Teaching Black : The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature / edited by Ana-Maurine Lara and Drea Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lara, Ana-Mauríne, editor.

Brown, Drea, 1979- editor.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.

Composition, Literacy, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--Study and teaching.

American literature.

Literature--Black authors--Study and teaching.

Literature.

African Americans--Education.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource. 1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword: Black Pedagogy in Context | Joyce A. Joyce

Introduction. "Nothing without Intention" | Drea Brown and Ana-Maurine Lara

Part 1: The Roux

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 R. Young

Part 2: What Is Black? Who's Afraid?

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 | Audre Lorde

Provocation 2: black out white wash fall out | Gabrielle Civil

Part 3: Bearing Witness

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 Tolbert

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

Part 4: Into the Cypher

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 R. Young

Provocation 4: Excerpts from Too Fly on the Wall: Negrotesque Workshop Tactics for Black Study | Douglas Kearney

Appendix A: So You Wanna Get a Black Education: A Primer

Appendix B: The Infiniphonic B Sides.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822946953

0822946955

OCLC:

1285166556