Creating “Unpracticed Conversations Assignments” for Our Courses

Front cover of the book "Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence" by Derald Wing Sue

by Laura Dumin, Ph.D., English — 

I am hoping to teach George Takei’s “They Calles Us Enemy” this spring. It’s a graphic novel about the Japanese internment camps in America. My hope is that by looking at this moment in time we might begin to discuss what it meant to look Asian/be Asian at that time. I’d like to talk about what it . . .  read more