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Teaching Confederate Monuments as American Literature
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This chapter outlines a close reading assignment in which students researched the history and reception of the local Confederate monument in Sherman, Texas. This place-based assignment can be built into any number of US literature courses-surveys, topics courses, and seminars-and adapted to any community or campus with a Confederate monument or access to online resources for Confederate monument research. The chapter then explains how the author used this assignment in two different classes as a lens for identifying and critically engaging the subtext of white supremacy in the US literature many education students will one day teach, particularly Harper Lee’s popular novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In another class for upper-division English majors, the Confederate monument assignment highlighted the present-day relevance and urgency of Charles Chesnutt’s critique of Confederate ideology in The Marrow of Tradition.
Title: Teaching Confederate Monuments as American Literature
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This chapter outlines a close reading assignment in which students researched the history and reception of the local Confederate monument in Sherman, Texas.
This place-based assignment can be built into any number of US literature courses-surveys, topics courses, and seminars-and adapted to any community or campus with a Confederate monument or access to online resources for Confederate monument research.
The chapter then explains how the author used this assignment in two different classes as a lens for identifying and critically engaging the subtext of white supremacy in the US literature many education students will one day teach, particularly Harper Lee’s popular novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
In another class for upper-division English majors, the Confederate monument assignment highlighted the present-day relevance and urgency of Charles Chesnutt’s critique of Confederate ideology in The Marrow of Tradition.
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