Understanding and Teaching American Slavery

Book Overview

Perhaps no topic in U.S. history is as emotionally fraught as the nation's centuries-long entanglement with slavery. How can teachers get students to understand the racist underpinnings of that institution-and to acknowledge its legacies in contemporary America? How can they overcome students' shame, anger, guilt, or denial? How can they incorporate into the classroom important primary sources that may contain obsolete and racist terms, images, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029930664X
• ISBN13: 9780299306649
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"