Please read The New Republic interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates and watch the Syfy
You Tube video interview with Brian
Stelfreeze. Both interviews give us a taste of things to come in Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet. Both also give us a glimpse of the whole person behind, respectively, the writing and art of this text and of their considerations and goals for this work.
If you're not familiar with Ta-Nehisi Coates' writing prior to Black Panther, please read this excerpt from his award-winning and bestselling book Between the World and Me. For many readers, including novelist Toni Morrison, this book is a seminal text in its deconstruction of racism and the toll racism takes on both the black body and the black psyche. From this excerpt, you will get a sense of Coates' style and voice in this non-fiction genre of writing.
For your written class prep,
Use the interviews to pose several threads and/or questions you will take with you into reading The Black Panther. What will you be looking for? What are you wondering about?
What do these interviews alert you to?
How/where do they surprise you or confuse your or inspire you or…?
Part A:
Quote two specific places in the interview with Coates and then formulate a question or a wondering for each quote.
Part B:
Quote two specific places in the interview with Stelfreeze and then formulate a question or a wondering for each of quote.
That's all!
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