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African American Sacred/Secular Continuum

 African American ways of knowing operate on a Sacred/Secular Continuum. This means there is rarely a division between sacred and secular ideologies. This is because historically sacred gatherings were the only place Black people could gatherer without the gaze of white overseers.   Historically the Black church initiated and sustained insurrections and critical activism. Both Sojourner Truth and Malcolm X, were Preachers

African American oratorical output has six classification schemes.
(1)  to protest grievances (2) to state complains (3) to demand rights (4) to advocate radical cooperation (5) to mold racial consciousness and (6) to simulate racial pride  (Gilyard 2011)

Remix: Afrofuturistic Road Map

We decided to use a mind map to try to represent our conversation last week. Our map touches three key points: the back in the day narrative, living memory/rememory, and eblack studies/remix. Each main point is supplemented by a number of examples and analogues. Some examples come from those sections of Digital Griots brought up during Reading Group. Some come from questions and examples brought up during our conversation.

We invite you to click around our map, explore our links (note: they will not open up a new window), and consider the connections we've tried to create here.

To navigate to our mind map, click the link below: https://coggle.it/diagram/53206e227f352281050031a3/58200ad6bff4da177373a4a85c4f0a8c9b6947a8ac614dbe1eb667c9a96c6dad

TJMS: Steve Silk Hurley Inauguration Day Mix 2013 [AUDIO] | Old School 100.3

TJMS: Steve Silk Hurley Inauguration Day Mix 2013 [AUDIO] | Old School 100.3

Sarah Smile Remix- Drake with Hall&Oates (+playlist)