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At the onset of the \'novel coronavirus\' pandemic, as public schools, colleges, and universities were closed and \'remote learning\' replaced the face-to-face, collectively shared experience of the classroom, the nature of that classroom became more visible in its absence, as a crisis of presence How \'unprecedented\' was this moment in history, when both the form of the classroom as we imagined and practiced it, as well as the content of the texts or other materials we teach, have always challenged us to consider the place of the classroom in society, and what, how, and why we teach in the first place? I began this review of Matthew E Henry\'s excellent first poetry collection, Teaching While Black, before the May 25 murder of 46-year-old George Floyd by Minneapolis police, reigniting national and global outrage at police violence and systemic racism The resulting protests in communities across the country, along with the excessive use of force by which a clearly racist \'law and order\' was defended in the name of public safety, have only heightened the sense that this moment in history is both \'unprecedented\' and all too familiar The first is drawn from Toni Morrison\'s debut novel, The Bluest Eye, which explores the intergenerational and personal effects of systemic racism on a specific community and individuals linked by shared experiences of race, class, and gender violence
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