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The sketch says the text is about competing discourses of blackness in Jamaica, pushing back against monolithic constructs of blackness in the African diaspora. 

"It’s linearity gives a matter-of-fact feel to how the information is presented and lends to one favouring Thomas’ interpretation as the argument builds upon itself."  No visuals at all. 

Single black drummer (with a snare drum) with glimpses of accompanying marching band. 

"The introduction immediately complicates the assumptions of who has control over the national ideology and the idea of an asymmetrical ideology of blackness in a black nation."

Doesn't include a relay proposal. 

Middle or high school (or undergraduate) activity in which they do a stakeholder mapping sketch, mapping different constructs of blackness (and what catalyzes and corrodes these) -- maybe drawn from their personal experience (if they are Jamaican kids) or from examples from film clips, interview excerpts, short stories, ect. This sketching would graphically bust up monolithic constructs of blackness -- the aim of Thomas's text.