TY - CONF

T1 - Women’s radical cultural criticism: reflections and projections on teaching with Fredi Washington and Claudia Jones

AU - Hristova, Elena

PY - 2024/5/30

Y1 - 2024/5/30

N2 - In the recent publication of The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women’s Contributions to Media Studies, Hristova, Dorsten and Stabile ask readers to imagine structuring their modules around expanded foundations and thus transforming the arc of development. Taking this call for expanded imaginative teaching seriously, this presentation explores teaching with Fredi Washington and Claudia Jones on the undergraduate module “Cultural Dispatches: Practical Criticism and Journalism” (final year | Bangor University, Wales, UK). In its first iteration, the module rooted social justice activism as an essential component of cultural criticism, by using Washington’s original 1940s columns from the weekly Harlem newspaper People’s Voice. The presentation reflects, with the module’s students, on teaching and learning with Washington; and projects on further developments by centering Claudia Jones’s 1950s political and cultural work in London’s West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News.

AB - In the recent publication of The Ghost Reader: Recovering Women’s Contributions to Media Studies, Hristova, Dorsten and Stabile ask readers to imagine structuring their modules around expanded foundations and thus transforming the arc of development. Taking this call for expanded imaginative teaching seriously, this presentation explores teaching with Fredi Washington and Claudia Jones on the undergraduate module “Cultural Dispatches: Practical Criticism and Journalism” (final year | Bangor University, Wales, UK). In its first iteration, the module rooted social justice activism as an essential component of cultural criticism, by using Washington’s original 1940s columns from the weekly Harlem newspaper People’s Voice. The presentation reflects, with the module’s students, on teaching and learning with Washington; and projects on further developments by centering Claudia Jones’s 1950s political and cultural work in London’s West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News.

KW - History of Media Studies

KW - Cultural Criticism

KW - journalism

KW - Pedagogy

KW - West Indies

KW - United States

KW - feminist analysis

M3 - Paper

T2 - Cultural Studies Association

Y2 - 30 May 2024 through 1 June 2024

ER -