CUNY Academic Commons

African American history and culture is unique compared to other cultures. One of the more tragic elements of African American culture is what W.E.B. Du Bois refers to as “sorrow songs”. These sorrow songs are a […]

At the beginning of the “Power” episode, Damon Krukowski asserts, “the marginal-the rejected-the repressed-is whatever the powerful have decided is of no use at the moment.” He goes on to ask, “But might it [the m […]

In Damon Krukowski’s Ways of Hearing Episode 2 Love, he presents the argument that because sound has moved to a digital platform to keep up with today’s technology, the human voice has lost an element of their […]

In Ways of Hearing Episode 2: Space, Damon Krukowski speaks about noise and his experience growing up in New York City. In Krukowski’s view, he describes the noise as “less of a roar and more like being hit with a […]

According to Martin A. Berger, white owned newspaper and magazine owners during the times of the civil rights movement often selected photographs that catered to their white readers’ base even though the heart of […]

In John Berger’s Ways of Seeing Episode 4, he observes that advertising images are all around us and affect us in ways we might not even realize. He states “We change ourselves by buying more.” In other words, […]

In John Berger’s Ways of Seeing Episode 2, he brings up the controversial ideology that women’s nudity is solely created for the male viewer,connecting it with nude paintings of women from the Renaissance […]

1.According to Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, writers should use the model of “entering the conversation” in their writing. What are the advantages of this model?

When using the They Say/I Say format in w […]

    Hello All! My name is Alexis, I’m a 30 year old (90’s baby!) mother of a 6 year old boy. Born and raised in Astoria, Queens (I’m still surprised at how much it’s changed over the last 20 years). I’ve had a l […]