Anxious Black Woman writes:
“It had become painfully clear over the last couple of months that my students can read the literal text (e.g. James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time or a political cartoon about the presidential race or a print ad depicting women’s bodies in sexualized ways) but ask them to dig deeper for the subtext, and they get lost. In a course on racism, this is particularly brutal for students because much of our language and messages about racism are all in the subtext.
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