FOR WEDNESDAY

1) Those of you who weren't in class today should (re-) read my attendance policy. It's on the very first post on this blog--the one titled "Syllabus."

2) Please generate a rough draft of your first 5-6 page paper, and bring 4 hard copies so that you can workshop it with your peers.

Your rough draft should use the opening paragraph(s) that I've provided below, in the post titled "First Paper Draft Generation."

In order to work with those paragraphs, your draft should include at least three quotes in which Coates is either

A) talking about the body in the context of institutional racism,

or

B) translating the language of the "host"--a language in which the body is obscured/buried/erased into something more visceral (and, Coates would probably say, more true).

Again, refer to previous post if you're confused.

Also in that post: I've included sample quotes and sample commentary on the quotes--things that, if I were writing this paper, I'd probably expand into full paragraphs.

(This should go without saying, but: please do not use my exact phrasing, if you choose to borrow any of these quotes/ideas.)