... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...Alexander Fyfe Abstract This essay argues that The Palm‐Wine Drinkard ([1952] 2014), a tale of a quest through the African bush by the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, does important decolonial work and is therefore an excellent candidate for inclusion on a literature syllabus that aims to introduce...

... that they're all trying to break into each others' markets. In the end, he turns these negative and violent forces against each other and then enters the Witness Protection Program. The social commentary in the film is paramount since it highlights the disturbing cultural reasons why a twelve–year-old African...

...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...

... 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...

... Survey .” In Alberti 1995, 119 -207. Dangarembga, Tsitsi. 1989 . Nervous Conditions . Seattle: Seal Press. ———. 1992 . Interview by Jane Wilkinson. In Talking with African Writers , ed. Jane Wilkinson, 188 -98. London: James Currey. Goebel, Bruce A. 1995 . “ Imagining Difference: Textual...

.... 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...

... capacity to stand in as a collective African response to European colonization and misrepresentation. Its publication during the massive decolonization of British Africa reinforced the idealistic notion that literary self-representation is connected to political self-determina- tion. Moreover, by using...

... details his experiences teaching American studies in Sene- gal, Burkina Faso, and Togo, where he discovered an extraordinary emphasis on black American writing in the university system. This phenomenon corre- sponds, Nicholls writes, to a West African fascination with and appropriation of African American...

... experiences teaching American studies in Sene- gal, Burkina Faso, and Togo, where he discovered an extraordinary emphasis on black American writing in the university system. This phenomenon corre- sponds, Nicholls writes, to a West African fascination with and appropriation of African American popular culture...

... details his experiences teaching American studies in Sene- gal, Burkina Faso, and Togo, where he discovered an extraordinary emphasis on black American writing in the university system. This phenomenon corre- sponds, Nicholls writes, to a West African fascination with and appropriation of African American...