Understanding the Black Family and Black Students: Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun as Counternarrative

ISBN-13: 9781032492155 / Angielski

Carl Grant

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter One: "Write if you will but Write About the World As It Is and As You Think It Ought to Be…"

Chapter Two: Invisibility and Visibility: Do You See Me? Do You Want to?

Chapter Three: Representation Matters: Black Body, Black Family, Black Life and Reasoning Raisin

Chapter Four: Teachers’ Talk after Watching Raisin, Lorraine, Yesterday into Today and Life Bio

Chapter Five: A Raisin in the Sun, Words and Work of Lorraine Hansberry

Chapter Six: On Being "Young, Gifted, and Black"

 

O autorze

Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and former Chair of the Afro American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He has authored or edited more than fifty books. Professor Grant's recent books includes James Baldwin and The American Schoolhouse (2021); Du Bois and Education (2018) and Black Intellectual Thought in Education, (Sept. 2015) Routledge (with Keffrelyn and Anthony Brown); and The Moment: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright and the Firestorm at Trinity United Church of Christ (with Shelby Grant) 2013, Rowman & Littlefield.