A History of Black People as Readers: A Genealogy of Critical Literacy

CONTENTS OF VOLUME

1. Preface
2. Introduction

1. Parody and Counter-Narrative in Art: Viewing Against the Grain
2. Reading in the Dark: Freedom of the Mind and Body
3. Inspiration via Critical Literacy: Filling Gaps in the Canon
4. The Why and How of Reading: Literacy Skills from Primary Sources
5. Through the Labor of Literacy
6. Freedom Dreaming: Critical Thought Through Imagination
7. Teaching Theater in a Minority-Majority Classroom
8. Self-Evident and Self-Contradictory: Black Readings of the Declaration of Independence

Introduction

Roderick A. Ferguson, William Robertson Coe Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Professor of American Studies