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Book SynopsisTeaching 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 studen
