Search Results for African American

...Staci M. Perryman-Clark In response to the need for additional teacher-research on African American students, this article offers a case study of how one African American student-writer successfully produces expository writing in an Afrocentric first-year writing course at Michigan State University...

... for undergraduates. At the same time, digital humanities initiatives are making it increasingly possible for undergraduates to work hands-on with primary sources, and a number of university-sponsored efforts are being made to process and digitize neglected African American archives. Many of these projects make use...

...Alexis McGee Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy . By Young Vershawn Ashanti , Barrett Rusty , Young-Rivera Y'Shanda , and Lovejoy Kim Brian . New York : Teachers College Press , 2014 . 190 pages . © 2016 by Duke...

...Kyle Grady This essay considers the importance of nonstandard English to fostering a more inclusive and incisive Shakespeare classroom. Grady focuses on his experience as the instructor of a Shakespeare course that occasionally employed African American Vernacular English in its analysis of texts...

...Heidi Elisabeth Bollinger Students entering an introductory survey course on African American literature have uneven background knowledge on the history of slavery in the United States. Given this, one of the key challenges in teaching the slave narrative is helping students appreciate...

... of African American literature in the early twentieth century informs this signal collaboration. Moreover, Christian outlines the benefits of including African American literature in digital humanities projects. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Mule Bone lexomics literary collaboration...

... of a twelve-­year-­old African- ­American boy named Michael, aka Fresh (Sean Nelson), who hopes to save himself and his sister from the violence that saturates his poor Brooklyn neighborhood. Fresh has chosen to be a drug runner for several major deal- ers in his community because this is the only way...

...Tayana L. Hardin This article dwells on the “I” who arrives in the university classroom by offering an earnest assessment of the vulnerabilities that one teacher-scholar of African American literature and culture brings with her into the classroom. Observations unfold by way of a critical...

... of subversive resilience to neoliberalism. Simultaneously accommodating and resistant, this form of resilience has roots in anticolonial, African American, and feminist responses to oppressive conditions. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 curriculum development HBCU writing program...

... strategies of subversive resilience to neoliberalism. Simultaneously accommodating and resistant, this form of resilience has roots in anticolonial, African American, and feminist responses to oppressive conditions. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 curriculum development HBCU writing...

...Stephanie Boone Mosher This article explores how prior experiences influence instructors’ responses to African American English–based writing. The author examines why her reaction to a student essay differed from several colleagues’; she suggests that current standards for college writing leave...

...Fran L. Lassiter The article outlines the use of contemporary hip-hop lyrics to access the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Lassiter’s essay outlines a strategy for tracing the progression and evolution of African American political and social resistance in literature and music. Furthermore...

.... Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega is assistant professor of contemporary American poetry studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She teaches courses in contemporary poetry studies, twentieth-­century American lit- erature, and African American literature, including a senior seminar...

... is divided into three parts: Issues, Themes, Methods, Selected Courses, and Resources. Part 1 has subdivisions. In the first, Beyond the Boundaries of the Ameri- cas, James Ruppert discusses Native American materials; Amy E. Winans, African American texts; Sharon M. Harris, writings by women; Pattie...

... . The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism . New York : Oxford University Press . hooks bell . 2010 . Teaching Critical Thinking . New York : Routledge . Johnson James Weldon . [1921] 1995 . The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man . Mineola, NY : Dover...

.... Lassiter, Guest Editor The Harlem Renaissance remains one of the most productive, influential, and creative periods in American and African American history and culture. Not simply a literary movement, the period signaled a rebirth in national ideology. In The Harlem Renaissance: A Brief...

... culture before the onset of fall term, the university could diminish the dismal dropout rate that curtails the academic careers of so many promising inner-city students, many of them African American and some of them poor. They entered my two composition classes in teams of twenty, grouped according...

... Ethnocentrism.” In Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies , ed. Henry B. Wonham, 43 - 62. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Cashmore, Ellis. 1997 . Review of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie McKay. New...

..., and Song . Westport, CT: Greenwood. Gage, Frances. 1863 . “Sojourner Truth.” Independent [New York], 23 April . Logan, Shirley Wilson. 1995 . With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African American Women . Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Painter...

.... Bridget R. Cooks is currently assistant professor in both the Department of Art History and the Program in African American Studies at Univer- sity of California, Irvine. She has worked at several museums around the country, including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Oak- land...