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Tag Archives: classroom
Booker T. Washington Checks Out of a Hotel…
1903 was a particularly difficult year for African Americans, as described in Douglas Blackmon’s book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. In that year alone, at least 85 African Americans were … Continue reading
Posted in African American Lit, History, Teaching
Tagged Black, Booker T. Washington, classroom, Douglas Blackmon, Indianapolis, peonage, race, racism, teaching
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Teaching Angels in America
One of my favorite texts to teach is Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, which comes at the end of my 20th c. American Literature course. I use the text to introduce postmodernism as the last major literary style/genre we study, … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching, Theatre
Tagged Angels in America, classroom, Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, teaching, theatre, Tony Kushner
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Dealing with a Campus “Incident”
As a college professor and before that, a graduate student, I have long expected that at some point, I would experience a campus incident. By “incident,” I mean a shooting or other serious campus-wide emergency. It’s not that I lay … Continue reading
Information Literacy
I was recently pointed toward this short blog post about the difficulties of assuming information literacy in our students, whether they are of a younger generation who has grown up with iPhones and easy access to the internet, or whether … Continue reading
Posted in Academia
Tagged classroom, information literacy, teaching, technology, website
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