As contingent faculty and an employee of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I don't have the power to strike (or even to refuse necessary tasks, like email). My teaching this semester is also mostly asynchronous. So for my World Religions class I added #ScholarStrike module. 1/?
To back up: I attempted to design the class from the ground up with anti-racist principles in mind. The first two weeks have focused on the forging of "religion" as a category of analysis in the context of colonial domination, w/ assists from Masuzawa, Smith, @KeepingIt_101 2/?
I also, for the first time, adopted principles of UDL, presenting multiple ways for students to complete weekly assignments and discussions. I set deadlines for the sake of lending structure, but explicitly told my students that everything is flexible. #EndCarcerealPedagogy 3/?
Weeks 3 and 4 focus on colonial violence and minoritized religious traditions in the U.S. context. This week (3) considers indigenous traditions, reading Zitkala-Sa and @TisaWenger alongside case studies: Ghost Dance movement & Wounded Knee, Water Protectors at Standing Rock. 4/?
Next week we'll compare case studies from Black religious communities in U.S., w/ the guidance of Jason R. Young on the "Flying African" and @JLWeisenfeld on the formation of "religio-racial identities" during the Great Migration 5/? academia.edu/34754412/All_G…
So the #ScholarStrike module fits well alongside these weeks, focusing on Black Muslim responses to police violence. It begins with the powerful video of Jacob Blake's father reciting Al-Fatiha when he spoke to the press. 6/?
Paired with @omarsuleiman504's brief essay on the significance of the moment religionnews.com/2020/08/26/fat… 7/?
Followed by excerpts from Malcolm X's 1962 speech in Los Angeles, responding to the police shooting seven Black men outside an LA mosque, killing one 8/?
I then kick the students back to their favorite podcast hosts for a brief explanation of what #ScholarStrike is and why it's happening 9/? keepingit101.com/scholar-strike
And I'll finally update the module over the course of the next few days with videos from the official @ScholarStrike teach-in videos on the YouTube channel. 10/? youtube.com/channel/UCu76I…
It's not like I have much of a platform, but for the rest of #ScholarStrike I'm done tweeting myself. Will signal-boost and R/T others. 11/11
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