Inclusive Texts for the High School Classroom
By Spenser Stevens | April 24 2020 | High School
With the entrance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby into the public domain this month, Penguin Random House is thrilled to announce that we now publish a variety of new editions of the beloved American classic. Each features exclusive ancillary materials, including introductions by many of today’s foremost writers and thinkers that contextualize the
Read moreFrom the introduction: The Difficult Miracle This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist. –June Jordan For over 250 years, African Americans have written and recited and published poetry about beauty and injustice, music and muses, Africa and America, freedoms
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