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Title Can I teach that? : negotiating taboo language and controversial topics in the language arts classroom / edited by Suzanne Linder and Elizabeth Majerus.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 153 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Don't shy away from books about tough issues / Jabari Asim -- Teaching the banned books project / Stephen E. Rayburn -- A true war story: addressing the real obscenities / Suzanne Linder -- Creative profanity: strong language in student work / Elizabeth Majerus -- Defending Arnold's spirit: battling a big book challenge in a small town / Amy Collins -- Challenging homophobic and heteronormative language: queering the Merchant of Venice / Stephanie Ann Shelton -- From canon to "pornography" : common core and the backlash against multicultural literature / Loretta Gaffney -- The fine art of defusing an N-bomb: the challenges of navigating racially charged language in the (majority white) African American literature classroom / Matt Mitchell -- Too close to dead: addressing racist language head-on in the African American ELA classroom / Jalisa Bates -- Libraries unfiltered: increase access, grow the whole child / Frances Jacobson Harris and Amy L. Atkinson.
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Subject Language arts (Secondary) -- Social aspects.
Taboo, Linguistic.
Prohibited books.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
Language arts (Secondary) -- Social aspects
Prohibited books
Taboo, Linguistic
Added Author Linder, Suzanne, editor.
Majerus, Elizabeth, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Can I teach that? Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016] 9781475814767 (DLC) 2016012616 (OCoLC)943646140
ISBN 9781475814781 (electronic book)
147581478X (electronic book)
9781475814767 (hardcover alkaline paper)