Site-Wide Activity

I believe an apt addition to the course would be The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The issues and depth of this book and the topics it covers like abuse, trauma and love. I think maybe not the whole book would be […]

I think a great fictional book in this class would be Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor. The religious undertones within the text, illustrated by Naylor’s reference to Dante’s Inferno, the  satanic unde […]

One of my favorite units in this class was the “When Faith Meets Activism” section of our syllabus, during which we read works like Warriors Don’t Cry and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. The literature and film […]

While we read multiple texts by Zora Neale Hurston, her foray into the world of film would also be interesting. I think it would also serve as a great segue to Daughters of the Dust because some of the film is […]

If I were to add something to our silabus I would add a book or short story that is from the 2000s to show what Black religious texts are nowadays. One of my favorite books that might fit into this category is […]

I think that Nicole Sealey’s poem “in igboland” from her book Ordinary Beasts would make a good addition to the course because it reminds me a bit of Daughters of the Dust. The poem focuses on a town that build […]

One text I think should be added to this course is “Song of Solomon” by Tony Morrison. I think it fits the objective of this class as it focusses on African American ways of living and has lots of religious […]

Earlier, we discussed the symbolism of the train in Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Reverend J.M. Gates’ “Death’s Black Train is Coming,” along with a secondary article, John M. Giggie’s After Redemption: Jim C […]

Prompt 8

I wanted to continue writing about what Carly started writing about in terms of our group discussion on Tuesday. I really like the analysis of “burning” as Gabriel feeling like he is already in Hell. […]

            My project is on the importance of what Gatorade has done
over the years to become so successful, and how it helps people. Gatorade is a
company that is used a lot for its beloved sports […]

In “The Tale of Two Cities in James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain,” Charles Scruggs of the University of Arizona argues that while many view Baldwin’s work as a Bildungsroman or as a particular […]

Prompt 14

The biggest change between the film and the print text is the chronology and how the flashbacks are worked in. Rather than Gabriel, Florence, and Elizabeth each having their own distinct flashback […]

The use of dirt and filth is very interesting in Go Tell It on the Mountain. Gabriel is always complaining about how dirty he thinks that the house is and saying that his wife should keep it cleaner. His obsession […]

The Tale of Two Cities critical article argues that “Baldwin juxtaposes two cities, the earthly and the heavenly, and together they help to focus the novels various themes: father and son, individual and c […]

Prompt 8

“So he had fallen:  for the first time since his conversion, for the last time in his life.  Fallen:  he and Esther in the white folks’ kitchen, the light burning, the door half open, grappling and bu […]

The first prompt about the differences in kinds of love explored within the novel is really interesting. It seems as though Eros flows through the boys easily and naturally. This is also true of Gabriel. John and […]