This case study shares the experiences of 24 students in an urban high school in the U.S. Midwest who spent 6 weeks learning about, and applying tenets of, critical race theory (CRT) to their analysis of the canonical "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Students created a visual essay reflecting their understanding of CRT in the novel…

Help students to explore the intertextuality of literature and to think more deeply and compassionately about the world. This book shows high school teachers and college instructors how to foreground a work's cultural context, recognizing that every culture has its own narrative tradition of oral and written classics that inform its literature.…

Purpose: In an era when engagement in public spaces and places is increasingly regulated and constrained, we argue for the use of literary analytic tools to enable younger generations to critically examine and reenvision everyday spatialities (Rogers, 2016; Rogers et al., 2015). The purpose of this paper is to consider how spatial analyses of…

Purpose: This study aims to examine the responses and perceptions of Israeli Arab teachers toward multicultural and educational issues concerning Jewish-Arab relations. Design/methodology/approach: This study is a qualitative research. The study included 44 novice Arab teachers, who teach Hebrew in the Arab sector and are currently studying toward…

Argues that what lies behind the neglect of black American literature is not a supportable body of critical criteria, but a refusal to believe that blacks possess the humanity requisite for the production of works of art. (Author/JM)

Examines Syron's novel as a strategic rhetorical response to the problems of racism in America with far-ranging implications in American social and institutional history. Argues that the novel's shaping vision illuminates the ethical dilemma of the liberal humanist and explores the ramifications of violence for self-definition and social reform.…

Three popular modern British novelists are compared in terms of their treatment of the ideology of racism. Racism in fiction is seen not only to reflect current social forces, but also to have influence upon society. (Author/GC)

The pervasive note in Alex La Guma's novels is that of hope in the eventual overthrow of the oppressive regime in South Africa. La Guma's position is characterized by a strong belief in the close correspondence which should be maintained between literature and life, and by the pursuit of social justice. (Author/GC)

The only way English teachers and their students can have an appreciation for literature by black writers is to have appreciation for the writers themselves and for the world, past and present, they occupy. (MM)

Described is a project in which seventh graders in Newark explored the racial attitudes implicit in a short story as they made slides to illustrate the story. (LS)

Du Bois coupled his studies of black American and African history with the condemnation of white civilization in such a manner as to suggest that to study the one was to expose the other. (DM)

An analysis of Phillis Wheatley and her poetry which suggests that her verse is permeated with a social ambivalence which reflects a self-hatred motivated by the factor of race. (EH)

Three children's books which deal with the theme of school integration are reviewed. Though these books attempt to address the issue in a positive way, the treatment of such a complex social problem as school integration is naive and underlying racist attitudes are present. Librarians, educators, and parents need to critically review their…

Analyzed are the attitudes and remarks of characters in Sartoris," The Sound and the Fury," Intruder in the Dust," Light in August," Go Down Moses," and Absalom, Absalom!" (RD)

The essay defines and illustrates ways in which the anxiety of separation and the fantasy of dirt play a key role in shaping the response of readers to texts loosely defined as "racial." The work of Wheatley, Wright, and Baldwin, as well as that of some of the new black poets, is examined in relation to the psychoanalytic theories which…