CLPC Sessions at the 2020 MLA Annual Convention in Seattle
by339. Keywords for the Future, 3:30 PM–5:15 PM Jan 10, WSCC – 6A 527. Critical Pedagogies: Precarity, Contingency, and Professional Practice, 12:00 PM–1:15 PM Jan…
Critical Pedagogies
Critical Pedagogies is a space that brings together scholarship, experiences, threads, resources, and comments about teaching the literatures of people of color. The forum engages pedagogy critically by focusing on scholarship and strategies for teaching the literatures of people of color, but it’s also a site that calls for critical engagement when teaching students of color by focusing on our practices, experiences, methods, and challenges. Critical Pedagogies, in other words, balances the critical importance of teaching students of color alongside the important cultural critiques our literatures generate in and outside of the classroom.
On Cheung and Yogi, Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography by Denise Cruz
byIn 1988 the Modern Language Association published Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, edited by King-Kok Cheung and Stan Yogi. The book itself is fairly…
Black Literature Matters
bySession #223 at the 2018 MLA Annual Convention Presided by Jesse Alemán, University of New Mexico Selected as a Presidential Theme panel, CLPC session…
Teaching Social Justice in a New Era of Anger Mismanagement
byEarlier this year, Presidential Teaching Fellow Dr. Jesse Alemán delivered a keynote address at the Center for Teaching and Learning’s “Success in the Classroom Conference” focusing…
Critical Pedagogy on the Margins: Teaching Chicana/o Literature in Rural New Mexico
by“Teaching Chicana/o Literature in Community College: Social, Ethnic, and Linguistic Hybridity in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God” explores the importance of teaching ethnic literature at community colleges, and considers the social importance of Ana Castillo’s So Far From God (1993) to Southwest learners. In a time when minority education programs are being threatened by budget cuts, and are rapidly being displaced/replaced by more fiscally “lucrative” certificates and departments, Castillo’s novel demonstrates the contemporary relevance and cultural currency of traditional folklore to small communities.