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Modeled Task: Interview – Natalia D.
Transcription of 5 minute excerpt (6:57 – 12:28) below: Natalia Downer (Interviewer): Did you think about having your book published here in Jamaica? Or elsewhere? Stephanie Downer (Interviewee): Hm. I was thinking about [nervous chuckling] — having it published elsewhere I guess. [Combined laughter] And do you have a reason for that? No, to be…
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Interesting interview With King Dom
Here’s a video excerpt of the interview with King Dom. Below is the full transcript of the interview with King Dom Good Evening, my name is Dominic Ramsay and tonight we have a very interesting sort of interview. Tonight we are interviewing the man who goes by the name King Dom. King Dom is a…
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Afrofuturism and Food: An Interview with Educator/Food Blogger Dayna-Lee Stewart
By Kandice Thompson Conceptually, Afrofuturism easily sits in the theoretical realm and for my project I’m trying to find how Jamaicans have knowingly and unknowingly contributed to or been influenced by such radical schools of thought. Knowing this, I have to interrogate the factors that constitute a society. An essential component that is easily overlooked…
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Modeled Task #4 Sosania T: Traveler’s Interview
Mrs Lee: From a know miself Me: So you’ve never traveled anywhere else? Mrs. Lee: To Kingston and Spanish Town. Me: Ok fair enough, and do you usually need to ask directions when going somewhere new? Mrs. Lee: No enuh [Pause] mi just guh and if mi lost mi find mi way, mi try mark…
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An Afrofuturist’s Archive
Final Project Directory A Catalogue of Jamaica in the Afrofuturistic Space. What is Afrofuturism? The term Afrofuturism was coined by American cultural critic Mark Dery in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate and Tricia Rose. Initially used to address the intersection of African American themes and “technoculture”…
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Grace Jones: On The Cutting Edge
By Kandice Thompson Black Panther was many of our first entries into the world of Afrofuturism. This one film has done wonders with its reach, opening up the masses to ideas of a futuristic black society, but there is so much more. However, it seems as if most of the popular contributions have been done…
Sylvia Wynter's Dream 