January 15
Welcome to the First week!

I. Welcome to Spring 2026!
  • We start with a Go-Around and then the Name Game
  • Tell us your name and major.  Then tell us something that you challenged yourself to do/be in 2025.  How and why? Examples might include: learning more about DFW; facing a fear of talking in public; becoming more involved at TCU; finding out about internships; hydrating (Here is Carmen's: read 125 novels in 2025)
  • Thank you Annie, David, and Isla for playing the Name Game on Tuesday! 
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II. Q&A on the Syllabus, Course Website & D2L
III. Next Week's Focus & Homework: "Rap Music as an Extension of the Black Rhetorical Tradition" (due Thursday)
  • You will need to read the syllabus and then direct yourself to the corresponding tabs on the website.  
We start the semester by looking at a center of gravity for Black performance: THE RE-MIX. 
​This is what Jackie Jones Royster calls "rhetorical continuities."
IV. Black Rhetorical Continuities (picking up from Tuesday)
​"Ego-Trippin... There Might Be a Reason Why" and Its Remix
(Giovanni meets... 80s-90s Black TV and 2000s R&B)

Part 1: The 1970s-80s
Giovanni's (1972) many sources of inspiration include: 
  • Her trip to Africa in the same year (1972)
  • the words/history of enslaved Black women like Sojourner Truth, etc
  • and a popular song --- "I Can't Get Next To You" by the Temptations (1969)
NOTE: The poem was recorded and sold as a record. 
​Feel free to read these lyrics as you listen.  Click here for the annotated lyrics on genius.com.

Part 2: The 1990s

Featured on the show "A Different World" about college students at an HBCU as the students, especially the Black women students, come to grips with the negative stereotypes of the Mammy image.

Watch the way "Kim" sheds the negative past and ends by adorning herself in a positive African past and new future.  Feel free to read these lyrics as you listen. ​

This episode is called "Mammy Dearest" (1991).

Part 3: The 2000s

Jill Scott's 2007 "Hate on Me"
Click here for lyrics

Feel free to read these lyrics as you listen. 
​"A Black/Woman/Speaks" and Its Remix
(Sonia Sanchez meets... 2000s Spoken Word)
​"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and Its Remix
(Gil Scott Heron meets... 1980s & 2000-teens Hip Hop)
VERY CURRENT (2025): Kendrick Lamar ("The Revolution About To Be Televised")

YOUr TASK/
Note-Taking
  1. Finish comments from Tuesday if you were here.  ​
  2. For those who weren't here Tuesday, no worries--- answer whatever if you can.
  3. All should answer #4 and #5 on back.
​V. TODAY'S HYPE: "Joey Bada$$: A Bada$$ Black/Hip Hop Rhetoric" by Angel Guyton
  • Introduction to the Hype Presentation Format and Point-Spread
  • Presentation (Carmen's Version) and Discussion based on Guyton's questions
  • Demo on Google Slides & Dign-Up next week (bring laptops)

Angel's Discussion points
How is calling himself Joey Bada$$ already an example of Black Rhetoric?

In the first video I showed y'all, “Land Of The Free,” why do you think Joey BadA$$ had the kkk members disguised as police officers, judges, and priests? What is he trying to convey?

Do you think it’s important for artists to speak on current, social issues, especially racial discrimination? Why or why not?

What are some issues going on in today's society you wish artist would talk more about through their music?
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