Teaching Black Speculative Fiction: Equity, Justice, and Antiracism - Paperback

by Kaavonia Hinton (Editor), Karen Michele Chandler (Editor)

Teaching Black Speculative Fiction: Equity, Justice, and Antiracism edited by KaaVonia Hinton and Karen Michele Chandler offers innovative approaches to teaching Black speculative fiction (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, horror) in ways that will inspire middle and high school students to think, talk, and write about issues of equity, justice, and antiracism. The book highlights texts by seminal authors such as Octavia E. Butler and influential and emerging authors, including Nnedi Okorafor, Kacen Callender, B. B. Alston, Tomi Adeyemi, and Bethany C. Morrow.

Each chapter in Teaching Black Speculative Fiction:

• introduces a Black speculative text and its author,
• describes how the text engages with issues of equity, justice, and/or antiracism,
• explains and describes how one theory or approach helps elucidate the key text's concern with equity, justice, and/or antiracism, and
• offers engaging teaching activities that encourage students to read the focal text; that facilitate exploration of the text and a theoretical lens or critical approach; and that guide students to consider ways to extend the focus on equity, justice, and/or antiracism to action in their own lives and communities.

Author Biography

KaaVonia Hinton is a professor in the Teaching & Learning Department at Old Dominion University and the author of many articles and books about literature for youth. She is also the co-editor, with Lucy E. Bailey, of the book series, Research in Life Writing and Education (Information Age Publishing).

Karen Michele Chandler is an associate professor of English at the University of Louisville and the author of many articles on African American, American, and youth literature. She is the co-editor, with Michelle H. Martin, of a special issue of International Research in Children's Literature on Black spaces. Her book, Tending to the Past: Selfhood and Culture in Children's Narratives about Slavery and Freedom, is forthcoming in 2024.