The Black Atlantic
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“Expanding the Atlantic” for World Literature Classrooms
Essential Questions, Learning Goals, & Standards
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Contemporary Film and the Black Atlantic
Familial and Community Relationships
Denied Communities: Othering in Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave
Roll Jordan Roll: A Community in Song and Sound
Straddling Divides: Unpacking the Father-Son Relationships in The Butler and Lincoln
History
Accumulated Histories and Disposable People in Cloud Atlas and the Black Atlantic
Disneyfied Histories: Disney’s Intentional Inaccuracy, Historical Films, and The Black Atlantic
Pirates of the Caribbean: The (Almost) Slaveless Caribbean, Race, and the Black Atlantic
The Princess and the Frog: Rewriting Jazz Age History and Culture
Lincoln and Amazing Grace: History, Abolition, Emancipation, and the Representation of Politics
Sentimentality and Love
Part One: Negotiating Romance and Sentimentality in Django Unchained
Part Two: (Re)writing Love in 12 Years a Slave
Violence
12 Years a Slave: Psychological Violence
Cloud Atlas: The More We Change…
Django Unchained: Anti-History Overflowing
Lincoln: Not Another War Movie
The Help: Verbal Violence
Depictions of the Middle Passage and the Slave Trade in Visual Art
“Levitate,” “Windward Coast” and “Vicissitudes”: Curatorial Statement
Radcliffe Bailey, “Levitate” and “Winward Coast”
Jason de Caires Taylor, “Vicissitudes”
“Levitate,” “Windward Coast” and “Vicissitudes”: Comparative Reflections
“Middle Passage,” “Middle Passage II,” “Middle Passages #5,” “Great America,” “Absolut Power,” “Afro-American Express” : Curatorial Statement
Keith Morrison, “Middle Passage,” “Middle Passage II”
Kara Walker, “Middle Passages #5”
Kerry James Marshall, “Great America”
Hank Willis Thomas, “Absolut Power” and “Afro-American Express”
“Middle Passage,” “Middle Passage II,” “Middle Passages #5,” “Great America,” “Absolut Power,” “Afro-American Express”: Reflections
Exploring the Black Atlantic Through Sound
Mapping the Black Atlantic Through Samples
Back to Africa?
From Soul to Hip-Hop
The Francophone Atlantic as Musical Testimony for Modern Blackness
Through Fear and Despair : Oxmo Puccino and the idea of “Black” Resistance in 21th century France.
Youssou N’Dour’s musical travels: West Africa and Senegal as Black Atlantic crucibles
The Political Imaginaries of Black Atlantic Cultural Creation
“I know the mid-Atlantic slave trade fascinates me:” On Romanticizing the Black Atlantic
Distant Relatives: Antiphony and the Original Call
Jay Z’s Oceans: Cultural Production, Historical Imaginaries, and Collective Identity
Representing Bois Caïman
Bois Caïman as “Religion”
Curse or “Culture”?
Occupation and the Occult
Religion and Revolution
Religion and the New Republic
Genealogy of Bois Caïman Textual Sources
20th Century Textual Accounts
Debates about Bois Caïman
Early Accounts of Bois Caïman
Literary Accounts, Oral Tradition, and Cultural Texts of Bois Caïman
Music and Bois Caïman
Bois Caïman as a symbol of resistance
Bois Caïman as a symbol of unity
Bois Caïman as a “curse”
Painting Mystery and Memory: Bois Caïman in Visual Art
Haitian Painting, A Little Context
Painting Vodou and Bois Caïman
Duke Performances Black Atlantic Series
Joan Soriano
Emeline Michel
Betsayda Machado y La Parranda El Clavo-Venezuela
Trio da Kali
Aurelio
Diego El Cigala
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