The Importance of Multicultural Themes in Writing and Teaching

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The Importance of Multicultural Themes in Writing and Teaching
Maureen Crane Wartski

Maureen Crane Wartski believes that race and ancestry are important parts of identity and uses these themes in her writing. Yet it is the similarities, the shared memories, that allow her character—and, she hopes, her readers as well—to move past difference into friendship and trust.

English Journal, Volume 94, Number 3, January 2005

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