Category: critical race theory

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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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+ critical race theory, education, georgia, higher education, legislation, Pedagogy, politics

Open Letter to Georgia Senators on SB 377

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“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future.” — Frederick Douglass What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852) The proposed Senate Bill 377 serves as nothing more than a coded bill aimed at limiting the dissemination of information to students, faculty, and staff, and to the stifling of educational inquiry in the … Read More Open Letter to Georgia Senators on SB 377

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+ black reconstruction, bossier massacre, chuck brown, critical race theory, david f walker, frank yerby, intersectionality, religion, sanford green

Year in Round Up: Part I

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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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