Anti-Racism and Literary Studies

What is the relationship between literacy and the current political polarization in the United States? How has the English major changed since the early 1970s? And how can we be less pessimistic about the future? Join host Dean Brian Edwards and Hortense J. Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Vanderbilt University, as they discuss these questions and more in this episode of Anti-Racism and the Disciplines.

Timestamps:

• [01:22 - 06:06] How is literacy the central problem in the United States today?

• [06:06 - 16:05] What are the problems with what college students are learning today?

• [16:05 - 19:55] What do literary studies teach students that other majors don't?

• [19:55 - 26:32] What is the  ...