Month: September 2019

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+ bitter root, chuck brown, cyborg, david f walker, ethnogothic, John Jennings, sanford green, truth: red, white, and black

The Ethnogothic

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Recently, I finally had the chance to read all of David Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Green’s Bitter Root vol. 1. In “Deep Roots/Rich Soil: Race, Horror and the Ethnogothic” (a back matter essay to Bitter Root), John Ira Jennings lays out what him and Stanford Carpenter call the “EthnoGothic,” a term I want to look at some today in relation to Bitter Root … Read More The Ethnogothic

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+ captain america, comics, consuela francis, isaiah bradley, kyle baker, marvel, marvel comics, robert morales, truth: red, white, and black, world war ii

Absolution in “Truth: Red, White, and Black”

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A few weeks ago, I taught Robert Morales and Kyle Baker’s Truth: Red, White, and Black. While I had read Truth before, and written about it some, teaching it opened up new ways for me to approach the text. In the blog post I wrote about Truth two years ago, I focused on the ways that Morales and Baker “give voice to those whose … Read More Absolution in “Truth: Red, White, and Black”

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+ african american literature, ernest j gaines, frank yerby, hal jacobs, lillian e smith, lillian smith: breaking the silence, Mark twain, Piedmont College, southern history, southern literature

Current and Future Projects at the Lillian E. Smith Center

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Over the past few weeks, I have been settling into my new position as the Director of the Lillian E. Smith Center (LES Center). During this process, I have started to read more of Smith’s work and learned more about her life and social justice work, specifically through the Laurel Falls Camp and during the Civil Rights movement. There is a lot I could … Read More Current and Future Projects at the Lillian E. Smith Center

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