Teaching Black : the craft of teaching on Black life and literature / edited by Ana-Maurine Lara and Drea Brown.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Joyce A. Joyce -- Drea Brown and Ana-Maurine Lara -- Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation / Toni Morrison -- The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America: Something like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley / June Jordan -- Black Studies, All Studies: What Can Black Studies Teach Creative Writing? / John Keene -- Centering Black Queer Womyn: Today All the Parts of Me Come Along / JP Howard -- Excerpt from "Nudging the Memory--Creating Performance with the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women" / Rhodessa Jones -- Provocation 1: cochise be de name I gave dem: dem = student(s) who had dey funeral(s) befo mine / Avery A. Young -- Teaching with Blues Poems: Borrowing from Song to Write about What's Wrong / Sheila Maldonado -- Who's Afraid of Poetry? / Rita Dove -- What Is Black? / Sarah Webster Fabio -- Discipline and Craft: An Interview with Sonia Sanchez / Sonia Sanchez and Susan Kelly -- Teaching Black Diaspora~Yoking Yemoja's Breath / Meta Duewa Jones -- A Question of Victory: Teaching Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric / Drea Brown -- Poetry Is Not a Luxury / Audae Lorde -- Provocation 2: Black Out, White Wash, Fall Out / Gabrielle Civil -- Baring/Bearing Anger: Race in the Creative Writing Classroom / Toi Derricotte -- How Much Is Too Much?: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Queering the Classroom / Charles Rice-Gonzalez -- Not Everything Faced Can Be Changed / Kelly Norman Ellis -- Teaching as a Practice Rooted in Black Brotherhood / Jamal Adams and F. Douglas Brown -- You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is Important: The Black Female Professor as "the Help" / Lauren K. Alleyne -- Pony, Swim, or Freeze? / Gabrielle Civil -- Teaching from the Front Porch / Anastacia-Renee Tolbeat -- Learning to Fly: A Letter to My Niece and All the Other Newly Minted Black Women Assistant Professors on the Eve of My Promotion to Full Professor / Lisa B. Thompson -- Provocation 3: "an open letter to the school resource officer who almost shot me in my class" and "the surprising thing" / Matthew E. Henry -- Th/Inking in Black: Notes on Teaching Creative Writing / Nelly Rosario -- Black Fugitive Pedagogies / Aricka Foreman -- Note-to-Self, to My Sister Hennessy: Collecting Subjects in Black Queer Feminist Pedagogy / Mecca jamilah Sullivan -- What the Body Knows: A Theatrical Jazz-Inflected Pedagogy / Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and Sharon Bridgforth -- young neesha or, a radical idea that black children should not be given white paper to create art that reflects themselves (or anything) / Avery A. Young -- Provocation 4: Excerpts from Too Fly on the Wall: Negrotesque Workshop Tactics for Black Study / Douglas Kearney --

"Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature presents the experiences and voices of Black creative writers who are also teachers. The authors in this collection engage poetry, fiction, experimental literature, playwriting, and literary criticism. They provide historical and theoretical interventions and practical advice for teachers and students of literature and craft. Contributors work in high schools, colleges, and community settings and draw from these rich contexts in their essays. This book is an invaluable tool for teachers, practitioners, change agents, and presses. Teaching Black is for any and all who are interested in incorporating Black literature and conversations on Black literary craft into their own work." --

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