For this last post, we will read several sermons from late in King’s life and consider how these items from the late 1960s may complicate, nuance, or challenge some of the ways that King has been remembered in public memory since that time. We will also hear from Brian Ward about King’s 1967 visit to […]
For this fifth assignment, we’re considering questions of public memory and history here in Atlanta. The photo above was taken on the Bell Building in downtown Atlanta on Georgia State’s campus. For the last several years, there has been controversy about how to “Save the Bell.” While this post doesn’t ask you to dive into […]
For your fourth post, we’re re-examining British history and public memory through a careful examination of the intersection between Black identity and British identity. Together, our readings and viewings will help us think through the complex relationships of race and nation in historical and contemporary moments. We will also consider how the public memory of […]
For your third blog post, we’re exploring the relationship between Ireland, the UK, and the U.S. South. Reading: Quinlan, Kieran. “Introduction.” Strange Kin: Ireland & the American South. LSU Press, 2005. Listening: “North & South Elsewhere,” About South Podcast. Frederick Douglass writes in his Narrative: “I went one day down on the wharf of Mr. […]
This week we’re reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Watch: https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/mann-symposium/mann-symposium-part4-video.html Supplementary Reading 1: Read and examine the images in Appendix A (page 173-184) on the European editions of Douglass’s narratives Supplementary Reading 2 (select one): Read any one of the Douglass letters written from Scotland in Appendix B Read Item 10 in Appendix […]
This week we’re reading William Wells Brown’s Clotel. Supplementary Reading (select one): “Clotel,” Hereford Times (17 December 1853) — Starts on page 215 “W.W. Brown’s New Work,” National Anti-Slavery Standard 31 December 1853 (Review republished from the London Eastern Star) — Starts on page 218 “Clotel” Anti-Slavery Advocate 2 (January 1854) — Starts on page […]
This is our blog page for the 2020 Spring Break Study Abroad class, American Literature & Human Rights in Newcastle upon Tyne. All of our course writing will be posted here to share with peers, family, and friends. There will also be posts from our Graduate Assistant, Joshua Jackson, about helpful travel trips and things […]