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Blues in the Classroom

1973; National Council of Teachers of English; Volume: 62; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/813795

2161-8895

Frederick E. Danker,

American Literature and Humor Studies

gotten Heritage (English Journal, September 1971) suggests that we teachers look at our nation's rich heritage of oral material: songs, folktales, legends, etc. Many publishers are issuing separate anthologies of black literature and Haslam himself is the editor of a new anthology, Forgotten Pages of American Literature (Houghton). That we still have far to go in presenting adequately the oral literature of both blacks and whites is, I think, quite obvious. Some rather radical shifts in