This teaching note reviews a four-part discussion post assignment that asks Black-identified students enrolled in a class connected to a Black living-learning community to make sociological and personal connections to concepts related to race, anti-Blackness, and institutional racism in Yaa Gyasi’s novel Homegoing. Reflecting on their posts, I share how using literary fiction in the classroom can support students’ development of a sociological imagination grounded in history’s missing voices and an intersectional and structural understanding of race and racism. Moreover, by making connections between the characters, their peers, and their own lives and sharing these connections via their discussion posts, students create a space of collective vulnerability where they can reflect simultaneously upon the dehumanizing aspects of anti-Blackness and assert their individual and collective humanity in the face of this oppressive force.

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“我灵魂的碎片”：用人文主义的方法向黑人学生教授种族和反黑人问题

本教学笔记回顾了由四部分组成的讨论后作业，该作业要求就读与黑人生活学习社区相关的班级的黑人身份学生，将社会学和个人与亚阿种族、反黑人和制度种族主义相关的概念联系起来贾西的小说《回家》。回顾他们的帖子，我分享了如何在课堂上使用文学小说来支持学生发展基于历史缺失的声音的社会学想象力以及对种族和种族主义的交叉和结构性理解。此外，通过在角色、他们的同伴和他们自己的生活之间建立联系，并通过他们的讨论帖子分享这些联系，学生们创造了一个集体脆弱的空间，在那里他们可以同时反思反黑人的非人性方面，并维护他们的个人和面对这种压迫力量的集体人类。