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Playing Changes: Music As Mediator Between Japanese And Black Americans, E Taylor Atkins
Playing Changes: Music As Mediator Between Japanese And Black Americans, E Taylor Atkins
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Since the mid-twentieth century, music has played a central role in encounters and interactions between the people of Japan and those of African descent. It proved far more effective for pro- moting interracial dialogue and understanding than efforts in the early 1900s to foster an alliance against white supremacy and imperialism. This essay unpacks the ways that encounters with Black music transformed Japanese musicking and generated knowledge and empathy for people of African descent among Japanese. Personal interactions between Black and Japanese musicians constituted a process of “grassroots globalization” that circumvented the dominance of American mass media in representing African …
Designing For Everyone: Accessibility, Inclusion, And Equity In Online Instruction, Kimberly Shotick
Designing For Everyone: Accessibility, Inclusion, And Equity In Online Instruction, Kimberly Shotick
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This chapter introduces practices that promote equity and inclusion in online learning spaces through the lens of Universal Design for Learning.
Dodging Truths And Burning Facts: Visual Literacy And Critical Thinking In The Photography Classroom, Larissa K. Garcia, Jessica Labatte
Dodging Truths And Burning Facts: Visual Literacy And Critical Thinking In The Photography Classroom, Larissa K. Garcia, Jessica Labatte
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This chapter describes a collaboration between a librarian and photography professor to integrate visual literacy instruction into two courses of the photography program with activities, connected to specific course assignments, that emphasize an acute understanding of the photographic choices used to create a message as foundational to artistic practice.