Today was the last cluster chat for my “American Swagger” summer class. My favorite part was hearing the students talk through what the fall semester looks like given COVID-19 and what the next generation looks like. One of them is starting a voter registration campaign when school starts. This generation – as suggested in the… Continue reading droppin the mic
It is the second to the last day of class. Perhaps they are tired. Some students in my “American Swagger” class struggled to see the complexity in “Delirium,” a vignette in the motion picture Coffee and Cigarettes and ideas we have discussed all semester. In this vignette, one of several in the 2004 Jim Jarmusch… Continue reading the american dream’s complexity
It is always wonderful to have the chance to share my students’ discoveries. Happy to say excerpts from the capstone papers in my “Antebellum America Swagger” (HY 430) course are now up. Because of the pandemic, we are using this digital sharing to give students an opportunity to see each other’s work. They were charged… Continue reading antebellum america swagger site up
My husband always said “Limbs are made for climbing out on.” So, it was with pleasure I told students enrolled in my “Antebellum America Swagger,” a capstone research and writing class at the University of Alabama, these same words. I was not sure if they would understand how the word “swagger,” which has been in… Continue reading from the mouths of brilliant young people….swag
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