Examining Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as Counternarrative: Understanding the Black Family and Black Students

This book examines Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as a counternarrative to help educators develop a more accurate and authentic understanding of the Black Family and Black Students. It responds to flawed and racist perceptions, stereotypes, and tropes perpetuated in schools and society about the African American family and Black students. It argues that teachers must be educated with works that include Black artists and educators and be committed to decolonizing their own minds to reimagine education through a social justice structure.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book is a valuable resource for educators who are interested in developing a greater awareness of Black children and youths,humanity,academic potential and learning capacity,and for teachers to develop the consciousness to disavow white supremacy,American exceptionalism,myths,racial innocence,and personal absolution within the education system. It responds to the flawed and racist perceptions,stereotypes,and tropes that are perpetuated in schools and society about the African American family and Black students in US schools. The counternarrative is deliberative and reverberating in addressing anti-Black racism. It argues that if Education is to be reimagined through a social justice structure, teachers must be educated with works that include Black artists and educators, and teachers must be committed to decolonizing their own minds.

This counternarrative is 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.

Weight: 600g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032492155