tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post112991729014734237..comments2024-03-24T09:36:51.494-04:00Comments on delagar: Teaching the Marginsdelagarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-1130092248908530052005-10-23T13:30:00.000-05:002005-10-23T13:30:00.000-05:00dang, if you had been an English prof at my school...dang, if you had been an English prof at my school when I was in college, I not only would have enjoyed my Englished classes, I would have taken more!Ol Crankyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03062952528573304148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-1129953281668265032005-10-21T22:54:00.000-05:002005-10-21T22:54:00.000-05:00Most Hispanics didn't immigrate here, they were he...Most Hispanics didn't immigrate here, they were here first...well second and then we came and after a while took their land and then after a while sent them across our border and then and then we make them immigrants in their own land. Does anyone not see the fucktardness in that? By the way, I have always hated those linear characters created by the old southern white male writers who had, for instance, in The Barn Burning, Faulkner has one black character and he is wait, wait, yep, you got it a contented servant, during reconstruction. I hated that. He acts like a devoted, wait, yes an unhappy freedman who is happy being a slave and won't leave Masta's plantation. They have to get it, please tell me the students will someday get it and say, we want more. We want developed black characters and hispanics and Native American, and Japanese, and all the other Asians, and gay and female and not just stereotypes or linear or walkons or foils to make the white guy look better. Oh my god, I am going to bed before I start pulling out all of Faulkner's works to reexamine the texts. God I wish I were in your class.zelda1https://www.blogger.com/profile/04212809913449846878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-1129947308374989222005-10-21T21:15:00.000-05:002005-10-21T21:15:00.000-05:00delagar, this is great! I've been at such a loss ...delagar, this is great! I've been at such a loss for words when our soccer kids ask about what they're reading in English class. (For the most part, they are enjoying the selections. The selections in both high schools by the way are diverse and quite good.) What I've been telling them is good, but not as good as what you said. They would get it, too. The majority are Hispanic and most immigrated here. One is Sudanese and a Muslim. These kids know all about the margins.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8340684.post-1129943125474359662005-10-21T20:05:00.000-05:002005-10-21T20:05:00.000-05:00Inspiring.I love it when students actually get thi...Inspiring.<BR/><BR/>I love it when students actually get this stuff.jo(e)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01488562158252331555noreply@blogger.com