Cheryl A. Canino
Essential Questions
How do social constructs such as race shape literature?
Can literature serve as a vehicle for social change?
Is utopia attainable? At what cost is it worth attaining?
Enduring Understandings
Race is a social construct and racism is embedded in American institutions.
Counterstorytelling is necessary for understanding, feeling and interpreting marginalized voices.
Utopia may only be attained when the interests of all converge.