ABSTRACT

The volume brings together a dazzling array of perspectives on Malcolm X to discuss the importance of X as a cultural hero and provide guidelines for teaching Malcolm-related material at elementary, high school and university levels.

chapter |21 pages

Situating Malcolm X in the African American Narrative Tradition

Freedom for Literacy and Literacy for Freedom

part |114 pages

Teaching and Talking Malcolm

chapter |14 pages

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

The Documentary and Book as Educational Materials

chapter |11 pages

“Forming the Habit of Seeing for Ourselves, Hearing for Ourselves and Thinking for Ourselves”

Teaching Malcolm X to Third and Fourth Graders, an Integrated Approach

chapter |24 pages

Never So Truly Free

Reading and Writing about Malcolm in the Community College

chapter |1 pages

What “X” Really Means

chapter |7 pages

The Meaning of Malcolm

A Conversation with High School Students

chapter |12 pages

For the Love of “X”

Teaching The Autobiography of Malcolm X in an Urban High School Setting

chapter |20 pages

Malcolm and the Music

part |105 pages

Understanding Malcolm X

chapter |9 pages

Malcolm X and Black Rage

chapter |12 pages

The Perquisites of Whiteness

Lessons from The Autobiography of Malcolm X

chapter |16 pages

Toasts, Jam, and Libation

How We Place Malcolm X in the Folk Tradition

chapter |22 pages

Learning to Think for Ourselves

Malcolm X's Black Nationalism Reconsidered

chapter |10 pages

His Name Is Malcolm

chapter |12 pages

Texts and Testimonies

Feminist Notes on the Liberation Narrative of Malcolm X

chapter |11 pages

Probing a Divided Metaphor

Malcolm X and His Readers