First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction: Maryemma Graham -- When Teaching MattersChapter 1. William L. Andews -- Narrating SlaveryChapter 2. Katharine Driscoll Coon -- A Rip in the Tent: Teaching (African) American LiteratureChapter 3. Jane Skelton -- Multiple Voices, Multiple Identities: Teaching African American LiteratureChapter 4. Leslie Catherine Sanders --Little Ham's Self-Invention: Teaching Langston HughesChapter 5. Constance Borab -- Freeing the Female Voice: New Models and Materials for TeachingChapter 6. Thadious M. Davis -- A Female Face: Or, Masking the Masculine in African American Fiction Before Richard WrightChapter 7. Bernard W. Bell -- Voices of Double Consciousness in African American Fiction: Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West and Richard WrightChapter 8. Jerry W. Ward -- To Shatter Innocence: Teaching African American PoetryChapter 9. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg --The Way We Do the Things We Do: Enunciation and Effect in the Multicultural Classroom Chapter 10. Marianna White Davis -- Teaching Against the Odds Chapter 11. Ann Louise Keating -- Interrogating Whiteness, (De)Constructing Race Chapter 12. Trudier Harris -- Lying Through Our Teeth? The Quagmire of Cultural Diversity Chapter 13. Sharon Pineault-Burke and Jennifer Novak -- Selected Bibliography of African American Literature