{"id":2569,"date":"2021-04-30T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2021-04-30T09:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T15:49:44","slug":"associate-professor-publishes-pedagogical-essay-on-black-realism-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2021\/04\/30\/associate-professor-publishes-pedagogical-essay-on-black-realism-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Professor Publishes Pedagogical Essay on &#8220;Black Realism Matters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a recent pedagogical essay in&nbsp;<em>American Realism &amp; Naturalism&nbsp;<\/em>53.2 (Winter 2021), titled &#8220;Black Realism Matters; or, A Syllabus is Still a Terrible Thing to Waste,&#8221; Assoc. Prof. Kathryn Wichelns argues that the movement-and-era boundaries that delimit many American literature courses function as a form of structural racism, as African American writing often does not conform to traditional, white periodizations. Dr. Wichelns suggests that centering Black writing in American literature courses&#8211;and perhaps particularly those courses focused on the late nineteenth century&#8211;is necessary to helping students understand the ways that ideas about race and racialization inform US writing and cultural production, regardless of authorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent pedagogical essay in&nbsp;American Realism &amp; Naturalism&nbsp;53.2 (Winter 2021), titled &#8220;Black Realism Matters; or, A Syllabus is Still a Terrible Thing to Waste,&#8221; Assoc. Prof. Kathryn Wichelns argues that the movement-and-era boundaries that delimit many American literature courses function as a form of structural racism, as African American writing often does not conform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}