Reading Hip Hop: Black Lives, Black Protest
This week’s playlist from my course, Reading Hip Hop, provides a sample of music we engage in our conversations about Black Lives and Black Protest. Students also watched the film, Do the Right Thing, and discussed readings by Robin D.G….
On Teaching What Is Not Valued, But Is Still Needed
Teaching black literature is hard, when generations of students have been taught things like: Racism only exists when black people are present. If black people only loved themselves, racism would go away. Wealthy, white women in the South and black…
Staging a Final Exam: Suzan-Lori Parks’s “In the Blood” as Text and Performance
In the Fall of 2014, I taught ENGL 339: Modern and Contemporary American Literature (one of my favorite courses to teach here at NJCU). For the final exam, students were assigned roles in Suzan-Lori Parks’s “In the Blood.” We had…
Teaching With Pinterest: Developing a Collaborative and Interactive Final Exam
ENGL 215 Final Exam, Sula Pinterest Board (Annotated). Spring 2015, New Jersey City University. This past Spring, I presented my students with a new option: they would design and conduct a collaborative final exam. Not surprisingly, they were freaked out….