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  1. Understanding the Black family and Black students
    examining Lorraine Hansberry's "Raisin in the sun" as counternarrative
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "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... more

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    "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"--...

     

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