Teaching Black Speculative Fiction
eBook - ePub

Teaching Black Speculative Fiction

Equity, Justice, and Antiracism

  1. 206 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Teaching Black Speculative Fiction

Equity, Justice, and Antiracism

About this book

Teaching Black Speculative Fiction: Equity, Justice, and Antiracism edited by KaaVonia Hinton and Karen Michele Chandler offers innovative approaches to teaching Black speculative fiction (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror) in ways that will inspire middle and high school students to think, talk, and write about issues of equity, justice, and antiracism. The book highlights texts by seminal authors such as Octavia E. Butler and influential and emerging authors, including Nnedi Okorafor, Kacen Callender, B. B. Alston, Tomi Adeyemi, and Bethany C. Morrow.

Each chapter in Teaching Black Speculative Fiction:

  • introduces a Black speculative text and its author,
  • describes how the text engages with issues of equity, justice, and/or antiracism,
  • explains and describes how one theory or approach helps elucidate the key text's concern with equity, justice, and/or antiracism, and
  • offers engaging teaching activities that encourage students to read the focal text; that facilitate exploration of the text and a theoretical lens or critical approach; and that guide students to consider ways to extend the focus on equity, justice, and/or antiracism to action in their own lives and communities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. List of Contributors
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Black Speculative Fiction as “Anchor, Compass, and Sail”
  12. 1. Exploring the Complexities of Environmental Disaster, Justice, and Racism in Ninth Ward
  13. 2. The Responsibility to Remember: India Hill Brown’s The Forgotten Girl
  14. 3. Reading and Engaging with Kacen Callender’s Moonflower through Intersectional Pedagogies
  15. 4. Illusions of Identity: Counternarratives in B. B. Alston’s Amari and the Night Brothers
  16. 5. The Power of Voice and Choice: Examining Blackness, Black Girlhood, and Identity in A Song Below Water
  17. 6. Creative Disruptions: Protest Art and Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Summer Prince
  18. 7. Resilience, Resistance, and Healing in Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone
  19. 8. Teaching Counterstorytelling in High School Using Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone
  20. 9. Using a Historical Lens to Examine Agency in Mother of the Sea
  21. 10. The Monster or the (Wo)Man in Victor LaValle’s Destroyer
  22. 11. Race in the Zombie Apocalypse: Teaching Justina Ireland’s Dread Nation
  23. 12. Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon: Classroom Projects from an Animal Rights Perspective
  24. 13. “Slavery Was a Long Slow Process of Dulling”: Octavia Butler’s Kindred as a Medium for Teaching Empathy, Social Justice, and Antiracism
  25. 14. Slavery Was a Choice?: Lessons from Kindred by Octavia Butler
  26. 15. “I Serve the Spirits and I Heal the Living”: Communities of Care as Sites of Resistance in Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring
  27. 16. Understanding by Design with Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber
  28. Resources
  29. Index