This professional resource is an article by a teacher who in reflecting on the ways in which America's story has traditionally been told realizes that a 21st-century "re-telling" is in order. Through her experience, education, teaching experience (an urban school with forced busing), and exchanges with other educators, the author shares insights about teaching a multicultural literacy.

This professional resource is an article by a teacher who in reflecting on the ways in which America's story has traditionally been told realizes that a 21st-century "re-telling" is in order. Through her experience, education, teaching experience (an urban school with forced busing), and exchanges with other educators, the author shares insights about teaching a multicultural literacy. Her stories embrace an authentic search for a multicultural literacy where the American literary canon includes both the classics and the marginalized. The article is anecdotal and lively, with references to Edward James Olmos, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sandra Cisneros, and Emily Dickinson, to name but a few. (author/ebm)