Equity and Inclusion: Represent, Amplify, Normalize discussion

In Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy by Gholdy Muhammad, books and multimodal materials form the core that supplements the curriculum and enhances integrated curriculum efforts.

My Review

Books mattered. In literary societies, literature and reading various texts were at the heart of all their pursuits and literacy learning goals. They read diverse literature to enrich their minds and also to cultivate their identities, skills, intellect, and criticality. p137

Using Text to Cultivate the Genius in Students and Teachers: p147 to 155



Educators "layer texts" when they teach and learn from powerful and multimodal texts. These texts are print and nonprint and are intellectually compelling. p147

Primary Sources at The Library of Congress:

The Brownie Book

Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper by Jacqueline Bacon (expensive/hard to find)

Freedom's Journal Poetry Sources: (p 143)

The complete poems of William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant (Available on Kindle $ .99)
Includes "The African Chief"

The Poetry of Phyllis Wheatley by Phyllis Wheatley (Available on Kindle $3.65)
Includes "(An) Hymn Humanity" and "(An) Hymn to the Morning"

"Forget Me Not" by F. G. Halleck, Google Books
The Yorkshire Literary Annual

"On the Poetic Muse" by George Moses Horton, p144
(complete poem)

Other sources for George Moses Horton and many other primary/secondary sources can be found at:
Documenting the American South

Biography and Other Sources

Picture Book Biography:

Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate