I started Interminable Rambling in August 2015. On this site, I provide reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy. Interminable Rambling arose out of the blog I maintained for the Ernest J Gaines Center. There, I wrote about items in the center’s archives, Gaines’ works, and texts that related to Gaines and Louisiana. When I moved on from the center, I started Interminable Rambling as a way to maintain a writing schedule.
As a result of Executive Order 9066, the United States government abducted George Takei and his family, taking them to a concentration camp in Rohwer, Arkansas. They took a train to Arkansas, and during the trip, whenever they entered a town, the soldiers guarding them on board the train would tell them to shut shades so…
At least once a year, I assign an unessay project and essay in my classes. I’ve written about this numerous times, and while I am always nervous about what the students will produce, because fear and apprehension keep them from really leaning into the project, I end up standing in awe at what the students end…
It has been a few years since I have taught an American literature course from colonialism to 1865. This semester, I am doing just that, and I am again thinking about the ways that I structure this course. I have always organized this course, and others, around conversations, taking Kenneth Burke’s “parlor metaphor” to heart…
Over the past couple of weeks, starting with the news of Rachel Nicole Good’s murder and continuing to the current protests against ICE and the ruling of medical examiner in Texas that ruled that Gerald Lunas Campos, detained at an ICE facility in Texas, was murdered by a guard who performed a chokehold on him, I’ve…
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