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action of reading

• inside knowledge is part of “reading” a text or image

• reading is just as complicated as writing

• ex. using notebook LM to digest class readings

• point of reading: to get something out of the text

  • people read in different ways

  • innuendos, appeals to certain emotions, etc

  • ethos, logos, pathos

    • ex. BLM signs, road signs

• reading stories behind certain media

  • ex. joe kelly

the act of reading

• bringing one’s own knowledge of culture, content, context, text use, etc into an encounter with the writer, in an active process of meaning-making

• subordinated groups harness language to contest or transform dominant practices

text examples in culture and history

• Plymouth rock

  • first euro-american settlers

    • long after, they wrote 1620 on it to commemorate it

• first Africans in Virginia

  • 1619 project

  • sign saying first people from Africa to the States

  • coincides with Plymouth rock white settlers

    • slavery’s historical underpinnings remain perceptible today and continue to influence American politics

today’s reading

• African American history (contexts of resistance) - WEB Du Bois homesite

• 13th amendment abolished slavery (1865)

• WEB Du Bois

  • one of the NAACP founders

  • famous academically