Welcome. This site shall serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas and insights relating to race, culture, and the American literary imagination. The examination of racial identity in literature is fundamental to the comprehension of cultural assumptions about identity. Questions we will ask ourselves throughout this blog site include the following: How are categories of race imagined in works of literature? What does it mean to be “American,” “White,” or “Black”? To what extent are categories meaningless; to what extent are these categories real or imagined? And, finally, how is identity formed?
This blogsite also allows you to mix media when writing about literature. Hopefully you'll make creative use of images, interviews, video clips, etc., in order to fully engage your reader. Please feel free to make the leap from literature to popular culture by comparing our texts to film, television, news, political and historical events, music, and other visual media. Make connections. Forge new ideas. Hopefully, you'll enjoy yourselves and learn a thing or two in the process.
Now, let's get to work.
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