1st Edition
Examining Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun as Counternarrative Understanding the Black Family and Black Students
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter One: "Write if you will but Write About the World As It Is and As You Think It Ought to Be…"
Chapter Two: Invisibility and Visibility: Do You See Me? Do You Want to?
Chapter Three: Representation Matters: Black Body, Black Family, Black Life and Reasoning Raisin
Chapter Four: Teachers’ Talk after Watching Raisin, Lorraine, Yesterday into Today and Life Bio
Chapter Five: A Raisin in the Sun, Words and Work of Lorraine Hansberry
Chapter Six: On Being "Young, Gifted, and Black"
Biography
Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and former Chair of the Afro American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He has authored or edited more than fifty books. Professor Grant's recent books includes James Baldwin and The American Schoolhouse (2021); Du Bois and Education (2018) and Black Intellectual Thought in Education, (Sept. 2015) Routledge (with Keffrelyn and Anthony Brown); and The Moment: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright and the Firestorm at Trinity United Church of Christ (with Shelby Grant) 2013, Rowman & Littlefield.
