COAS Freshman Seminar Fall 2017 Co-Curricular Activity Mbongi Form

Name: Kaisheem Fowler-Bryant ID: @02856217 Class Day (Wednesday)

Event Title: Blood at the Root Event Day/Time/Location: Saturday. October 14th at ETS @8pm

Event assessment (1-10): 8 Presenter(s) effectiveness (1-10): 8.5 Relation to Course Objectives (1-10): 7
Would you attend another event on this topic or sponsored by the organizers of this event?

Summarize this co-curricular activity in one paragraph.

Domonique Morriseaus Blood at the Root follows six high school students at Cedar High School. The basis of the play is of the
Jena Six, in which six black students were arrested and charged for attempted murder after a school fight provoked by hanging
nooses on the tree. Within the play, Morriseau explores multi-complex layers of injustice that happens between the characters.

What contemporary topics were discussed at this activity?

#BlackLivesMatter Rhetoric
Injustice and inequality
Hate crime
Homophobia
Hysteria

Indicate by region some material (concepts, figures, events) mentioned or discussed today:
Africa United States Caribbean/Latin America Euro
Oppression Race and Racism N/A Concept of blackness
White Privelage
Nooses
Confederacy
Jena Six

List two new things (in terms of intellectual work) you thought about at this activity.

1. Pieces of political theatre have a clear ask that the audience is then left with. What is that ask for

this show?

2. The alienation of white people in predominantly black spaces.

What could the presenter(s) have done better to assist your learning experience?

Acknowledge the other injustices presented in the text as opposed to solely focus on BlackLivesMatter rhetoric

What could you have done to improve your learning experience today?
Simply absorb the experience as it is instead of over analyzing and overthinking each moment and action of the play.
Relate the event to at least two objectives for this course, as outlined on the syllabus.
1. To encourage you to pursue a lifetime of independent discovery, including the
appreciation of the importance of research.

2. To initiate and nurture your quests to become knowledgeable and compassionate about the world and
prepared to engage critical global issues from an informed perspective;