Inclusive Learning Content for EdTech
A series of messaging-aligned study guides fostering inclusivity for EdTech client LitCharts.
Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams
Ecuadorian-born immigrant Ernesto Quińonez reimagines Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby as a Latinx crime story. Highlighting the Nuyorican movement, activism, urban corruption, and immigrant dreams, Quiñonez brings 1980s-era Spanish Harlem to life.
Waugbeshig Rice’s Moon of the Crusted Snow
First Nations author Waugbeshig Rice’s post-apocalyptic thriller delivers a hard-hitting allegory of colonial oppression from the perspective of the Anishinaabe people. Rice also warns against the dangers of exploiting the Earth’s resources.
Kao Kalia Yang’s The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir
Hmong-American author Kao Kalia Yang’s heartbreaking memoir narrates her family’s history as refugees from Laos who flee to Thailand and eventually emigrate to the United States. Lang highlights the trauma of loss, the inhumanity of statelessness, and the ongoing struggles of fitting in somewhere new.
Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto’s poignant novella is a love letter to urban misfits, highlighting the ways in which strangers who cross paths in large cities can become like family. Exploring loss and loneliness in 1980s Tokyo, Yoshimoto celebrates gender diversity, unconventional love stories, and the simple but profound truth that when all feels lost, there’s nothing like the healing power of a good meal.
Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
Nella Larsen delivers a scathing take on growing up mixed-race during the Harlem Renaissance. Larsen’s stinging prose tackles exoticism, segregated schooling, systemic oppression, and the challenges of growing up mixed-race in a seemingly black or white world.
Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar’s domestic drama tackles Islamophobia, affluence, and orientalism in modern-day New York.
Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race
Oluo offers a step-by-step guide for having difficult but necessary conversations about race, highlighting topics like microaggressions, checking your privilege, and systemic racism.
Andy Mulligan’s Trash
Based on his encounters with young people living on landfills in the Philippines, Andy Mulligan’s fast-paced thriller highlights the resilience of some of the world’s most disenfranchised children.
Ernest Hemingway’s The Three Day Blow
Hemingway’s short story cuttingly explores adolescence and fragile masculinity.
Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson’s astoundingly entertaining history of science highlights the precarious nature of human existence and condemns the recklessness with which we treat our planet.
Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality
Nietzsche’s infamous polemic against 19th century European culture explores social values that create pathologically damaged societies.