...David S. Goldstein Courses on ethnic American literature can unintentionally reinscribe students' preconceptions and stereotypes about ethnic American subgroups or create the false impression that each ethnic group is homogeneous. A student with limited experience with people of color might think...

... perspectives, worldviews, and cultures different from their own. As a literature teacher, he claims to use writings by American soldiers and journalists, North and South Vietnamese soldiers, Vietnamese Buddhists, and ethnic American poets in order to have students reflect on the many perspectives on the war...

...erin Khuê Ninh This article shares tactics for teaching Blu’s Hanging as a text assigned because of its controversy, though not necessarily subsumed by it. The novel is presented so as to grapple with the stakes of ethnic/racial representation alongside careful textual analysis, using...

... in discussions on teaching creative writing. Taking into account students' subjectivity as also constituted by the dynamics of collective identities such as those suggested by the terms gender, race, ethnicity , and so forth, the essay offers examples of workshop strategies that encourage dialogic voicing. ©...

... from transnational and local materials. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 short-story cycle ethnicity American literature pedagogy Works Cited Anderson Sherwood . [1919] 1999 . Winesburg, Ohio , ed. Love Glen A. . Oxford : Oxford University Press . ———. 1942...

....” Time, 15 October, 83. doi 10.1215/15314200-2010-007 Page and Screen Teaching Ethnic Literature with Film David S. Goldstein We teachers of multiethnic American literature face a common dilemma: How do we show students, especially in predominantly white classes, the richness...

... October, 66. Stein,  Joel. 2007. “You Are Not My Friend.” Time, 15 October, 83. doi 10.1215/15314200-2010-007 Page and Screen Teaching Ethnic Literature with Film David S. Goldstein We teachers of multiethnic American literature face a common dilemma: How do we show students...

.... Gutierrez, Ramon A. 1994 . “Ethnic Studies: Its Evolution in American Colleges and Universities.” In Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader , ed. David Theo Goldberg, 157 -67. Malden, Mass.:Blackwell. Hairston, Maxine. 1992 . “Diversity, Ideology,and Teaching Writing.” College Composition...

... Politics and Literature . Berkeley: University of California Press. Singh, Amritjit, and Peter Schmidt, eds. 2000 . Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Sommer, Doris. 2003 . Bilingual Games: Some Literary...

... . Freedom, Calif.: Crossing. Maitino, John R., and David R. Peck. 1996 . Introduction to Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays , ed. John R. Maitino and David R. Peck, 3 -16. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. McLaren, Peter. 1997 . Revolutionary Multiculturalism...

... to the establishment of identity and belonging. These are usually nonmaterial and quietist aspects that elude measurability and, as such, have often been dismissed as vital factors that impinge upon subjective formation. It is undeniable that much sociopolitical dissonance encountered by ethnic Americans...

...: Boynton/Cook. Giroux, Henry A. 1988 . Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Critical Pedagogy in the Modern Age . American Culture Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Gutierrez, Ramon A. 1994 . “Ethnic Studies: Its Evolution in American Colleges and Universities...

... . 2011 . “An Open Letter from Claudia Rankine.” Rumpus , 12 February . therumpus.net/2011/02/an-open-letter-from-claudia-rankine/ . Teleky Richard . 2001 . “ ‘Entering the Silence’: Voice, Ethnicity, and the Pedagogy of Creative Writing.” MELUS 26 , no. 1 : 205 – 19...

..., and The Lion and the Unicorn. She is currently revising a monograph about Victorian women writers of geography primers. Kim O’Neill is a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Illi- nois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary emphases are ethnic studies and twentieth-century African...

... for selection. Thematic usefulness can be seen as the appropriateness of certain texts in courses organized around themes or subject areas. Another criterion for selection, in American literature courses at least, has been ethnic diversity as such. The goal of ethnic diversity in selecting texts depends...

... . Picca Leslie Houts Feagin Joe R. . 2007 . Two-Faced Racism: Whites in the Backstage and Frontstage . New York : Routledge . Picower Bree . 2009 . “The Unexamined Whiteness of Teaching: How White Teachers Maintain and Enact Dominant Racial Ideologies.” Race, Ethnicity...

... in the United States into three categories: “techno- modernism,” “lower-­middle-­class modernism,” and “high cultural pluralism” (33). The existence of this third category indicates the widespread valoriza- tion in academia of the experiences of the marginalized outsider (often based on ethnicity...

... is scarcely recognized as an ethnic identity, and most New Zealanders take note of it only in limited ways, showing, for instance, what appears to me inordinate interest in the Holocaust.4 In one series of commercials here a fat-cat banker in New York sends his minion Ira Goldstein (pronounced Goldsteen...

... is scarcely recognized as an ethnic identity, and most New Zealanders take note of it only in limited ways, showing, for instance, what appears to me inordinate interest in the Holocaust.4 In one series of commercials here a fat-cat banker in New York sends his minion Ira Goldstein (pronounced Goldsteen...

... is scarcely recognized as an ethnic identity, and most New Zealanders take note of it only in limited ways, showing, for instance, what appears to me inordinate interest in the Holocaust.4 In one series of commercials here a fat-cat banker in New York sends his minion Ira Goldstein (pronounced Goldsteen...