Guest Post: “This South has no real place for me”

by Matthew Teutsch

Today, I want to share a post that Jennifer Morrison, a colleague and friend, shared on Facebook recently. I have not altered her post apart from separating it into paragraphs. Her words speak for themselves. All I want to say is that the statue she references is the statue of General Alfred Mouton that the United Daughters of the Confederacy had erected in 1922.

May 18, 2017 + african american literature, american literature, black panther, comics, don mcgregor, jungle action, kevin trublood, Literature, lloyd lynn, lloyd lynne, make america great again, marvel, marvel comics, monica lynn, monica lynne, panther vs. the klan, t'challa, Uncategorized, wakanda

The Myth of America and The Black Panther in Jungle Action

by Matthew Teutsch

Last post, I wrote about the scene that opens Jungle Action #20 where T’Challa, in full Black Panther costume, and Monica Lynne shop at a grocery store and get attacked but Klan members. The scene, while action packed, draws attention to T’Challa’s humanity and causes the reader to confront racial profiling and surveillance of black bodies by whites, Rebecca Winthrop, along with the rest … Read More The Myth of America and The Black Panther in Jungle Action

May 16, 2017 + black panther, blaxploitation, don mcgregor, jungle action, luke cage, marvel, panther vs. the klan, paul laurence dunbar, ralph ellison, t'challa, Uncategorized, w.e.b. dubois, wakanda

The Black Panther and Racial Profiling in Jungle Action #20

by Matthew Teutsch

In preparation for the February 2018 premier of the Black Panther film, I started to delve into Don McGregor’s incarnation of Black Panther in the revived Jungle Action series from 1972-1976. The reemergence of the series, and the foregrounding of T’Challa took place in correlation with Marvel’s launching of Luke Cage, a series that looked to capitalize on the rise of Blaxploitation films during the … Read More The Black Panther and Racial Profiling in Jungle Action #20

May 11, 2017 + african american literature, alabama literature, american literature, andrew jackson, archive, archives, auburn university, benjamin hawkins, creek, early american literature, elias boudinot, gothic literature, john marrant, Jonathan edwards, Literature, louisiana literature, maroon, mississippi literature, olaudah equiano, seminole, Uncategorized, william apess

Working With Archives in the Literature Classroom

by Matthew Teutsch

This summer, I am teaching an American literature survey curse through 1865. While I have taught this course multiple times, I have been contemplating and incorporating new assignments into the classroom the past couple of times I have taught it. One such assignment calls for students to use digital archives of the Freedom’s Journal to find a an article, summarize it, then tell their … Read More Working With Archives in the Literature Classroom

May 10, 2017 + 10 bands i have seen (one is a lie), african american literature, american literature, caribbean literature, early american literature, frank norris, gothic literature, identity, irish literature, john updike, Literature, louisiana literature, Maximillian Alvarez, mississippi literature, native american literature, Pedagogy, professor, shelia liming, southern literature, Uncategorized, writing

The Facade We Sometimes Wear

by Matthew Teutsch

As a student, I would always sit in class amazed when during a lecture professors would start to rattle off various authors and works that related in some way to the topic we were covering that particular day. I never thought I would be able to reach that same level of knowledge; however, I regularly catch myself in classes doing the same thing that … Read More The Facade We Sometimes Wear

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Guest Post: “This South has no real place for me”

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