1. Self-Evaluation Guidelines (3 pages, double spaced, 11 inch font, 1.5
Self-Evaluation Guidelines (3 pages, double spaced, 11 inch font, 1.5 margins, No cover page,
black font (for legibility)Please share your thoughts about the course at mid-point during
our time together. You do not have to agree with the assigned readings or my lectures. I am
asking you to think critically about the ideas that have been presented. These are prompts
to get you thinking: Do you think it is important to be in debt to your parents or other
caregivers? Why must you repay? Is credit something that remains important to you? Why
or why not? What needs to be done to create a world without rape? Why might restorative
justice be a better solution than prison? Why are people of color more vulnerable to sexual
violence? Is there a space that we can be free like the place Sun Ra envisions? How can I
make the course more engaging? Feel free to talk directly to me in your writing. For
instance you can begin your paper in this way, “Hi Brian…” You will not receive a “grade” for
this self-evaluation but if you meet the requirements I will be in “Bad Debt” to you. I will
explain more later. Please be sure to use two quotes from two different readings that were
assigned by me. You can also make use of a supplemental reading that I provided. Please use
complete sentences for the quotes and refrain from using block quotes. Recall that you must
reference a presentation (include the date) and materials/media shared in class for the self
evaluation. Please don’t do any unnecessary spacing to pad your paper.For the Evaluation:
You can narrate your life and describe how the materials and conversations have challenged
or reinforced your thinking about the topics. You can express any disappointment you have
in the class, describe what you envisioned and how the course does not meet expectations
and how you would like it to change. Alternatively, you can describe what pleases you or
challenges you in a good way about the course. Personal details that you can connect to the
readings will be received graciously and with genuine curiosity. These are just ideas. Ask
yourself so far: are prisons racist and sexist and should we work to replace them with
something different that does not dehumanize offenders? What are some of the
unaddressed causes that lead to the United States being the world’s leader in incarcerating
people? What is the connection between mass incarceration and slavery?Ask yourself is
Afropessism separatist or inclusive? Nationalist or multiracial? What do Afropessimists
mean when they say the predicament of black people has no analogous experience? Are
they correct to believe that non-black people of color are junior partners in black
oppression? How so? How does this impact liberatory mult-racial coalition building (the
kind we might find in the Undercommons)?Here are some quotes from Moten and Harney
for you to consider as you write for an “A” These quotes will not count as a quote but you
2. are encouraged to engage with them. Letter grades create a competitive atmosphere that
encourages intellectual dishonesty and a pursuit of things that have only instrumental value
that help “individuals” rather than assist the the “collective”.” We should seek knowledge
but not for “Credit.” On the other hand, “Bad Debt” is me signing approval forms for
students to attend the course after the deadline because of personal and financial reasons.
I’m not seeking to obstruct anyone from Study and I don’t expect any repayment. Bad Debt
is when you show up to class when you don’t have to, to listen, share, with an open heart;
not to score points on people at different stages in their journey or to silence historically
vulnerable voices. That doesn’t mean Bad Debt means taking on the labor of teaching folks
at different stages and I sympathize with how black people (and other people of color) are
unfairly placed in this role. But Bad Debt is about a generosity of spirit. It doesn’t have all
the answers but it wants to save the best stuff for you. You don’t have to pay me back. We
are good. “Credit is a means of privatization and debt a means of socialization.” (61)“Once
you start to see bad debt, you start to see it everywhere, hear it everywhere, feel it
everywhere. This is the real crisis for credit, its real crisis of accumulation. Now debt begins
to accumulate without it. That’s what makes it so bad. We saw it in a step yesterday, some
hips, a smile, the way a hand moved. We heard it in a break, a cut, a lilt, the way the words
leapt. We felt it in the way someone saves the best stuff just to give it to you and then its
gone, given, a debt. They don’t want nothing […] Credit keeps track. Debt forgets.” (62)
![are encouraged to engage with them. Letter grades create a competitive atmosphere that
encourages intellectual dishonesty and a pursuit of things that have only instrumental value
that help “individuals” rather than assist the the “collective”.” We should seek knowledge
but not for “Credit.” On the other hand, “Bad Debt” is me signing approval forms for
students to attend the course after the deadline because of personal and financial reasons.
I’m not seeking to obstruct anyone from Study and I don’t expect any repayment. Bad Debt
is when you show up to class when you don’t have to, to listen, share, with an open heart;
not to score points on people at different stages in their journey or to silence historically
vulnerable voices. That doesn’t mean Bad Debt means taking on the labor of teaching folks
at different stages and I sympathize with how black people (and other people of color) are
unfairly placed in this role. But Bad Debt is about a generosity of spirit. It doesn’t have all
the answers but it wants to save the best stuff for you. You don’t have to pay me back. We
are good. “Credit is a means of privatization and debt a means of socialization.” (61)“Once
you start to see bad debt, you start to see it everywhere, hear it everywhere, feel it
everywhere. This is the real crisis for credit, its real crisis of accumulation. Now debt begins
to accumulate without it. That’s what makes it so bad. We saw it in a step yesterday, some
hips, a smile, the way a hand moved. We heard it in a break, a cut, a lilt, the way the words
leapt. We felt it in the way someone saves the best stuff just to give it to you and then its
gone, given, a debt. They don’t want nothing […] Credit keeps track. Debt forgets.” (62)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)