Challenging Antisemitism

Mara Lee Grayson is the author of Teaching Racial Literacy: Reflective Practices for Critical Writing, Race Talk in the Age of the Trigger Warning: Recognizing and Challenging Classroom Cultures of Silence, and Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric. She works as an associate professor of English at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Judith Chriqui Benchimol is a college composition and English education lecturer with Sephardic Jewish roots. She holds a Masters degree in Life Writing from University of East Anglia and is presently a Ph.D. candidate and nonfiction writing lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Introduction to the Collection: Why Is It So Hard to Talk about Antisemitism?

Mara Lee Grayson & Judith Chriqui Benchimol

Chapter 1: The Study of Comedic Rhetoric as an Antidote to Antisemitism

Lauri Mattenson

Chapter 2: Repairing the World: Raising Awareness through Social Justice Action in the English Classroom

Rachel Kraushaar

Chapter 3: Avoiding Conflation, Deflection, and Distraction: Untangling Antisemitism from Zionism and Anti-Zionism

Mara Lee Grayson

Chapter 4: Community Engagement Positionality Statements: An Introduction

Alex Slotkin

Chapter 5: Expanding a Pedagogy of Identity

Gillian Steinberg

Chapter 6: Teaching the Past to Protect the Future: Degenerate Art as a Modern-Day Cultural Warning

Cheryl Hogue Smith

Chapter 7: Representations of the Holocaust and Connected Histories

Ania Switzer

Chapter 8: Teaching Art Spiegelman’s Maus and Kendrick Lamar’s album DAMN. in the Predominantly White, Catholic College Classroom

Maureen Daniels Akerib

Chapter 9: Jewish Experiences That Move Beyond Holocaust Narratives: A Resource For English Teachers

Judith Chriqui Benchimol

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