Book chapter
Some of My Students Are Leprechauns: (Or Why It Is Difficult for White College Students to Understand That Racism Is Still a Big Deal)
Teaching with Tension, pp.255-266
Northwestern University Press
01/15/2019
Abstract
I began an earlier version of this chapter by saying that although I generally appreciate surprises in life, I am not so fond of surprises in the classroom (I think I even went so far as to say that I “hate” surprises in the classroom).¹ Of course, this is within the context of me, a Puerto Rican woman, teaching ethnic studies classes in a society which ferociously believes that race and racism are either no longer relevant realities, or conversely, are permanent and irrevocable idiosyncratic features of our lives and history.
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- Title
- Some of My Students Are Leprechauns
- Creators
- Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo - Washington State University, Languages, Cultures, and Race, School of
- Publication Details
- Teaching with Tension, pp.255-266
- Academic Unit
- Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies, Department of
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press; Evanston, Illinois
- Identifiers
- 99900662038901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter