ABSTRACT

This book is written by teachers interested in bringing African American literature into the classroom. Documented here is the learning process that these educators experienced themselves as they read and discussed the stories & pedagogical.

chapter |21 pages

“A Rip in the Tent”

Teaching (African) American Literature

chapter |13 pages

Multiple Voices, Multiple Identities

Teaching African American Literature

chapter |10 pages

Little Ham's Self-Invention

Teaching Langston Hughes

chapter |23 pages

Freeing the Female Voice

New Models and Materials for Teaching

chapter |34 pages

A Female Face

Or, Masking the Masculine in African American Fiction Before Richard Wright

chapter |9 pages

Voices of Double Consciousness in African American Fiction

Charles W. Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West, and Richard Wright

chapter |10 pages

To Shatter Innocence

Teaching African American Poetry

chapter |27 pages

The Way we do the Things we do

Enunciation and Effect in the Multicultural Classroom

chapter |13 pages

Lying Through our Teeth?

The Quagmire of Cultural Diversity