San Diego State Students Disgusted By Professor's 'Fake Slave Persona' Assignment© Provided by Blavity
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A San Diego State University professor is confronting major controversy over an assignment that required her students to act out a fictional slave character.
According to The Daily Aztec reported, as part of her curriculum, Professor LaShae Sharp-Collins created a project for her Introduction to Africana Studies class that left her students appalled after being instructed to “create a ‘slave persona.’”
Students were required to specify the setting and environment their character lived in, as well as the type of work they did. And if this wasn’t already cringe-worthy, they also had to make up events around their fabricated flee from slavery.
One student was clearly insulted and in outrage over the project. Amari Jackson took his frustration to Instagram and posted a screenshot of the assignment with the caption”
“Should never have to act like and ‘create a slave persona’ for one of my Africana Studies classes. But hey, at least my professor canceled the in-class presentations where she wanted us to act and dress in our personas. (She canceled them because we had too many students and not enough time),” Jackson wrote.
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