Michael Copperman
Autore di Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta
Opere di Michael Copperman
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Informazioni generali
- Luogo di residenza
- Eugene, Oregon, USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 17
- Popolarità
- #654,391
- Voto
- 5.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 4
He confronts his own privilege as a Stanford graduate, and the racism ingrained in Promise’s poverty and unequal education system. Most of the black Mississippi fourth-graders of his classroom come from impoverished and broken homes, but rise above stereotyping as imaginative boys, bookish girls, enthusiastic, shy, and sometimes tragically brilliant and angry in Copperman’s individual portraits of them. I feel privileged as a reader to know their stories through his work, and inspired as a teacher to turn my doubts into challenges.… (altro)