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Lorena Germán Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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I talk education, bias, race(ism), books, and more. Co-Founder of #DisruptTexts and Multicultural Classroom.

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Book Cover for: Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices, Lorena Escoto Germán

Textured Teaching: A Framework for Culturally Sustaining Practices

Lorena Escoto Germán
Lorena GermánLorena Germán

So moved by the poem @ReneSaldanaJr sent me that he wrote from Textured Teaching. It’s so amazing to see how this book has influenced so many ideas… 😭💕 https://t.co/uqhlWordwe

Paperback, 2021

$37.13$18.57 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867, Dana D. Nelson

The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867

Dana D. Nelson
Lorena GermánLorena Germán

5. The Word in Black and White by Dana D. Nelson She focuses on early American lit and even focuses on specific titles. The first line alone is good.

Paperback, 2001

$98.00$73.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, Toni Morrison

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison
Lorena GermánLorena Germán

1. Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark She breaks it all the way down in terms of an "Africanist presence" in literature.

Paperback, 1993

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students, Carlin Borsheim-Black

Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students

Carlin Borsheim-Black
Lorena GermánLorena Germán

4. Letting Go of Literary Whiteness by Borsheim-Black and Sarigianides They address how to do this anti racism work specifically with White students. Super thorough.

Hardcover, 2019

$99.00$74.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Passing: The revolutionary novel which inspired Rebecca Hall's powerful film adaptation, Nella Larsen

Passing: The revolutionary novel which inspired Rebecca Hall's powerful film adaptation

Nella Larsen
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Next, I used Nella Larsen’s Passing for a way to critically analyze setting in a book beyond symbolism into antiracism. https://t.co/DYAlNSGV0O

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