Throughlines

A dynamic pedagogical resource for engaging premodern critical race studies in the classroom.
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Throughlines offers a variety of freely accessible teaching materials to help you incorporate premodern critical race studies into your teaching. Specifically designed for use in higher education, the materials on Throughlines include lectures, pedagogical approaches, exemplar syllabi, classroom discussion models, an annotated bibliography and more.

Throughlines will continue to grow over time. So be sure to check back regularly or join our mailing list to stay in the loop on content related to your research and teaching.

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Our scholars

Throughlines materials are developed by cutting-edge scholars in the fields of premodern studies, in collaboration with the Throughlines team.

Contributors include Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Kim F. Hall, Cord J. Whitaker, Chouki El Hamel, Leslie Alexander, Margo Hendricks, and more.

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Syllabus
Tarren Andrews

Indigenous women and the law in the Anglophone Empire

Tarren Andrews offers insights and methods on her class about on the law as linguistic technology, the history of personhood and belonging.

Video
Carol Mejia LaPerle

The smells of The Tempest

How does the attribution of malodorousness in The Tempest reflect the kind of judgements underpinning prejudice—the judgement that decides who does, and who does not, belong?

RaceB4Race Highlight
Reginald A. Wilburn

Milton and anti-lynching reform

Reginald A. Wilburn analyzes James Weldon Johnson’s anti-lynching poem “Brothers – American Drama” (1916) and its intertextual references to Milton.

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