{"632736":{"#nid":"632736","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Black Feminist Scholars Remember Toni Morrison in the Classroom","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/morris\u0022\u003ESusana Morris\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media and Communication, wrote about teaching Toni Morrison\u0026#39;s short story \u0026quot;Recitatif\u0026quot; in the \u0026quot;How Black Feminist Scholars Remember Toni Morrison in the Classroom\u0026quot; in Ms. magazine on Feb. 18, 2020.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Recitatif\u0026quot; is \u0026quot;too often overlooked,\u0026quot; Morris wrote, but the story\u0026#39;s structure and clever themes of people\u0026#39;s perceptions of race have made it one of her favorite works to explore with students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMorrison\u0026rsquo;s purposeful obfuscation of race really invites readers to consider what we really know when we \u0026ldquo;know\u0026rdquo; someone\u0026rsquo;s race. This is particularly interesting in the classroom. I invite students to speak openly about racial stereotypes and how they often function as a type of social technology for us to make sense of the world. Often, students\u0026rsquo; first reactions is to argue that one character has to be Black or, alternatively, white\u0026mdash;because everyone knows that these people are really like this or that. The moment they uncover their own flawed logic is always a transformative one.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2020\/02\/18\/how-black-feminist-scholars-remember-toni-morrison-in-the-classroom\/\u0022\u003ERead the full article here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-02-20 17:50:23","changed_gmt":"2020-02-20 17:50:45","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"day after tomorrow","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2020\/02\/18\/how-black-feminist-scholars-remember-toni-morrison-in-the-classroom\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-02-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"271631":{"id":"271631","type":"image","title":"Susana Morris","body":null,"created":"1449244095","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:48:15","changed":"1475894961","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:21","alt":"Susana Morris","file":{"fid":"198649","name":"smm0006.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smm0006_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/smm0006_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13773,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/smm0006_0.jpg?itok=s47R-cwW"}}},"media_ids":["271631"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"181056","name":"School of Literature  Media and Communication"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}