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“100 Rifles” and the Late 1960s: Part II

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On Tuesday, I wrote about 100 Rifles (1969) as a commentary on the cultural moment that it originally appeared within. Today, I want to continue that discussion by briefly looking at couple of more scenes from the film that should be examined. Continuing from where the previous post left off, this post will look at Lyedecker and Herrera’s conversation with the priest as they … Read More “100 Rifles” and the Late 1960s: Part II

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“100 Rifles” and the Late 1960s: Part 1

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Last week, I read a post on Shadow and Act about the 1969 western 100 Rifles,  film based off of Robert MacLeod’s The Californio (1966). In his piece for Shadow and Act, Sergio Mims discusses Jim Brown’s role in the film, the fact that he portrayed such a strong character, and the interracial relationship that blossomed between Brown’s and costar Raquel Welch’s characters. After … Read More “100 Rifles” and the Late 1960s: Part 1

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Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Nelse Hatton’s Vengeance” and the Plantation Tradition

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In Tuesday’s post, I wrote about Charles Chesnutt’s “The Sheriff’s Children” and the plantation tradition. Today, I want to extend that conversation to include Paul Laurence Dunbar, an author who many have painted as an accomadationist that perpetuated African American stereotypes and played to the plantation tradition. However, as I argue elsewhere on this blog, Dunbar worked to subvert that tradition through his writing. … Read More Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Nelse Hatton’s Vengeance” and the Plantation Tradition

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Charles Chesnutt and the Plantation Tradition

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Last week, I wrote about race in two local stories by George Washington Cable and Kate Chopin. Over the next couple of posts, I want to look at the ways that authors such as Charles Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar work to counter the plantation tradition and specifically the continued perpetuation of an idealized South during the latter part of the nineteenth century and … Read More Charles Chesnutt and the Plantation Tradition

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Collaborative Project for Literature Classroom

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Last semester, I had students construct presentations of terms and historical events in my Early American Literature survey course. I have a posts on the assignment itself and on some of the projects that students created. This semester, I am tweaking that assignment in a couple of ways. Rather than having students present on specific terms and presenting during the last week of class, … Read More Collaborative Project for Literature Classroom

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