![]() ![]() ![]() Students had expressed interest in learning more about slavery, and they are interested in far out, fantastical stories, so Scott's short fiction really captivated them. In the past, when I polled students about works that moved them most, they would mention the poems and rap lyrics, with many noting their interest in "real life issues." This year, however, several students highlighted short stories, in particular, Scott's "The Electric Joy of Service," a tale about a Master who creates a robot who is very much like a slave. Usually in that class, we cover short stories, poems, rap lyrics, essays, and more recently, a few comic books. In addition to covering his book with about 200 student readers, I'm covering some of his stories with students in one of my classes - a group that is comprised of 20 first-year collegiate black men. In the near future, I plan to write more about student engagements with those collections, but for now I had some brief thoughts about why Scott's work has captured the interests and imaginations of a group of students. This semester, I'm faciliating a couple reading group where students are reading Nafissa Thompson-Spires's short story collection Heads of the Colored People (2018) and Rion Amilcar Scott's collection The World Doesn't Require You (2019). ![]()
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