I am looking forward to Spring Break, or the chance to literally slow down. The idea of slowness is on my mind because my Antebellum America class is participating in Slow Art Day on April 2. Aware of how one cannot just make the creative muse emerge, today I gave them an alternate assignment. Instead… Continue reading spring break, or on slowing down literally
I am off to campus to teach. Wearing my red high-top Converse as a homage to one of the protagonists in historian Tiya Miles’ The Cherokee Rose: A Novels of Gardens and Ghosts. My Antebellum America students will be tasked this semester with thinking through how various people make claims to power in the years… Continue reading off to teach…red converse and all
It is always wonderful using a reading written by a colleague. This week, students enrolled in my “Antebellum America” class will visit Moundville Archaelogical Park and ponder what power looks like with preColumbian indigenous people who lived in Alabama and antebellum Cherokee slaveholder Joseph Vann, as offered in a historical study by historian Tiya Miles, in… Continue reading musings
I am so looking forward to an upcoming meeting with my “Gender, Race and Urban Space” graduate students. After Spring Break, we turn to Tiya Miles’ recently published historical study on Detroit. Last fall, I told Tiya, a cherished colleague, about how her book helped me see why I felt strong as a woman of… Continue reading Detroit days meet important monograph
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