Teaching Black : the craft of teaching on Black life and literature /
edited by Ana-Maurine Lara and Drea Brown.
- 1 online resource (xx, 310 pages) : illustrations.
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Rootedness: The Ancestor as Foundation / The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America: Something like a Sonnet for Phillis Wheatley / Black Studies, All Studies: What Can Black Studies Teach Creative Writing? / Centering Black Queer Womyn: Today All the Parts of Me Come Along / Excerpt from "Nudging the Memory--Creating Performance with the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women" / Provocation 1: cochise be de name I gave dem: dem = student(s) who had dey funeral(s) befo mine / Teaching with Blues Poems: Borrowing from Song to Write about What's Wrong / Who's Afraid of Poetry? / What Is Black? / Discipline and Craft: An Interview with Sonia Sanchez / Teaching Black Diaspora~Yoking Yemoja's Breath / A Question of Victory: Teaching Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric / Poetry Is Not a Luxury / Provocation 2: Black Out, White Wash, Fall Out / Baring/Bearing Anger: Race in the Creative Writing Classroom / How Much Is Too Much?: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Queering the Classroom / Not Everything Faced Can Be Changed / Teaching as a Practice Rooted in Black Brotherhood / You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is Important: The Black Female Professor as "the Help" / Pony, Swim, or Freeze? / Teaching from the Front Porch / 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 / Provocation 3: "an open letter to the school resource officer who almost shot me in my class" and "the surprising thing" / Th/Inking in Black: Notes on Teaching Creative Writing / Black Fugitive Pedagogies / Note-to-Self, to My Sister Hennessy: Collecting Subjects in Black Queer Feminist Pedagogy / What the Body Knows: A Theatrical Jazz-Inflected Pedagogy / young neesha or, a radical idea that black children should not be given white paper to create art that reflects themselves (or anything) / Provocation 4: Excerpts from Too Fly on the Wall: Negrotesque Workshop Tactics for Black Study / Joyce A. Joyce -- Drea Brown and Ana-Maurine Lara -- Toni Morrison -- June Jordan -- John Keene -- JP Howard -- Rhodessa Jones -- Avery A. Young -- Sheila Maldonado -- Rita Dove -- Sarah Webster Fabio -- Sonia Sanchez and Susan Kelly -- Meta Duewa Jones -- Drea Brown -- Audae Lorde -- Gabrielle Civil -- Toi Derricotte -- Charles Rice-Gonzalez -- Kelly Norman Ellis -- Jamal Adams and F. Douglas Brown -- Lauren K. Alleyne -- Gabrielle Civil -- Anastacia-Renee Tolbeat -- Lisa B. Thompson -- Matthew E. Henry -- Nelly Rosario -- Aricka Foreman -- Mecca jamilah Sullivan -- Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and Sharon Bridgforth -- Avery A. Young -- 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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American literature--African American authors--Study and teaching. Literature--Black authors--Study and teaching. African Americans--Education. Authors as teachers. African American authors. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Black people--Study and teaching--United States. Afrocentrism--Study and teaching--United States. African Americans--Study and teaching--United States--Bibliography.