Teaching Malcolm X: Popular Culture and Literacy

by Theresa Perry (Editor)

Overview

The volume brings together a dazzling array of perspectives on Malcolm X to discuss the importance of X as a cultural hero and provide guidelines for teaching Malcolm-related material at elementary, high school and university levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136658549
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Theresa Perry

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Situating Malcolm X in the African American Narrative Tradition, Theresa Perry; Part I Teaching and Talking Malcolm; Chapter 1a Malcolm X: Make It Plain, Judy Richardson, James Turner; Chapter 2 “Forming the Habit of Seeing for Ourselves, Hearing for Ourselves and Thinking for Ourselves”, Judith J. Richards; Chapter 3 Don't Waste Your Life, Be Like Malcolm X, Javier Brown; Chapter 4 Never So Truly Free, Terry Meier; Chapter 5 Teaching Malcolm X to Fifth and Sixth Graders, Linda Mizell, Laraine Morin; Chapter 6 What “X” Really Means, Jabari Brown; Chapter 7 The Meaning of Malcolm, Valdir Barbosa; Chapter 8 Reading Malcolm X with White Students, Noel Ignatiev; Chapter 9 For the Love of “X”, Sandra Dickerson; Chapter 10 Malcolm and the Music, Leonard Lewis Brown; Part II Understanding Malcolm X; Chapter 11 Malcolm X and Black Rage, Cornel West; Chapter 12 The Continuing Crime of Black Imprisonment, Steve Whitman; Chapter 13 The Meaning of Malcolm X for Imprisoned Afrikans in the United States, Owusu Yaki Yakubu; Chapter 14 The Perquisites of Whiteness, Robert Lowe; Chapter 15 Toasts, Jam, and Libation, Imani Perry; Chapter 16 Learning to Think for Ourselves, Patricia Hill Collins; Chapter 17 His Name Is Malcolm, Nikki Giovanni; Chapter 18 Texts and Testimonies, Joyce Hope Scott; Chapter 19 Probing a Divided Metaphor, Michael Eric Dyson;

Editorial Reviews

"This anthology provides multicultural approaches for teaching and understanding Malcolm X's speeches and writings in elementary through university-level classrooms...this gathers a range of teaching perspectives on Malcolm X's works, surveying the man's importance and providing guidelines for academic applications." — The Bookwatch

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