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2018
Volume 113, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

Two Black teacher educators share how they used critical lenses in a book club with high school students to disrupt myths that paint Blackness as a monster to be silenced, controlled, and surveilled.

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