Examining Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun as Counternarrative: Understanding the Black Family and Black Students - Paperback

by Carl A. Grant (Author)

Understanding the Black Family and Black Students shows how Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, should be used as a teaching tool to help educators develop a more accurate and authentic understanding of the Black Family.

Author Biography

Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and former Chair of the Afro American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He has authored or edited more than fifty books. Professor Grant's recent books includes James Baldwin and The American Schoolhouse (2021); Du Bois and Education (2018) and Black Intellectual Thought in Education, (Sept. 2015) Routledge (with Keffrelyn and Anthony Brown); and The Moment: Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright and the Firestorm at Trinity United Church of Christ (with Shelby Grant) 2013, Rowman & Littlefield.