In the spring of 2002, when I was a fourth year undergraduate at the University of Minnesota in Cultural Anthropology, I was asked by Professor Miller of American Indian Studies and American Studies to contribute to a growing online resource called Voices from the Gaps. This Web site about women writers of color in North America was originally designed to fill the gaps in contemporary literary discourse. It serves as a resource of biographical and bibliographical information and as a forum for critical thought on the works of women authors who fall into the category “minority” or “of color.”
Classroom: Research
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Negotiating Boundaries in Research on Native American Authors
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Some Ideas for Using VG in Literature and Composition Classrooms
If you teach a course that is not solely devoted to women writers of color, or if you are a teaching assistant and have no say on the compiling of the syllabus and a reading list you can still use the Voices from the Gaps website and give your students assignments compatible with the VG project that will allow them to have their work published.
