Month: March 2022

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+ civil rights, comics, critical race theory, Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White, graphic memoir, graphic novels, history, Lila Quintero Weaver

Learning History in Lila Quintero Weaver’s “Darkroom”

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One of the threads weaving its way through my Multicultural American Literature course this semester focuses on the importance of knowing our history, the good and the bad. This thread appears in Lila Quintero Weaver’s Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White at the very beginning of the text and moves throughout. I’ve written some about this before, specifically when Weaver details the Know … Read More Learning History in Lila Quintero Weaver’s “Darkroom”

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+ american history, civil rights, comics, graphic memoir, graphic novels, history, holocaust, jim crow, syllabus

“Jim Crow and the Holocaust” Syllabus

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The study travel trip that a colleague and I planned for Poland didn’t happen, for various reasons. However, one of the students who registered for the trip asked if I could do a directed study based on the Poland trip. I agreed to lead the directed study this summer, and I’ve been thinking, over the past few weeks, how to expand and make the … Read More “Jim Crow and the Holocaust” Syllabus

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“Monsters, Race, and Comics” Syllabus

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about the theme of my fall course. Initially, I wanted to do a course on “neo-slave” narratives, interrogating that term and looking at texts such as Robert Jones, Jr.’s The Prophets, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, and more. While I still want to teach this course, my focus started to shift the more I thought … Read More “Monsters, Race, and Comics” Syllabus

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Conversation with Jennifer Morrison about “Of Love and Dust”

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This semester, I finally decided to teach Ernest Gaines’ Of Love and Dust. For a number of years, I’ve cited Gaines’ 1967 novel as my favorite book, and as I reread it in preparation for this semester, I began to think about it as one of the most important works of the twentieth century American literature. On the surface, I know this sounds like … Read More Conversation with Jennifer Morrison about “Of Love and Dust”

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+ claude mckay, france, frank yerby, james baldwin, jessie fauset

African American Writers in France Syllabus

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As I was finishing up my graduate studies and mailing out countless applications in the hopes of attaining that needle in a haystack tenure track position, I would always think about the possibility of leading a study travel trip. This year, we planned a trip to Poland; however, due to various circumstances, the trip will not take place. However, that has not deterred my … Read More African American Writers in France Syllabus

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