The Corona 2020 Remix

Dear African American Rhetoric Scholars,
Our class will now go fully digital. The World Health Organization has designated COVID-19 a pandemic and TCU has moved all classes online. Our official, virtual return date is March 24. We will get through this moment together... although perhaps miles apart.... as best we can. The class will shift, but we will try to humanize our learning and communing in this moment.

This is the re-mix!

....and for good measure, I included some Funkmaster Flex as our re-mix standard.

stay hyped!
(hi Tech)

We will continue with the hype assignments. See the Corona 2020 Syllabus Re-mix for when you present (for those who haven't already). On each Tuesday and Thursday (to match our class times), I will post your colleague's google slides to this website under this mainpage. Presenters should write a short letter to colleagues to accompany the google slides sent in. Send the link to your hype presentation to [email protected]. I will need editing privileges via google slides so that I can embed your work. At the end of the semester, you decide if you would like your presentation to remain on the website.

When you create your google slides, really hype us to feel connected--- like what we think, see, and do matter. You will find your colleagues' presentations right here under this tab, just like every day of class has had an agenda this semester. When you view a hype presentation, please write a comment right on the page in the discussion forum--- tell us sumthin! The goal here is simple: stay in touch with one another and keep our conversations going. Viewers should let us know what you are thinking about the presentation and also how you are doing. Send some love and shout-outs using the commenting forum on each page.

write On!
(Lo Tech)

Guess what? We still got RRs. I know some of yall are BIG MAD about that, but nope, these ain't goin away. David did write some Blues lyrics for yall about all these RRs though. LOL!

Send in these RRs. We don't need contemporary/hi-tech for everything so let's mix it up with old and new technologies. Email RRs to [email protected] mail them. Yes, as in a letter through the USPS! Pass the letters off to your USPS mail carrier who is still working. As of now, snail mail is still safe. See more about this on the Corona 2020 Syllabus Re-mix. Please note that we will not be doing a final digital portfolio. The final portfolios will be more traditional now, unfortunately. I do not pursue website design unless I am there to walk you through the process, show you how to code, allow you all to connect with one another, etc. This is not the right time or place for that kind of work.

The Corona 2020 Syllabus Re-mix

For a PDF of the Corona 2020 Syllabus Remix, click here: This is the New School Version which includes everything after Spring Break/Post-Corona as shown above in the flipbook.

For a Quick Guide to the Corona 2020 Syllabus Remix, click here: This quick guide just gives you the dates and deadlines in a streamlined chart.

For a PDF that includes the Original Syllabus, click here: This is the Old School Version which includes everything BEFORE Spring Break/Corona.

See and click below for our remaining themes.

theme four
"All Tea, No Shade": Black Queer Rhetorics for a New Language of Humanness

OUR final unit