Author: thisisaustyn

I like watching the news for entertainment. Weird, right? Most people think of the news as a source of information. What happens out in the world is important, right? If something bad happens it’s important to be informed, to have an opinion, to have a side on an issue, right? See here’s the thing I … Continue reading Blog 12: The News is Good, Right?

Hate is a wild word isn’t it? When you Google the word hate you get this, “feel intense or passionate dislike for (someone).” It’s such a clean definition. It’s clinical almost. But that doesn’t really describe it. Hate is that burning feeling deep in the gut, when the person next to you sneeze in just … Continue reading Blog 11: Hate isn’t Hate

I’m behind in these things. I think part of the reason it has taken me awhile to do another one is because I have spent the last few weeks sort of meditating on this topic of ours. Black Power. What does it mean? I don’t mean like the definition. We have gone over that enough … Continue reading Blog 8: Hey, Yeah I’m Sort of Late

I realized as I was researching Cite Black Women, that I haven’t read that has been written a lot by Black women. When I’m not in class I pretty much read trash fiction. Stephen King is like my go to late night garbage reading. So, upon thinking about this subject I realized I was going … Continue reading Cite Black Women

So, here we are talking about racial divides and historical context and I can't help but thinking about serial killers. The main reason I can't stop thinking about it is because I have been watching Mindhunter all break. Now, the reason this show reminded me of the class is, because of the main plot of … Continue reading Mindhunter

You know the problem about being in the middle of the semester? Things that are acceptable at the beginning of the semester don’t seem to matter so much by the middle. I imagine that is universal for all students.  I am fascinated by people who maintain a healthy balance with work and school. I guess … Continue reading WHAT TO DO?

            I don’t know what everyone else is going to talk about, but here’s mine.  Marvel has created one of the best examples of Afrofuturism with the “Black Panther”. Not the movement but the character.  Huh, wonder if there is a connection there.  The character of the “Black Panther” was first created in 1966 again … Continue reading WAKANDA FOREVER!

            Let’s talk Black Arts in the current world. No, not magic but performance.  Specifically, some Rap music and the state of America. America loves some Rap music.  Don’t get me wrong there are some people, some white older people that still think it is hot garbage.  But by and large Rap music is on … Continue reading This Is America

On a good day I try my best to remember that there are a lot of things that are institutionally racist.  I wonder how many people do that though?  This blog is going to be slightly different more rambling so just bear with me here because I don’t know where we are going today.  I … Continue reading Blog Blog Blog

I think American Pragmatism is a good literary theory that can be applied to the Black Power Movement.  A little history in case no one knows what that is because well were supposed to explain it.  The theory states that instead of the mind being a mirror for reality that reflects the real world back. … Continue reading American Pragmatism