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| Participants in the program, September 2005 |
This fall will marks my 21st year teaching an African American literary and cultural studies course for a program for first-semester collegiate Black men here at the university. We've had a good time.
We read Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, and many others. We cover autobiography excerpts, essays, short fiction, poetry, rap, comic books, comic strips, whiteboard animations, and podcast episodes.
So much has changed and remained the same over the last two decades working with the program. Keep in mind that when I began, I was working with Millennials (1986 - 1996), and for the last 10 years, I've been working with Generation Z (1997 - 2012). That means, I've seen evolving interests and views of the world.
Some of young men are from Springfield, some from East St. Louis and Belleville, some from St. Louis, and many from the Chicago area. They arrive with varied academic capabilities. The have diverse musical preferences and interests in movies and video games. We have a good time on a variety of projects.
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