Unit Title	Author
2022
Modern and Contemporary African American Women Poets	Monica Rowley
Keywords: function, form, language, poetry, literary devices, African American, women writers, Workshop, Women poets, Black Poets, context, Creative Writing
“Reading as Writer: Critical Creative Race Thinking Following Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination”	Gregory Probst
Keywords: teacherless writing workshops, hybridity, imagination, intersectionality, English Language Arts, The Crucible, playing in the dark, Recitatif, reading as a writer, queer theory, literary criticism, cultural identity, African American, Critical Race Theory, blackness, whiteness, American Africanism, Africanist., Toni Morrison, third space, American Literature
2020
African American Hair, Freedom, and Civil Rights: Using Film, Media, and African American Hair Styles to Analyze Civil Rights	Aisha Al-Muid
Keywords: Hair, freedom, film, Media, African American, cinema, civil rights
2016
To Write with Fire: Unapologetic Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement	Wendi Mungai Umoren
Keywords: Harlem Renaissance, poetry, revolution, racism, literary period, aesthetics, African American, black arts movement
2009
Looking at the Black Experience in America Through African American Poetry	Joyce Arnosky
Keywords: writing, History, poems, poetry, Reading, African American, 5th grade, Black experience in America
The African American and the Woman Suffrage Movement	Myrtle Bastien
Keywords: gender discrimination, High School, important struggle, disenfranchised, partisan interests, right to vote, racial discrimination, African American, class discrimination, African American women
Early Abolitionists in Philadelphia	Sandy O’Keefe
Keywords: end to slavery, Philadelphia, Quakers, abolitionists, African American, 8th grade, Colonial America, anti-slavery
2008
The African, Caribbean and African American Cultural Connection	Keysiah M. Middleton
Keywords: interlinked groups, dance, Food, language, shared African background, Music, pride, shared awareness, cultural expression, aesthetic values, African, African American, Black Atlantic, connect to Africa
Folktales: Trickster Stories Across Time – From African Ancestors to African American Rappers	Wilda Hayward
Keywords: hip-hop, ESOL, folktales, rap, legacy, Middle Passage, African American, African, West African storytellers, trickster stories, African Diaspora, African folktales, anthropology
Using Rap Lyrics as a Resource in the Secondary English Classroom	Lisa Kelly
Keywords: tells stories, enjoy, relevant to student life, rap music, literary skills, literary devices, literary styles, African American, Bronx, city students, comments on current events, African-based American art form, rap tells stories, trace themes, analyze
2007
Dance, Readings, Acting, Music, and Art (D.R.A.M.A.): A Study of African American Performing and Visual Arts in the 1940s – 1950s	Leslie Carlis
Keywords: dance, Reading, performing arts, Music, acting, African American, Art, visual arts
Paul Robeson, African-American Artist, and the McCarthy Era	Carole Chernecky
Keywords: Identity, Drama, Elgnish, Paul Robeson, social justice, social studies, African American, artist, Art, American Literature
The Harlem Renaissance	Richard P. Holmes
Keywords: History, dance, The Harlem Renaissance, Music, Literature, African American, African American art, African American History