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Examines the roles of historical, cultural, and personal identities in the classroom Can whites teach African-American literature effectively and legitimately? What is at issue when a man teaches a women's studies course? How effectively can a straight woman educate students about gay and lesbi...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-893212024-05-30T11:28:42Z Teaching What You're Not Mayberry, Katherine Counselling of students thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy::JNFC Counselling and care of students Examines the roles of historical, cultural, and personal identities in the classroom Can whites teach African-American literature effectively and legitimately? What is at issue when a man teaches a women's studies course? How effectively can a straight woman educate students about gay and lesbian history? What are the political implications of the study of the colonizers by the colonized? More generally, how does the identity of an educator affect his or her credibility with students and with other educators? In incident after well-publicized incident, these abstract questions have turned up in America's classrooms and in national media, often trivialized as the latest example of PC excess. Going beyond simplistic headlines, Teaching What You're Not broaches these and many other difficult questions. With contributions from scholars in a variety of disciplines, the book examines the ways in which historical, cultural, and personal identities impact pedagogy and scholarship. Essays cover such topics as the outsider's gaze as it applies to the study of non-white literature; an able-bodied woman's reflections on teaching literature by disabled women; and the challenges of teaching the Western canon at an African American college. 2024-04-03T10:08:59Z 2024-04-03T10:08:59Z 1996 book ONIX_20240403_9780814763179_39 9780814763179 9780814755310 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89321 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 9780814763179_WEB.pdf 9780814763179_EPUB.epub New York University Press NYU Press 10.18574/nyu/9780814763179.001.0001 10.18574/nyu/9780814763179.001.0001 7d95336a-0494-42b2-ad9c-8456b2e29ddc 9780814763179 9780814755310 NYU Press New York open access
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