GOODBYE COM450...!

• Together, we explored the shallow and the deep connections between media representations of race and the individual and communal experiences media documents suppose to represent.
• Together, we investigated how notions of Blackness are shaped by and through biased and ignorant media.
• Together, we recognized the power of knowledge, critical analysis, comity and passion.
• And, together, we vowed to take our skills to the street.

|rays|

Although our 18 weeks are up, we continue, together and apart, to examine media bias, replacing it with myriad representations of truth, our truth. |rays| is our first endeavor. |rays| is a 55 minute video investigating the many aspects of race, from culture, identity, interracial marraige and hip-hop to police profiling, media bias and immigration. Clips and more information on the video will be available soon, so keep checking back!

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SESSION SIXTEEN: Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song

Power and Protest in Black Cinema II: Examine Black images of power and protest in the Blaxploitation films of the 1970’s.
Screening: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. Dir. Melvin van Peebles, 1971. (97 min.)

Project homework: Work on LAP.
Reading: Morris, Gary. “Blaxploitation: A Sketch.” Bright Lights Film Journal. Mar 1997.

SESSION FIFTEEN: Black Orpheus

Power and Protest in Black Cinema III: Examine Black images of power and protest in International Black Cinema.
Screening: Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus). Dir. Marcel Camus. Brazil, 1959. (107 min.)

Project homework: Work on LAP transcription and reflection.
Reading: Ehrenstein, David. “Black Orpheus.” The Criterion Collection.