What is it about?
After Donald's Trump election in November 2016, teaching for intercultural respect and sensitivity became especially challenging. In the Red State where I teach, I wrote a letter to my undergraduate students explaining how my course would fit within the new, anti-diversity wave that had put Trump in the White House. Managing these tensions was quite delicate, and this article relates both the context and provides the letter I wrote and how students responded.
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Why is it important?
The article is timely because the issues surrounding racism, anti-immigration, sexual brutality, and the like remain and will trouble university teaching founded in social justice perspectives.
Perspectives
I have used the same letter with my 2018 class because it still resonates, as do all the issues, perhaps amplified by Trump's conduct in office and the hatred that I find that his presidency has brought about among the American people.
Peter Smagorinsky
University of Georgia
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This page is a summary of: A letter to teacher candidates at the dawn of the Trump Presidency, English Teaching Practice & Critique, December 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/etpc-05-2017-0084.
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