struggle of decolonizing
Driving around Wednesday afternoon, I noticed a substantial uptick in auto and pedestrian traffic around the UT campus. I felt a sudden pang of anxiety – did I have the first day of class wrong? I teach on the first day of class this semester – I know students are automatically dropped if they don’t attend the first class meeting, but what happens if the instructor doesn’t show up? I assured myself that the first day of class is indeed this Wednesday, August 30th.
This semester my friend Olivier is teaching what could only be an awesome class, RTF 370 “The Cinemas of Sub-Saharan Africa.” It was added late, and Olivier is worried that not enough students will enroll for the class to make. It’s not often that the RTF department offers classes that address film from the Global South, so this may be your only chance to take a class dealing with movies from the developing world. If you’re a UT student have any interest in African cinema, post-colonial cinema, or critical race theory, I strongly encourage you to enroll.
In other College of Communication news, The Daily Texan has a story on the closure of the CoC’s home across the street from home. According to the story, the space now occupied by Little City will become a “Chinese food cafe” and serve coffee roasted by Little City. There was no word on where they plan to locate the roaster. Hopefully the new restaurant will be cheap and casual enough for communication students to colonize.
