In class
Readings:
- Susan Robertson’s teaching demo:
- Chapters 1-6 from Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- https://nidaulhusna0402.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/everything-i-never-told-you.pdf
- Discussion of Not light, but fire: How to lead meaningful race conversations in the classroom. (link to ebook).
- Reflections: Briefly describe your experience of being in a successful and a not successful race conversation in class.
- Handling sensitive language and ethnic slurs:
- Excerpt from "Do the Right Thing" (1989)
- Kanye West "Gold Digger" (lyrics), "Glee cover"
- English Department's resolution on the use of the n-word in the classroom.
Assignments (Next Class: Teaching World Literature)
- Readings for Sophia Donadio's teaching demo:
- Select texts on colonialism:
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o “Decolonizing the Mind”
- Gabriel García Márquez “The Autumn of the Patriarch”
- James Baldwin “Stranger in a Village”
- Hala Alyan from Hijra “The Letter Home”
- Select texts on colonialism:
- Additional Readings:
- Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
- "A World of Literature"