I would be interested to hear different perspectives on this, especially from people who could be affected or harmed by the content.
My reaction reading the title was: I graduated from high school in 1989 and we grappled with it then, too (Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird).
The way I remember it, our teacher talked about it, how it was an offensive term but that we still read these books because they have intrinsic value. We had discussions about the choice to use that word and whether it was justifiable. I recall that she used the N-word when reading passages aloud from Huckleberry Finn, but referred to Jim as Jim in class discussion.
Worth noting my class was 100% white so this solution had pretty universal buy-in.
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I would be interested to hear different perspectives on this, especially from people who could be affected or harmed by the content.
My reaction reading the title was: I graduated from high school in 1989 and we grappled with it then, too (Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird).
The way I remember it, our teacher talked about it, how it was an offensive term but that we still read these books because they have intrinsic value. We had discussions about the choice to use that word and whether it was justifiable. I recall that she used the N-word when reading passages aloud from Huckleberry Finn, but referred to Jim as Jim in class discussion.
Worth noting my class was 100% white so this solution had pretty universal buy-in.