Teaching Black Speculative Fiction

<p><i>Teaching Black Speculative Fiction: Equity Justice and Antiracism</i> 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.</p><p>Each chapter in <i>Teaching Black Speculative Fiction</i>:</p><ul> <li>introduces a Black speculative text and its author</li> <li>describes how the text engages with issues of equity justice and/or antiracism</li> <li>explains and describes how one theory or approach helps elucidate the key text’s concern with equity justice and/or antiracism and</li> <li>offers engaging teaching activities that encourage students to read the focal text; that facilitate exploration of the text and a theoretical lens or critical approach; and that guide students to consider ways to extend the focus on equity justice and/or antiracism to action in their own lives and communities.</li> </ul>