• Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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    It’s possible to read the novel and see discriminatory language without speaking it aloud. It needs to be taught in a context where the racism (and misogyny and abuse of disabled as well) are called out. English lessons are the best place for this to happen.

    There’s a great poem that’s been taught in English classrooms for years by John Agard called “Half-Caste” where he demolishes the racism of the term.

    Teachers - English teachers - need to challenge and discuss racism.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like I had a crap English teacher then if being taught “half-caste” was meant to frame it as a racist term.

      • Tenebris Nox@feddit.uk
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        Quite likely. There are a great number of poorly-educated terrible English teachers. Pot luck if you find a good one in a school.