Hannah Cobb and Karina Croucher
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- August 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198784258
- eISBN:
- 9780191888700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198784258.003.0010
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Non-Classical
This chapter begins with a final semi-fictional narrative, emerging partly out of the narrative in Chapter 9, but now returning to Lecturers X and Y, explaining how their use of cake in a conference ...
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This chapter begins with a final semi-fictional narrative, emerging partly out of the narrative in Chapter 9, but now returning to Lecturers X and Y, explaining how their use of cake in a conference paper can be deployed to explain the approach advocated in this book. In turn, the chapter sums up the arguments made throughout the volume, providing a series of tangible recommendations and collective actions under the subheadings: pedagogy, political economy, and training; pedagogy, equality, and diversity; teaching, learning, and scale; revaluing pedagogy; and recommendations beyond archaeology. At the heart of these is one foundational recommendation: ‘We must recognize the role of human and non-human entities in the learning process and that teaching and learning emerges through assemblages of human and non-human components.’ The chapter highlights the non-normative, feminist, collective approach to writing that characterizes the volume and connects this explicitly to the process of becoming archaeologist.Less
This chapter begins with a final semi-fictional narrative, emerging partly out of the narrative in Chapter 9, but now returning to Lecturers X and Y, explaining how their use of cake in a conference paper can be deployed to explain the approach advocated in this book. In turn, the chapter sums up the arguments made throughout the volume, providing a series of tangible recommendations and collective actions under the subheadings: pedagogy, political economy, and training; pedagogy, equality, and diversity; teaching, learning, and scale; revaluing pedagogy; and recommendations beyond archaeology. At the heart of these is one foundational recommendation: ‘We must recognize the role of human and non-human entities in the learning process and that teaching and learning emerges through assemblages of human and non-human components.’ The chapter highlights the non-normative, feminist, collective approach to writing that characterizes the volume and connects this explicitly to the process of becoming archaeologist.
Brian Dolinar
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617032691
- eISBN:
- 9781617032707
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032691.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This book describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs ...
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This book describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial Organizations’s effort to recruit black workers inspired growing interest in the labor movement. One of the most concerted efforts was made by the National Negro Congress (NNC), a coalition of civil rights and labor organizations, which held cultural panels at its national conferences, fought segregation in the culture industries, promoted cultural education, and involved writers and artists in staging mass rallies during World War II. The formation of a black cultural front is examined by looking at the works of poet Langston Hughes, novelist Chester Himes, and cartoonist Ollie Harrington. While none of them were card-carrying members of the Communist Party, they all participated in the Left at one point in their careers. Interestingly, they all turned to creating popular culture in order to reach the black masses, who were captivated by the movies, radio, newspapers, and detective novels. There are chapters on the Hughes’ “Simple” stories, Himes’ detective fiction, and Harrington’s “Bootsie” cartoons. Collectively, the experience of these three figures contributes to the story of a “long” movement for African American freedom that flourished during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Yet this book also stresses the impact that McCarthyism had on dismantling the Black Left.Less
This book describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial Organizations’s effort to recruit black workers inspired growing interest in the labor movement. One of the most concerted efforts was made by the National Negro Congress (NNC), a coalition of civil rights and labor organizations, which held cultural panels at its national conferences, fought segregation in the culture industries, promoted cultural education, and involved writers and artists in staging mass rallies during World War II. The formation of a black cultural front is examined by looking at the works of poet Langston Hughes, novelist Chester Himes, and cartoonist Ollie Harrington. While none of them were card-carrying members of the Communist Party, they all participated in the Left at one point in their careers. Interestingly, they all turned to creating popular culture in order to reach the black masses, who were captivated by the movies, radio, newspapers, and detective novels. There are chapters on the Hughes’ “Simple” stories, Himes’ detective fiction, and Harrington’s “Bootsie” cartoons. Collectively, the experience of these three figures contributes to the story of a “long” movement for African American freedom that flourished during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Yet this book also stresses the impact that McCarthyism had on dismantling the Black Left.
