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Increasing Multicultural Awareness through Teaching the Works of Anzia Yezierska

Recommends incorporating the works of author Anzia Yezierska into high school and college courses in order to increase students' multicultural awareness and tolerance of diversity. Notes that in five novels and many short stories, she raises cultural, gender, and religious issues still relevant today. Themes in her works include obedience to parents, the value of assimilation, fighting social injustice, gender, Judaism, and language. (SM)

  • Contributor: Schaffer, Deborah
  • Date Published: Spr
  • Journal/Secondary Title: Multicultural Education
  • Number: 3
  • Volume: 10
  • Year: 2003

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