Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom

Cristina Stanciu is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879–1924. Gary Totten is a professor of English at the University of Nevada. He is the author of African American Travel Narratives from Abroad: Mobility and Cultural Work in the Age of Jim Crow.

“Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom foregrounds the imperative of teaching anti-racist education through the adoption of racial literacy and innovative pedagogies to offer critical hope for social change in our troubled time. This book is indispensable reading for twenty-first century scholars and teachers in college classrooms across the country.”--Mary Jo Bona, coeditor of Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates

• Acknowledgments Introduction Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten Part I. Racial Literacies The Necessity of Racial Literacy in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom  Jennifer Ho Form, Politics, and Syllabus Design: Short Fiction and the Teaching of Racial Literacy  Joanne Lipson Freed Digital Projects as Tools for Teaching Latinx Literature  Yadira Gamez and C. Anneke Snyder Reading Refugitude: Critical Frameworks for Teaching Hmong American Literature  Lauren J. Gantz Part II. Race, History, and Pedagogy Detecting the Present in the Historical Novel: Building Consciousness through a Pedagogy of Conscious Anachronism  Crystal R. PÉrez Civilization on Stolen Land: Charles Eastman, Counterstory, and Common Ground  Kristen Brown Uneducated, Undereducated, and Miseducated: Contesting Education Inequality and the Struggle for ConscientizaÇÃo  Norell MartÍnez Our Absence: The Missing Latinx Students in the Selective University  Luis CortÉs Part III. Racial Justice and Antiracism Becoming an Antiracist in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom  Emily Ruth Rutter Exploring the Effects of Asian Stereotypes and Exclusion in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom  Sarah Minslow From W. E. B. Du Bois to George Floyd: Critical Race Theory in the Post-2020 Classroom  Ariel Santos Not Another Antiracist Reading List: Afropessimism, Autotheory, and the Limits of (Anti)Racism  Kevin Pyon Part IV. Race, Racism, Empathy, and Hope Confronting the Spectacle of Black Death in the Black Lives Matter-Era Classroom  Shermaine M. Jones Empathy for “The Other”: Multiethnic Literature and the Possibilities of Empathy across Racial, Gender, and Cultural Differences  Marilyn Edelstein Magic and Melancholia: Racial Feelings and Teaching Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”  Nancy Huayan Carranza Race in the Classroom and the Problem of Hope  Naomi Edwards Afterword. Breaking Master Narratives through Transformative Pedagogies: Teaching Race in the Multiethnic Classroom  Martha J. Cutter Contributors Index