Other Assignments

Slavery in the Contemporary American Imagination

This project was the students’ last assignment in the Slave Narratives and Neo-Slave Narratives course. I created this assignment as a response to our University’s switch to remote learning amid the pandemic. I wanted students to be able to use their creativity in a way that both demonstrated what they learned throughout the semester and how they were thinking about race and race relations today. You can read more about the assignment here. To help them with the presentation aspect, I created this handout. Feel free to use both as a resource, but kindly reference me.

Check out some of the final products. Many students created websites, podcasts, and even a talk show. Here is a group’s website comparing Toni Morrison’s A Mercy to deracination, identity, and religion. You can see some of their final presentations below.

Students have given me permission to share widely.