Welcome to My House: African American and European American Students' Responses to Virginia Hamilton's "House of Dies Drear.".

Spears-Bunton, Linda A.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Welcome to My House: African American and European American Students' Responses to Virginia Hamilton's "House of Dies Drear."

Spears-Bunton, Linda A.

Journal of Negro Education, v59 n4 p566-76 Fall 1990

Addresses the relationship between reader response and culture. Presents portraits of a teacher and her Black students and White students as they studied a series of African American literary texts, including Virginia Hamilton's "House of Dies Drear" (1968). The reading of this text marked a turning point for the teacher and students. (AF)

Descriptors: Black Literature, Black Students, Childrens Literature, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships, Ethnography, Grade 11, Intercultural Communication, Interviews, Literacy, Reader Response, Secondary Education, White Students

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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