tom hayden, big 60s radical and what may be chomsky's daughter? i dont know. terrorists, radicals, hard-core unregenerate anti-white leftists still alive and ambulent
try not to fall face-first into your soup as you listen to yet another boring technocrat tell you about his latest NGO or GO but in any case NWO plans
DIASPORIC VERTIGO- VALORIE THOMAS TALKS WITH CANDIDA ALVAREZ AND CAULEEN SMITH
from Xiaorui Zhu 1 year ago
Author and cultural scholar Valorie Thomas will talk with painter Candida Alvarez and artist/film maker Cauleen Smith about their artwork. Both artists are exhibiting their work concurrently in solo exhibitions at the Hyde Park Art Center. Thomas's recent essay "Live from Mambo Mountain" will be published in the catalog for Candida Alvarez's exhibition to be released in fall 2013.
Valorie D. Thomas is an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at Pomona College, in Claremont, California, where she teaches literature and social justice. Her writing has been included in Black Cool (edited by Rebecca Walker, 2012) and she is currently writing a book on indigenous spirituality and sacred space in African Diaspora film and literature.
This event is
co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture at the University of Chicago. Admission is free and open to the public.
[fucking bunch of gibberish you pay 45k a year tuition for, not counting board and books, etc. you listen to this video above - i mean the 2 minutes max you can physically stand, and then you think about the concept of 'white privilege']
valorie thomas
http://www.pomona.edu/academics/depa...ie-thomas.aspx
Associate Professor, English/Africana Studies
Education:
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (1999), University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A., Screenwriting, University of California, Los Angeles (1990)
[smells of some kind of state- or federal fast-tracking to up nog faculty numbers]
Expertise: African Diaspora film/literature
With Pomona Since: 1998
Office: Crookshank Hall 211
Campus Phone: (909) 607-9242
Email: Valorie Thomas
Research Interests
Diasporic vertigo, African Diaspora literary & cultural theory, indigenous spirituality
muti? santeria? as decolonizing practice, vernacular culture and language, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, Maya Deren, AfroFuturism, contemporary Native American literature
Recent Courses
ENG 56 PO Contemporary Native American Literature
ENG 67 PO Introduction to Literary Interpretation: Postcolonial Literatures in English
ENG/AFR 124 PO AfroFuturism
ENG/AFR 125C PO Introduction to African American Literature, 18th and 19th C
ENG/AFR 130 PO Special Topics in 20th C. African Diaspora Literature: Healing Narratives
ENG/AFR 140 PO Literature of Incarceration
ENG/AFR 170J PO Toni Morrison
Selected Publications
[basically you could read a few dozen books and know her whole repertoire]
“The Break,” in Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, Rebecca Walker, ed., Counterpoint Press (forthcoming, 2012)
“Dust to Wash Themselves: Diasporic Disidentifications in Zeitoun” in Biography, Special issue: Life Stories from the Creole City, (forthcoming 2011)
“Candomble’,” in The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World, SAGE Reference Project, eds. Stange, Mary Zeiss, Oyster, Carol K., Golson, J. Geoffrey, 2011
“Call and Response (Il)literacy,” The Huffington Post, 12/9/2010
“Mestiza Consciousness,” in The Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, SAGE Reference Project, ed. Jodi O’Brien. Vol. 2, Winter 2008
“Milkman Dead (The Bluest Eye).” Students’ Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters. M. J. Bruccoli and R. Layman, eds. Columbia, SC: Manly, Inc., 2008
“The Breedloves (The Bluest Eye).” Students’ Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters. M. J. Bruccoli and R. Layman, eds. Columbia, SC: Manly, Inc., 2008
“Placing Toni Morrison’s ‘Love’: African American and Women of Color Feminists Theorizing Embodiment, Home, and Memory,” International Journal of the Humanities, Common Ground Publishers, Victoria, Australia 2007
“1+1=3 and Other Dilemmas: Reading Vertigo in Invisible Man, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and Song of Solomon,” African American Review, vol. 37, n. 1, Spring 2003
“Keys to the Ancestors’ Chambers: An Approach to Teaching Beloved,” Reading Between the Black and White Keys: Deep Crossings in African Diaspora Studies, VeVe’ Clark, ed., St. Clair Drake Cultural Studies Forum, UC Berkeley, 1994
Selected Awards and Honors
Draper Center First Annual Community Engagement Award, 2010
NEH Summer Research Grant, 2006
Irvine Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award, 2004-2005
Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship, 2002-2003
University of Cape Town (Rondebosch, South Africa), Visiting Associate, Centre for African Studies, 2002
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possibly the worst professor i've ever had. so unorganized and very unprofessional. our classroom discussions would veer way off course. i was very disappointed.
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Prof. Thomas was amazing! She expects a great deal from her students. She is very critical of papers and is always available for her students. Her lectures entice even those that do not care for the subject!
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Prof. Thomas was terrible. She was totally unorganized, never turned back any work and did not create a safe place for discussion. It was openly acknowledged that no one did the reading and for the last half of the semester students led the class. She was completely unprofessional.
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She does not prepare for class. At all. Well, she probably does the reading. I'm sure she'd be an amazing friend, but she's a very disappointing professor. She lets the discussion go anywhere and everywhere, because she doesn't offer any structure.
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Wow... her lectures on literature cut to the core of the material. She does not beat around the bush. Honest, forthcoming, and not dogmatic in the least. She has a huge heart. Class discussions are INTENSE because she doesn't dumb down the material. You'll learn a lot about yourself in her classes.
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She was one of the most insightful, interesting and cool teachers I have ever had. While I am an economics major, the class was doable and I learned a lot about the subtleties of the African American culture, literature and history. She challenged me and the other students to move beyond the racial tension in the class. Challenging, but valuable.
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http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/Show...sp?tid=257324#
Professor Valorie Thomas: Remapping Black Women's Agency via Afrofuturism
pure leftist jargon - rearticulating the space blah blah blah "historically the black body was considered non-human..."