An imagined reality — talking back to the enlightenment : practicing anti-racist teaching and learning in eighteenth-century British literature (Roundtable)

Growing up in a predominately Caucasian school district made me exceedingly aware of my differences from my peers, teachers, and school materials. As a young student, I was encouraged to accept the history that was handed to me. The history that often left me, a Mexican American woman, out of the na...

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Main Author:	Nevarez, Jasmine
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-1485622021-05-12T20:10:54Z An imagined reality — talking back to the enlightenment : practicing anti-racist teaching and learning in eighteenth-century British literature (Roundtable) Nevarez, Jasmine School of Humanities Humanities::Literature::English Growing up in a predominately Caucasian school district made me exceedingly aware of my differences from my peers, teachers, and school materials. As a young student, I was encouraged to accept the history that was handed to me. The history that often left me, a Mexican American woman, out of the narrative. What is striking about movements like the 1619 Project is that they work within the realm of lost stories to recon-ceptualize and reclaim a history that has been pushed to the side. The 1619 Project brings awareness to the Eurocentricity of US history because it provides a space for Black activists, writers, and innovators to rewrite the history themselves. Black writers such as Eve L. Ewing create imagined realities that fill in the Black voices and narratives that have been lost throughout colonial history. Ewing’s poem, “1773,” presents a lost dialogue between past and present as it restores Black history. Published version 2021-05-11T03:40:41Z 2021-05-11T03:40:41Z 2021 Journal Article Nevarez, J. (2021). An imagined reality — talking back to the enlightenment : practicing anti-racist teaching and learning in eighteenth-century British literature (Roundtable). Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment, 2(2), 18-19. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/srej.2021.2.2.6 2661-3336 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/148562 10.32655/srej.2021.2.2.6 2 2 18 19 en Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment © 2021 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, & the Brigham Young University Faculty Publishing Service. application/pdf
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An imagined reality — talking back to the enlightenment : practicing anti-racist teaching and learning in eighteenth-century British literature (Roundtable)

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