Week 12: Teaching Diversity and Anti Racist Pedagogy

In class

Readings:

Susan Robertson’s teaching demo:
- Chapters 1-6 from Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- https://nidaulhusna0402.files.wordpress.com/2019/06/everything-i-never-told-you.pdf
Discussion of Not light, but fire: How to lead meaningful race conversations in the classroom. (link to ebook).
- Reflections: Briefly describe your experience of being in a successful and a not successful race conversation in class.
- Handling sensitive language and ethnic slurs:
  - Excerpt from “Do the Right Thing” (1989)
  - Kanye West “Gold Digger” (lyrics), “Glee cover“
  - English Department’s resolution on the use of the n-word in the classroom.

Assignments (Next Class: Teaching World Literature)

Readings for Sophia Donadio’s teaching demo:
- Select texts on colonialism:
  - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o “Decolonizing the Mind”
  - Gabriel García Márquez “The Autumn of the Patriarch”
  - James Baldwin “Stranger in a Village”
  - Hala Alyan from Hijra “The Letter Home”
Additional Readings:
- Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote“
- “A World of Literature“

By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.

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