'"Write if you will, but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be...'" -- Invisibility and visibility : do you see me? Do you want to? -- Representation matters : Black body, Black family, Black life and reasoning Raisin -- Teachers' talk after watching Raisin, Lorraine, yesterday into today and life bio -- A raisin in the sun, words and work of Lorraine Hansberry -- On being "young, gifted, and Black".
Summary:
"Understanding the Black Family and Black Students shows how Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, should be used as a teaching tool to help educators develop a more accurate and authentic understanding of the Black Family. This book aims to help educators to have greater awareness of Black children and youth's academic potential and learning capacity, and for teachers to cultivate the consciousness to disavow white supremacy, American exceptionalism, racial innocence, and personal absolution within the education system. This counternarrative responds to the flawed and racist perceptions, stereotypes and tropes that are perpetuated in schools and society and the African American family and Black students in US schools. It is deliberative and reverberating in addressing anti-Black racism. It shows that, if Education is to be reimagined through a social justice structure, teachers must be educated with works by Black artists and educators, and teachers must be committed to helping decolonize their own minds. Taking a social justice approach, this will be important reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Educational Foundations, Curriculum and Instruction, Education Policy, Multicultural Education, Social Justice Education, and Black Studies. It will also be beneficial reading for in-service educators"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.