end to all forms of racism in American culture the parent company who makes Uncle Ben's had decided that it is time to change its name. ]]> 2020-09-29 17:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/788833054 Gulla Geeche Culture jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/789484485 Map of Sea Islands, U.S. ]]> 2020-09-29 19:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/789484485 Contexts of African Cultural Retention ryannchapmann https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/795239643 An African American discusses his experiences and theories about African cultural retention in the Americas]]> 2020-10-01 16:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/795239643 Discussion Questions: Spirited Things Video ryannchapmann https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/795263421 1. How do contexts like enslaved African to white colonizer ratio and catholic versus christian religious dominance influence African cultural retention in the Americas? What are some examples?
2. In what wats does African cultural retention occur differently in contexts where it is stifled heavily, such as in the US, versus contexts where it can flourish more, such as in Cuba?
3. In what ways do Europeans react to African cultural retention? 
4. What are some examples of African culture blending with Native American and European cultures? In what contexts does this occur least, and in which contexts does this occur most?]]> 2020-10-01 16:09:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/795263421 Rice Plantations blau21 https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/795664120 1. What best describes "Black Rice"? pg 141
2. What were some ways did Black gender play a role in rice cultivation/agriculture?
3. Do you think there is relevancy to why whites in the Americas like the white rice when the regular white rice (Carolina Gold) was more nutritious? Also verses Red rice or Sative]]> 2020-10-01 17:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/795664120 W.E.B. Dubois " The Double Aimed Struggle" xandrinna https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/802257099 In Chapter One of The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Dubois mentioned "double aims" as seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals causing people to woo false gods, invoking false means of salvation , and making the individual ashamed of themselves.  What does Dubois mean in detail about "double aims" (double consciousness)? ]]> 2020-10-05 08:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/802257099 Negotiating Race and Freedom in the Revolutionary Atlantic moniquegarcia https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/812812433 Rebecca J. Scott and Jean M. Hébrard, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
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Questions:
1. Why was there such a hesitation in the acceptance of individuals from Saint Domingue?
2. How did slavery affect free people of color in New Orleans? 
3. What alternatives did slaveholders and Haitian refugees have in combating Louisiana legislation in regards to manumission and interracial marriage?]]> 2020-10-08 06:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/812812433 Negotiating Race and Freedom in the Revolutionary Atlantic (Part II) moniquegarcia https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/812819632 Examines the connection between Haiti and New Orleans]]> 2020-10-08 06:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/812819632 moniquegarcia https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/812899435 2020-10-08 06:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/812899435 Negotiating Race and Freedom in the Revolutionary Atlantic https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/812993648 Ada Ferrer, Haiti, Free Soil, and Antislavery in the Revolutionary Atlantic
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Questions
1) What are the differences between the Northern and Southern parts of Haiti and how did this influence the choice of the seven enslaved men from Jamaica on where to sail towards? 

2) Why was the North so bothered by the actions that the Southern part did with the enslaved men from Jamaica? 

3) Who is Alexandre Petion and why is he so important within Haitian history and the article?


]]> 2020-10-08 07:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/812993648 Early Developments on the Concept of Pan-Africanism https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/833765410
1.    How do you think papers and journals such as the Negro, Freedom Journal, and Rights of All contributed to development of Pan-Africanism? 
 
2.    In your estimation, why is Delany arguing for an African or Black capitalism?
 
3.    Blyden worked to construct the concept of the African personality. Do you agree with his criteria? Do you think it aligns with modern concepts of Pan-Africanism?
 
4.    Did you find it troubling that Blyden justified colonialism? Why? Given his context and time, is there a logical reason for these commitments?
 
5.    While Blyden advanced an African identity, some scholars suggest that his views developed harmful outcomes.  
]]> 2020-10-15 19:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/833765410 Black Missionaries and African Colonization in West Africa lindsayevelynncano https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/853989992 1. In what ways did religion allow for the continued colonization of West Africa, and who were some of the main colonizers (which groups)?
2. How does this weeks topic relate to last week’s and more specifically how can we connect it to the concept of “spiritual decolonization”?
3. What role did Black missionaries play in colonization as opposed to White missionaries? ]]> 2020-10-22 19:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/853989992 Negritude (lyrics) jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/867156518 By Youssoupha  ]]> 2020-10-27 18:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/867156518 Theorizing Blackness: Negritude and 20th Century Pan Africanism Discussion Questions: https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/872247473 1. What did Suzanne Césaire  mean by “La Grand Camouflage,” why did she advocate for its use, whom did she think it is useful for?

2. Why did Suzanne Césaire think poetry was so important to the Caribbean?

3. What did Nardal mean by Antilleans not having “full French citizenship,” why did this matter to her?

4. How were the ideas and/or topics addressed by Suzanne Césaire and Nardal emerge within The Future is Elsewhere?
]]> 2020-10-29 06:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/872247473 Ryan's Presentation Notes https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/874945252 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JOGboXLhqnyHXZp6iFFce46kcdTOd0CJpJ4VK6dihPg/edit?usp=sharing

This is a direct link to my notes for the presentation, I will warn though however that they're not very well organized.]]> 2020-10-29 21:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/874945252 New! Diaspora in the News - Atlantic Ocean jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/914294908 Given what we know about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage, should the Atlantic seafloor be labeled a Memorial - Read the Article and weigh in.]]> 2020-11-11 20:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/914294908 Tips and Best Practices for Analyzing Texts and Sources/Precis jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/918656180 2020-11-12 22:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/918656180 Strange Fish West African Migrants and Death in the Mediterranean (11/17) https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/933861584 1. Now knowing the dangers at hand do you feel you would attempt to move along these dangerous routes in search of a better life?
2. Why do you think the International Organization for Migration initially low balled their first death count in the Mediterranean?
3. Of those that make the trek and land in Europe what other problems do you think are waiting for them in Europe that they probably don't expect?]]> 2020-11-17 20:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/933861584 New! Diaspora In the News - Slavery, History and the Dominican Republic jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/965813534 Due to centuries of racism and the silences it creates, there are whole histories of place that are yet to be told. Here is one of them - read the article and weigh in. ]]> 2020-11-27 14:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/965813534 New! Diaspora In the News - The Rise, Black Chefs' influence on American Cuisine jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/965846963 We have learned that the African Diaspora not only includes the circulation of people, ideas and culture, but it also includes the circulation of food staples, recipes and ways of connecting to the past, present and future all while sitting at the dinner table. Read the article and weigh in. ]]> 2020-11-27 15:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/965846963 New! Scientists say thousands of years ago West Africans migrated to east and southern Africa via Zambia jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/967296068  African Migration, or the forced, induced or voluntary movement of people throughout, and out of the African continent shapes much of what we come to know about the African Diaspora. How might this pre-colonial research on African migration expand, enhance or complicate our understanding of movement and migration on the Continent of Africa? Read the article and weigh in?]]> 2020-11-28 17:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/967296068 Africans Must Focus On Africa's Problem-PLO LUMUMBA arivera133 https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/982253609 Questions regarding an Important figure currently in Africa:

- During the interview with Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, what were his takes on the issues keeping Africa from unifying as one? What were the steps he would take to make Africa as prosperous? 

https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/patrick-loch-otieno-lumumba

]]> 2020-12-03 01:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/982253609 Digital Diasporas: Blaxit, YouTube and The Year of Return arivera133 https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/982286517 In the Al Jazeera discussion panel, how do the guests tackle the issue of young African American's romanticizing the land of Africa? How do local African's caution these recent trends of "Blaxit", "Year of Return"? ]]> 2020-12-03 01:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/982286517 Married In Netherlands But Ghana Saved Our Marriage! michael1vega https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/982541753 According to the Acheampong Family, what were some of the main reasons for moving from the Netherlands to Ghana? For the children of the Acheampong Family, what are some of the benefits of growing up in Ghana as opposed to growing up in the Netherlands? ]]> 2020-12-03 04:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/982541753 England Is A Dump But Africa Is A Paradise michael1vega https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/982588514 What was the main idea behind Juliet's argument that Africans are not living in England, they're merely just surviving? What is England's "tax trap", what is the example Juliet mentions on how the tax trap hinders Africans living in England?]]> 2020-12-03 05:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/982588514 Discover the Sounds of Luedji Luna - Bahia Brazil jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/1000053008 2020-12-08 20:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/1000053008 Final Notebook Prompt- You may cut and paste this same response into your final notebook and use it towards your post learning self-assessment. jmpewu https://padlet.com/jmpewu/yy4wzjjxp9uo/wish/1007874227
  • Describe how your perceptions of West Africa and the cultural legacies of the African Diaspora changed  since taking this course. Did you learn something new, cast aside previous misconceptions, or gain a better understanding of a particular theme, key term or concept?


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