Tag: First Gen

Fastwrite

I’d like us to begin today by considering how difference plays out closer to home. Please read the excerpt from Caitlin Larracey’s “On the Path to Fitting In?: Listening to First Gen Campus Students”. Caitlin is a graduate student at UD; her piece will appear next year in a collection of scholarly essays published by the MLA. Spoiler Alert: MU is UD; Main is this campus; City is the Associate in Arts Campus in Wilmington.

How accurately does Hannah point to differences and divisions that you’ve observed, or felt, here at UD? Do you agree that the experiences of First Gen students at Delaware are significantly different from those of the “Tylers” and “Sarahs” that Hannah and Scott observe? If so, what might be done to connect the two groups more?

Readings, and Other Info

To Do

1. Wed, 9/04, class: Please read “The Three-Legged Dog” by Laurie Clements Lambeth. Bring your laptop with you to class. I’d like to walk you through setting up an account on WordPress and posting a response to this site. (We’ll use your responses to Lambeth as an example.)
2. Friday, 9/06, class: Read “Arts of the Contact Zone” by Mary Louise Pratt. This is a challenging but also rewarding piece. I’ll want to discuss what Pratt means by contact zone, autoethnography, and asymmetrical relations of power. I’d also be interested in hearing your thoughts about Pratt’s attempts to connect the experiences of Guaman Poma and with those of her young son.