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Scott Challener's profile was updated on MLA Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
In 1849, a mob of white supremacists eager to seize anti-slavery mailings attacked the US Post Office in Pendleton, South Carolina. They burned leaflets and letters in a bonfire on the village green to make clear their stance against incendiary ideas. This essay explores the context of these events by considering an initial spate of mailings that…[Read more]
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Scott Challener's profile was updated on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
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Susanna Margaret Ashton's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
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Susanna Margaret Ashton's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
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Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoA brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
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Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoA brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited The New Border (Spring 2021) in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
A brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
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This course is a study of the literature of the U.S.-Mexico border from the 1980s to the present. We begin with Gloria Anzaldúa’s foundational texts, Borderlands / La Frontera, and her landmark feminist anthology, co-edited with Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings by Women of Color. We then consider the legacies and aft…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago
This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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In a hapless attempt to explain how a man living on unemployment who reportedly has no cell
phone, computer or clue could have received a clear majority win in the race for the Democratic
Party’s U.S. Senate nomination, Democratic state Sen. Robert Ford opined that perhaps a
disproportionate number of the black electorate voted for Alvin G…[Read more] -
Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis GIF chronicles the movements of a a formerly enslaved man in New England until the publication of his first memoir in 1825. William Grimes was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and insecurity. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited The Free Travels of William Grimes from 1814 until 1825 on MLA Commons 3 years ago
This GIF chronicles the movements of a runaway slave New England through the publication of his first memoir. He was forced to resettle and wander through Connecticut and Rhode Island because of poverty and security. He is most associated with Litchfield, CT and New Haven CT where he spent the most time and which figure most prominently in his…[Read more]
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Scott Challener's profile was updated on MLA Commons 3 years ago
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