Category: african american literature

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Archives and Collaborative Documents in the Literature Classroom

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Last Tuesday, I wrote about some of the ways I have been implementing technology into my composition and literature classrooms. Today, I want to speak about a couple of more ways that I am incorporating the Internet and Web 2.0 tools into the literature classroom.

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Colin Kaepernick, the National Anthem, and Progress?

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Over the past few weeks, I have seen numerous responses to Colin Kaepernick’s demonstrations during the National Anthem. Last week, an article even appeared on ESPN pointing out which players chose to demonstrate during the anthem in week three of the NFL season by kneeling, raising their fists in protest, or through some other means. Editorials and opinion pieces have appeared in various media … Read More Colin Kaepernick, the National Anthem, and Progress?

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Harriet Jacobs and the Cult of True Womanhood

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Frank Yerby countering the Cult of True Womanhood in his “costume novels.” (An extended version of this piece can be found on the Unlikely Stories website.) Today, I want to take a moment and explore a nineteenth-century text that seeks to counter the view that black women could not live up to the ideals set forth … Read More Harriet Jacobs and the Cult of True Womanhood

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Early American Literature Survey Syllabus

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Note: Here is the syllabus I am discussing. This semester, I’m teaching an Early American Literature survey course (through 1865). Typically, I have approached this course chronologically, having students read Native American creation stories, Christopher Columbus, William Bradford, and so on, in that order until we reached Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. However, this semester, I am trying something different. Instead of assigning students … Read More Early American Literature Survey Syllabus

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False Reporting in Jeremy Love’s “Bayou”

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As usual, a trip to the library yielded another comic that caught my attention. Unlike Southern Bastards, Jeremy Love’s Bayou (2009) focuses on the fictional town of Charon, MS, in 1933. More directly than the first volume of Southern Bastards, as well, Bayou centers on race relations in the Deep South during the early part of the twentieth century, all the while inserting fantastical … Read More False Reporting in Jeremy Love’s “Bayou”

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