Category: black reconstruction

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“We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans”: Bossier Massacre Graphic Text

Whenever I have a course that focuses on comics or graphic narratives, I usually have students create their own graphic text. For this assignment, students have the choice of either doing a script or an actual, completed graphic text. They can work solo or together, use photos, and essentially approach the assignment in any way they want to approach it. This semester, I assigned this … Read More “We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make pleasant reading for Americans”: Bossier Massacre Graphic Text

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Year in Round Up: Part I

It’s that time of year again to talk about some of my favorite posts from 2020. Usually, I merely pull from my blog and discuss my top five favorite pieces; however, this time I’m going to cast a little wider net and talk about some of the pieces I published in other venues alongside posts from Interminable Rambling. A lot has happened in 2020, … Read More Year in Round Up: Part I

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Reconstruction and Whiteness in Frank Yerby’s “The Vixens”

In “How and Why I Write the Costume Novel” (1959), Frank Yerby discusses what he terms the “costume novel,” a novel that is essentially “light, pleasant fiction.” Rather than working to persuade his readers and protest social injustice, Yerby states that his job as a novelist “is to entertain. If he aspires to instruct, or to preach, he has chosen his profession unwisely.” While … Read More Reconstruction and Whiteness in Frank Yerby’s “The Vixens”