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TC Race and Ethnicity Studies

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  • Profile picture of Habiba Ibrahim

    Habiba Ibrahim started the topic Self-Nominations & Suggestions | TC Race & Ethnicity Studies Forum EC in the discussion Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 1 day ago

    Every year, Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. This year, the Race and Ethnicity Studies Forum executive committee seeks self-nominations and suggestions for a new committee member from our membership so as to allow for broad participation. Our hope is that broad participation will ensure diversity of…[Read more]

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    David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 weeks ago

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    David Palmer created the doc MLA Convention Session on Modern American Drama and Racism in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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    John Gruesser deposited Humanities in Five: A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line PowerPoint in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week ago

    Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs wrote nearly fifty books and pamphlets, including five novels, nearly 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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    John Gruesser deposited Poe’s Last Jest: The Magazine Prison-House, Colonial Exploitation, and Revenge in “Hop-Frog” in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    As I have done in connection with another tale about vengeance Edgar Allan Poe published two and a half years earlier, “The Cask of Amontillado,” in what follows I offer a generalized biographical interpretation of the 1849 story “Hop-Frog,” linking it to Poe’s February 1845 essay “Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House” and his September 184…[Read more]

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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) Text in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Based in the South throughout his career, the Black Baptist minister Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933) 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…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of John Gruesser

    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 Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Based 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]

  • Profile picture of Allison Margaret Bigelow

    Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic 3 tenure-track jobs: Afro-Brazil, Black Diasporas, Race & Indigeneity (UVA) in the discussion Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Dear 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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    Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Job Post: Visiting Assistant Prof of English in Multi-Ethnic Literature in the discussion Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 months, 4 weeks ago

    Dear colleagues,

    Please share this job post with your networks!

    Many thanks,

    Elena

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    https://jobs.bucknell.edu/en-us/job/497067/visiting-assistant-professor-of-english-in-multiethnic-literature

    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]

  • Profile picture of Allison Margaret Bigelow

    Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies (UVA) in the discussion Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    Dear colleagues,

    Please help us share the news with early career scholars in your networks. Maltyox chawe’/Thank you very much! — Allison. You can find the original job ad here: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Tenure-track-Assistant-Professor—Native-American-and-Indigenous-Studies_R0030413. I’ve also pasted i…[Read more]

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    Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    The Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]

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    Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas in the discussion Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago

    Dear colleagues,

    I’m writing to ask for your help in spreading the word about a search for an Associate or advanced Assistant Professor of Black Diasporas in the Américas, to be a joint appointment in the Carter G. Woodson Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University…[Read more]

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    Gabrielle Dean started the topic Textual Scholarship 2021 conference "Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions" in the discussion Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Please consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats.

    The Society hopes to attract participation in this conference from…[Read more]

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    Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    In an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]

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    Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month ago

    Don’t forget that MLA elections close today!

    Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.

    https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections

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    Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today

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    John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months ago

    Does the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.

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    Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago

    https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/african-american/

     

    Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]

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    Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago

    Submit 300-word abstracts for an In Memoriam Panel celebrating and critically engaging with the works and legacies of recently departed writers and scholars to jervette@gmail.com by April 6.

    LLC African American Forum

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    Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group Group logo of TC Race and Ethnicity StudiesTC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago

    Global Indigeneity
    Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
    Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 Mar…[Read more]

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