Connections and Contrasts between “Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Superbowl performance, and Sunni Patterson’s “We Made It.”

Authors

Crystal Endsley Taylor, CUNY John Jay CollegeFollow

Document Type

Activity or Lab

Publication Date

2025

Abstract

This assignment by Dr. Crystal Endsley Taylor uses all Open, "low-tech" solutions to create an active learning module that prompts students to pause, retrieve, re-state and reconsider several texts, including The Politics of Performance Space” by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 Superbowl performance, and Sunni Patterson’s “We Made It.” It was made as part of a workshop on OER-based Active Learning at John Jay College in 2025.

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CUNY OER Funding

CUNY OER Initiative