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Sarah Westbay edited the blog post Demand Opportunities: Risks and Rewards in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
Today in class we experienced our first demand opportunity. Our discussion initially consisted of sharing our own interpretations of what we thought was being offered to us. Several people expressed concerns about our lack of having a demand available at this exact moment in class. Others offered the solution that we should have our first demand…[Read more]
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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, 7 months ago
As 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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Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Epigenetics and Eating Disorders in the group American Studies: 6 years, 7 months ago
Hello everyone!
I suppose I will be the first to post in our class (English 101), as I haven’t seen posts from anyone else in our class (though correct me if I’m wrong!*UPDATE: I see someone posted at the exact same time as I did!) Blogging is definitely new to me, so bear with me as I attempt to do this somewhat correctly and actually catch…[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: 7 years ago
I 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: 7 years ago
Amid 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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Melissa Rao wrote a new blog post Big Family Trees in the group American Studies: 7 years, 1 month ago
When we first started reading The Turner House I was immediately hit with a rather strong sense of déjà vu as I came across in the paratext the family tree that Angela Flournoy prefaced her novel with. I took no […]
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Erik Mebust edited the blog post Pressure to Spread in the group American Studies: 7 years, 2 months ago
Before I dive into the meat of this blog post, I want to quickly introduce myself and offer myself as a resource to the class. Like Jenna, the material I’ve studied in my other major has provided me with a knowledge base that some of you might find useful once we delve into some of the more technical causes of the 2008 housing crisis. I’m an…[Read more]
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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: 7 years, 3 months ago
Posted 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 […]