Erykah Badu in the Classroom by: Bethany Stotts Chicago, Ill—Interdisciplinary writing may offer a way to overcome value judgments and examine literature from “multiple perspectives” incorporating social, political, and economic factors, argues Professor Akua Duku Anokye. The Arizona State University professor told a Modern Language Association (MLA) audience this December that “if we label texts illogical, maybe they’re illogical to us... so sometimes we make these kinds of evaluative judgments without taking into consideration the circumstances and the culture from which they come.”... An associate professor of Africana language, literature, and culture, Anokye adopted a similar non-judgmental attitude following the...