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Beth McCoy edited the blog post Sower What About L.A. Podcast? in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoIn Spring 2020, I taught “Expulsion and the Housing Crisis,” a SUNY Geneseo literature course contemplating narratives flowing into and out of the 2008 global financial crisis.
Students read William Sha […]
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Beth McCoy joined the group
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Beth McCoy joined the group
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Beth McCoy commented on the post, A Blog Interlude, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 5 years agoThe asterisked line made me weep with laughter. Thank you…
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Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Your Favorite Rocks! in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 3 months agoHere are the results of yesterday’s exercise responding to what turned out to be the very complex question “What’s your favorite rock?”
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post A Brief Guide to the Many Traps of Octavia Butler’s Fiction in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 11 months agoThe students of ENGL 431/Octavia Butler and Social Ties have requested that I post their collaborative statement that they conceptualized and crafted independently of the instructor. Click here for a version wi […]
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio: Out in the Open in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 2 months agoAs Erin Herbst‘s and Brianne Briggmann‘s posts indicate, we along with Ron Herzman are taking the first steps towards a collaborative essay exploring how Toni Morrison’s Jazz recapitulates and revises Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio.
The project is an offshoot of Fall 2016’s Toni Morrison’s Trilogy course where the class concentrated on the r…[Read more]
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post What harm can innovations like AirBnB do? in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 7 months agoI’m Facebook friends with a nun who serves in New Orleans, and it just so happens that today she posted regarding this awareness-and-action campaign about how what AirBnb whole-house rentals can do to neighborhoods, especially historically black neighborhoods targeted for gentrification in Katrina’s wake.
As it’s JazzFest time, many folks s…[Read more]
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Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Space to live and credit score in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 7 months agoAt the request of an anonymous community member, I share this important post.
A heads up to all of you: Beth wasn’t kidding when she said that landlords check your credit score. A friend of mine was looking for r […] -
Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Here comes the Atlantic (again) in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 7 months agoSubtitled “Along parts of the East Coast, the entire system of insuring coastal property is beginning to break down,” this new New York Times article examines how rising sea levels are creating another kind of […]
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post Two paths to dehumanizing human beings in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 7 months agoI was just reading this interview with Matthew Desmond, whose book Evicted just won a Pulitzer. I haven’t read the book yet and am hoping it’s not in the tradition of Alice Goffman’s On the Run.
But given Dominion‘s deep and complicated human characters, this line really jumped out at me:
“There are two ways to dehumanize: the first is to s…[Read more]
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Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Sometimes when I can’t find something, something equally useful pops to the surface in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 8 months agoI was trying to find Mother Jones article from about 10 years ago because it made a claim that when a house (or apartment, or any dwelling) approaches about 2800 square feet (I think), it becomes impossible to […]
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post “Anabaptist Content” in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 8 months agoAmid a welcome uptick in posts (all quite thoughtful!), I thought you’d be interested in “White supremacy and class privilege in Detroit,” an essay from The Mennonite, an online publication that in offering “Anabaptist content” invites connections with both Flournoy’s The Turner House and Morrison’s A Mercy.
From the beginning of the es…[Read more]
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post “Metaphor is Hard Science” by Valerie Prince in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 8 months agoAs we are listening to the This American Life episode “Toxie” during class, and as I’ve asked you to attend to all the literary concepts roiling and churning through the episode, I invite you to read Dr. Valerie Prince’s brief but important essay “Metaphor is Hard Science.”
A key passage:
Rather than standing around with its lip…
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post Emotions, Growth, and Writing? in the group
Critical Writers: 6 years, 8 months agoI remembered our “Bloodchild”-spawned conversation about inoculating ourselves in the face of fear, worry, and anxiety when I came across this Scientific American article titled “Negative Emotions are Key to Well-Being.”
Eudaemonic approaches, on the other hand, emphasize a sense of meaning, personal growth and understanding of the self—goals th…
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post Descartes/Student Code of Conduct Brainstorming in the group
Critical Writers: 6 years, 9 months agoA record of our brainstorming from Wednesday, 2/15.
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post Session Proposal: “Real life” across the curriculum in the group
Metagogy: 6 years, 10 months ago(Beth McCoy, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English) While meeting last semester with faculty, students expressed that they wanted instructors throughout all the disciplines to make room in their courses for conversation about “real-life” issues, especially those related to justice and power.
Given training, course content demands, and jus…
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post ICYMI in the group
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Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post An invitation to cross-check in the group
Critical Writers: 6 years, 10 months agoNormally, as recommended by the how-to-blog-here post, I’d embed links in my own text.
But I’m doing something different here because I want to draw attention to what this link itself says the article is going […]
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Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Monday’s Archive (but don’t overlook Brianne’s post below) in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 10 months agoPosted after the jump in all its low-tech, messy glory is the archive from yesterday’s discussion identifying possible themes with which the art this semester might grapple. Don’t let this archive obscure Br […]
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