[This week we start a new semester, one I desperately hope will feel a bit more settled and positive than the last few. To that end, for my annual Fall previews I’ll highlight something I’m especially looking forward to in each class, leading up to a weekend update on my current book project!]
I’ve been
able to teach this class once before, in
Spring 2018, and by far the best part of that semester was the chance to
read for the first time (in many cases) and teach (in almost all cases) so many
phenomenal texts, including the three I highlighted in this
semester recap post. I’ll be teaching them again this semester, now with
the knowledge of how much they speak to our students, so of course I’m very
excited for that chance. But I’m even more excited for us to engage overtly and
centrally, from the first day to the last, with a conversation that has become
far more present over these past 4+ years: the debate
over “Critical Race Theory” and (more genuinely) why and how we should
teach, learn, discuss, and engage histories of race and racism in America. While
a lot of that conversation at the national level is fearmongering, there are at
the same time thoughtful and important ways to ask and answer those questions,
and I couldn’t be more excited to do so with a class of FSU students.
Next
preview post tomorrow,
Ben
PS.
Classes or other things you’re looking forward to this Fall?
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