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• Corporate rights DO endanger People's rights

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• Police are NOT racist against minorities

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• Climate change increasing severity of disasters

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• Global warming will cause a planetwide catastrophe

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• AI poses a doomsday threat

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The original article announcing the new edition by Alan Gribben

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/45645-upcoming-newsouth-huck-finn-eliminates-the-n-word.html

 

NCTE Response

http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CC/0202-nov2010/OnlineChronicle2011_Huck%20Finn.pdf

 

Teaching Racially Sensitive Literature: A Teacher’s Guide

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson1118/Chadwick.pdf

 

Other Resources:

Born to Trouble- PBS series on culture; video available and has great teaching resources

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/huck.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/index.html

 

 

Lesson: The Trial of Mark Twain (for promoting racism in Huck Finn) http://www.uhigh.ilstu.edu/labschool/ep/vol3/twain.html

 

PBS- Africans in America

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/index.html

 

American Slave Narratives: an online anthology

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html

 

Reviews of the book at the time it was published

http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hucrevhp.html

 

Good short interview article from PBS

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/april97/fishkin_4-1.html

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