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In Cassie’s earlier blog post, Navigating Unscripted Moments, she describes a moment in class when she was discussing Harriet Jacobs’...
In my previous blog post, I recounted a situation involving a colleague. During class, this colleague tried to navigate a situation in...
In my previous blog post, I described a student who walked out of my classroom in tears after viewing traumatic content. I referenced...
*Note: portions of this post (the content at the end) are taken from Inclusive College Classrooms: Teaching Methods for Diverse Learners,...
I was having coffee with a colleague a few days ago when she shared with me an especially tense moment that occurred in her early...
When I discuss the complex, sometimes confusing nature of microaggressions with students, I often begin with an anecdote of when I was...
I have the honor and great pleasure of teaching introductory courses in early African American literature at the University of Alabama....
I’ve often found myself in classes that require multiple teaching interventions in a single session. Because the literature I teach...
Among other things, I teach courses in early American literature. And I am always mindful to approach the literature from a multicultural...
A few years ago I was teaching George Orwell’s 1984, a novel that always spurs students to make parallels to contemporary politics and...
“I feel like you shouldn’t be offended by that.” “I don’t see why that’s racist. I don’t even see color.” “This essay feels like reverse...
It was Fall 2010. I was fresh out of graduate school, settling into a tenure-track job at a research university in the southern United...