Site-Wide Activity

Welcome to the course site for Imagining Siberia. This site will host student reviews of books about Siberia. The books roughly fall into the following categories: Travel, History, Environment, Fiction, […]

Bread Through the Ages Bread has always been an important part of food culture for as long as civilizations have been developing. Bread is known to have […]

Chorizo Chorizo is a cherished Spanish dish that has been around for centuries. The sausage has different variations depending on which Hispanic […]

Welcome to the course site for Women and Gender in China.

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 […]