Self-Evaluation Guidelines (3 pages, double spaced, 11 inch font, 1.5 margins, No cover page, black font (for legibility)
Please share your thoughts about the course at mid-point during our time together. You do not have to agree with the assigned readings or my lectures. I am asking you to think critically about the ideas that have been presented. These are prompts to get you thinking: Do you think it is important to be in debt to your parents or other caregivers? Why must you repay? Is credit something that remains important to you? Why or why not? What needs to be done to create a world without rape? Why might restorative justice be a better solution than prison? Why are people of color more vulnerable to sexual violence? Is there a space that we can be free like the place Sun Ra envisions? How can I make the course more engaging? Feel free to talk directly to me in your writing. For instance you can begin your paper in this way, \u201cHi Brian\u2026\u201d You will not receive a \u201cgrade\u201d for this self-evaluation but if you meet the requirements I will be in \u201cBad Debt\u201d to you. I will explain more later. Please be sure to use two quotes from two different readings that were assigned by me. You can also make use of a supplemental reading that I provided. Please use complete sentences for the quotes and refrain from using block quotes. Recall that you must reference a presentation (include the date) and materials\/media shared in class for the self evaluation. Please don\u2019t do any unnecessary spacing to pad your paper.
For the Evaluation: You can narrate your life and describe how the materials and conversations have challenged or reinforced your thinking about the topics. You can express any disappointment you have in the class, describe what you envisioned and how the course does not meet expectations and how you would like it to change. Alternatively, you can describe what pleases you or challenges you in a good way about the course. Personal details that you can connect to the readings will be received graciously and with genuine curiosity. These are just ideas. Ask yourself so far: are prisons racist and sexist and should we work to replace them with something different that does not dehumanize offenders? What are some of the unaddressed causes that lead to the United States being the world\u2019s leader in incarcerating people? What is the connection between mass incarceration and slavery?
Ask yourself is Afropessism separatist or inclusive? Nationalist or multiracial? What do Afropessimists mean when they say the predicament of black people has no analogous experience? Are they correct to believe that non-black people of color are junior partners in black oppression? How so? How does this impact liberatory mult-racial coalition building (the kind we might find in the Undercommons)?
Here are some quotes from Moten and Harney for you to consider as you write for an \u201cA\u201d These quotes will not count as a quote but you are encouraged to engage with them. Letter grades create a competitive atmosphere that encourages intellectual dishonesty and a pursuit of things that have only instrumental value that help \u201cindividuals\u201d rather than assist the the \u201ccollective\u201d.\u201d We should seek knowledge but not for \u201cCredit.\u201d On the other hand, \u201cBad Debt\u201d is me signing approval forms for students to attend the course after the deadline because of personal and financial reasons. I\u2019m not seeking to obstruct anyone from Study and I don\u2019t expect any repayment. Bad Debt is when you show up to class when you don\u2019t have to, to listen, share, with an open heart; not to score points on people at different stages in their journey or to silence historically vulnerable voices. That doesn\u2019t mean Bad Debt means taking on the labor of teaching folks at different stages and I sympathize with how black people (and other people of color) are unfairly placed in this role. But Bad Debt is about a generosity of spirit. It doesn\u2019t have all the answers but it wants to save the best stuff for you. You don\u2019t have to pay me back. We are good. \u201cCredit is a means of privatization and debt a means of socialization.\u201d (61)
\u201cOnce you start to see bad debt, you start to see it everywhere, hear it everywhere, feel it everywhere. This is the real crisis for credit, its real crisis of accumulation. Now debt begins to accumulate without it. That\u2019s what makes it so bad. We saw it in a step yesterday, some hips, a smile, the way a hand moved. We heard it in a break, a cut, a lilt, the way the words leapt. We felt it in the way someone saves the best stuff just to give it to you and then its gone, given, a debt. They don\u2019t want nothing [\u2026] Credit keeps track. Debt forgets.\u201d (62)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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