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John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line (Oxford University Press 2022) PowerPoint in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoBased in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, almost all of which he issued through his own publishing companies. Griggs was a founder of American Baptist Theological Seminary, which several Civil Rights Movement leaders attended in the 1950s.…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Violencia e identidades: Elmer Mendoza y la creación de una saga detectivesca in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe portrayal of narcotrafficking in the novels of Elmer Mendoza.
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Lorena Gauthereau started the topic Call for proposals: USLDH-Mellon Grants-in-Aid in the discussion
US Latinx DH on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThe University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program is a digital scholarship/research undertaking to provide training and research on US Latino recovered materials. Proposals must draw from recovered primary and derivative sources produced by Latinas/os in what is now the United States, dating from the Colonial Period to 1980…[Read more]
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Joseph R. Millichap deposited James Agee, Frances Wickes, and The Morning Watch as Shadowy Autobiography in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoJames Agee’s complicated life and complex work have elicited varied critical responses, but none thus far by way of the writer’s intriguing relationship with his sometime analyst Frances Wickes. I believe Agee’s autobiographical writings prove both intertextual with and influenced by Wickes’s work, especially in regard to her novel and to The Mor…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic 3 tenure-track jobs: Afro-Brazil, Black Diasporas, Race & Indigeneity (UVA) in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Please help spread the word about 3 tenure-track positions related to race and ethnicity at UVA. I am on the search committee for the first two, Afro Brazilian Studies and Black Diasporas of the Américas, and am happy to take questions about both positions. I’ve been asked to share the third link (Race & Indigeneity,…[Read more]
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Katharine Lemessy started the topic CFP: Open Educational Resources in Caribbean Studies in the discussion
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoCFP: Open Educational Resources in Caribbean Studies
dLOC OER Project website: https://dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/oer/
Call for Proposals 2022-2023 (English) Link to PDF
Convocatoria de propuestas 2022-2023 (Español) Enlace a PDF
Appel à projets 2022-2023 (Français) Lien vers le PDF
Submit proposals by March 15, 2023 to[Read more]
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Lorena Gauthereau started the topic Book Bans and the Conservative Critique of Critical Race Theory (Virtual event) in the discussion
US Latinx DH on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoBook Bans and the Conservative Critique of Critical Race Theory: What’s Really Going On? (Virtual)
Wednesday , November 16, 2022, 12:00PM to 1:15PM (EST) <br aria-hidden=”true” />RSVP: https://event.newschool.edu/onlinebookbansandtheconservati
Join leading scholars, practitioners, and intellectuals as they discuss new challenges to intellectu…[Read more]
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Molly D. Appel deposited Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures in the group
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoLatinx/o/a writing has existed long before 20th century state policies and publishing markets created the category we recognize today as “Latino/a literature.” This course will focus on the literary and cultural production of writers from the era of initial colonization through Latin American independence and the 19th century actions fueled by the…[Read more]
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Roopika Risam started the topic September News from DEFCon! in the discussion
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoPlease check out our September newsletter! If you want to join our email list, please fill out the form on our website!
We hope to see you soon at one of our upcoming events, including our DEFCon Speaker Series talks or our DEFCon Reading Group!
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Gisely Colon Lopez uploaded the file: Mapping Puerto Rican and Latino Studies to
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis syllabus is my first official attempt to scaffold the integration of mapping digital tools (ZeeMaps) as a way of mapping digital archives- and enhancing the teaching and learning experience.
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThis article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited “‘You cannot assimilate Indian ghosts’ : a magical realist reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn The Night Watchman (2020), Louise Erdrich continues to blur the lines between history and fiction as she has done in several of her novels. Erdrich introduces the reader to several magical elements that appear to be entirely real: two ghosts, a dog that talks, and an unearthly powwow with Jesus as one of the dancers. The main objective of this…[Read more]
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Minni Sawhney deposited Surmounting Borders, The Corridos of Jenni Rivera in the group
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoRanchera music on the U.S. Mexican Border
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Post: Visiting Assistant Prof of English in Multi-Ethnic Literature in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
Please share this job post with your networks!
Many thanks,
Elena
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Bucknell University’s English Department seeks to hire a visiting assistant professor of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US. The one-year r…[Read more]
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Patrick Chura started the topic Call for Essays on African American Literature and Culture in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe non-profit digital scholarly database The Literary Encyclopedia was founded in 1998 to provide a scholarly online resource for university-level teaching and research. We are in the process of expanding our offerings in the field of African American Literature and Culture.
We’re interested in commissioning reference articles (2,000-…[Read more]
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Tania María Ríos Marrero started the topic Please share your thoughts on Open Educational Resources in Caribbean Studies! in the discussion
Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoespañol más abajo | français ci-dessous
Dear colleagues,
This email is an invitation to participate in a survey about open educational resources (OER) in Caribbean Studies. This survey is being conducted by Perry Collins and Tania M. Ríos Marrero on behalf of the Digital Library of the Caribbean/University of Flo…[Read more]
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Alejandro Aguilar replied to the topic Posters: XVI Recovery Conference in the discussion
US Latinx DH on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoApologies, for some reason by original upload failed twice.
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