Week 5 Schedule
Tuesday
READ
“Tia Ciata’s House (Rio de Janeiro)” in National Rhythms, African Roots [33-50]
Richard Anderson, Alex Borucki, Daniel Domingues da Silva, David Eltis, Paul Lachance, Philip Misevich, and Olatunji Ojo. "Using African Names to Identify the Origins of Captives in the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Crowd-Sourcing and the Registers of Liberated Africans, 1808–1862." History in Africa 40 (2013) [CR 165-191]
EXPLORE
African Origins
- Read the FAQs on the help page.
- Watch the video on the help page.
- Try searching for several names.
DUE
African-origins.org Blog Post (300 words)
Thursday
READ
Barbara Browning, “Headspin: Capoeira’s Ironic Inversion,” in Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America, edited by Celeste Fraser Delgado and José Esteban Muñoz. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997) [CR 65-92]
Miriam Posner, “Some things to think about before you exhort everyone to code”
TRY
"CSS," W3Schools
- Play around with this coding sandbox.
- Jot down a few notes about what is intuitive, and what is more difficult to figure out.
DUE
- Revised blog post
- Short, informal paragraph on 1) what Browning might mean by “inversion” OR 2) what does the hyphen in Afro-Brazilian signal or contain?