A notebook of compositions by Sierra Taylor

Sierra Taylor is earning a graduate degree in social work at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She has produced various whiteboard animations for African American literary studies.

Entries

2024

• December 23: Terms for novels by Black writers

• August 10: The process of making a "Battle Royal" animatic

• July 18: Amiri Baraka and Black World

• July 5: The Big Seven  

• May 30: A Brief Timeline of Neo-slave Narratives

• May 14: Words of Fire animation

• April 18: Casting Viola Davis (whiteboard animation)

• April 17: The Art and Artmaking of Kennedy Killion-Johnson

• April 17: Making a pair of Handcrafted Boots

• March 31: Hyphens & African American Novels

• March 31: Black, Black American, African American Novelists

• March 1: African American Literary History and the Contemporary Problem

• February 28: Black Women Writers, 1970 - 1995

• February 22: Black Fiction and New York City, Part 2

• February 22: Black Fiction and New York City, Part 1

• February 13: Receptions of African American Novels

• February 10: A Memorable Scene from Batman and the Outsiders 

• February 6: Classifying Black Novels

2023

• December 8: The most magical thing that comes from reading fiction

• December 8: Reading fiction, endless possibilities

• December 8: from Toni Morrison's Beloved

• December 8: from Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist 

• August 13: Editions of Frederick Douglass's Narrative

• August 13: Frederick Douglass, Aunt Hester, and the Narrative

• June 28: When collegiate black men read short stories

• May 6: The opening of Frederick Douglass's Narrative

• May 6: A Pertinent Question by Frederick Douglass

• May 6: When Eugene B. Redmond wondered about the meaning of a black poem

• May 6: Sierra Taylor on language skills

• May 6: Victoria Lefler on dance and storytelling

• April 21: Jetpacks & the Spivey production

• April 16: Sierra Taylor and Nicole Dixon discuss Black Casting project 

• April 14: Casting Bias

• April 14: Casting Cora

• April 5: Casting across black diaspora

• April 5: Preparing questions for Dometi Pongo

• April 5: When Dometi Pongo was a student at SIUE

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• An Extended Notebook on the works of writers & artists