If you have the time this weekend, please try to attend. It features the drumming talents of one of our very own!
Douglass Credibility Prompt
A full draft is due (on paper) on Wednesday, February 1st.
Prof. David Blight interviewed on stage by Marcus Campbell, Ed.D., Assistant Superintendent/Principal at Evanston Township High School on January 25, 2019.
Frederick Douglass: Categories of Credibility
Read up to (but not including) Chapter X (10) for next class.
Consider the following prompt: “Because Frederick Douglass was an atypical slave, and later became an abolitionist, he is not a credible source of information regarding the ‘peculiar institution’.” Agree or disagree, using specific evidence (quotes and page numbers). This essay has not been assigned yet.
TONIGHT: Frederick Douglass in Photographs
6-7:00 pm at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College via Zoom (free)
Image: Aaron Turner, Seen, of light and legacy, from the Black Alchemy Vol.2 series, 2022
"Join us for a virtual talk conversation between Refracting Histories artist Aaron Turner and photography scholar Shawn Michelle Smith. Turner and Smith will discuss Frederick Douglass as the most photographed person of the 19th century, as well as his prescient views on the power of photography for shattering false narratives. Smith is professor of visual and critical studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois."