Recently, my friend, and frequent conference collaborator, AJ Ortega posted a story about one of his students complaining about a short story he assigned for them to read. The story was “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl or Halfie)” by Junot Diaz. AJ’s student felt that it was inappropriate for a teacher…
Tag: Literature
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on Original Fairy Tales
by mav • • 4 Comments
Ok, the “Scottish version” of Snow White is the best story ever. Actually Cracked is wrong; it’s not really the same, it’s a separate but similar fairytale (ATU#709) called Gold-Tree and and Silver-Tree. But whatever. I like the message: Wait for your evil mother-in-law to try to murder your wife, then find a new wife…