Here are some useful references on Huckleberry Finn and race:



Leonard, James, et al. eds. Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn. Durham: Duke UP, 1992.



Graff, Gerald, and James Phelan. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy. Boston: St. Martin’s, 2003.



Ellison, Ralph. “Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke.” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism. Ed. Sculley Bradley, et al. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1977. 421-22.



Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn. The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.



Especially for future teachers:



Essay by Twain scholar Shelly Fisher Fishkin, author of Was Huck Black:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/essay.html

If you're interested in seeing some of Isaac Watts's hymns, which were discussed briefly the other day when we talked about Emily Dickinson, here is a link to some:
http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/4/3/13439/13439.txt.
Here's a sample:
Song 17.
_Love between Brothers and Sisters_.

1 What ever brawls are in the street
There should be peace at home;
Where sisters dwell and brothers meet
Quarrels shou'd never come.

2 Birds in their little nests agree;
And `tis a shameful sight,
When children of one family
Fall out, and chide, and fight.

3 Hard names at first, and threatening words,
That are but noisy breath,
May grow to clubs and naked swords,
To murder and to death. . . .
Here's a link to information on Emily Dickinson.

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