Letting go of literary whiteness : antiracist literature instruction for white students
Carlin Borsheim-Black
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
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| Omfang | xii, 145 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Foreword / Timothy J. Lensmire - Acknowledgments -- Teaching About Racism Through Literature in White Schools -- Why Focus on White Educational Contexts? -- Why Teach About Racism via Literary Study? -- What Is Antiracist Literature Instruction and Why Take It Up? -- Notes on Authorial Decisions -- Designing Racial Literacy Objectives and Assessments for Literature-Based Units -- Common Challenge: Glossing Over Complex Race Concepts -- Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective -- What You Can Do: Use Backward Planning to Design Literature Units for Racial Literacy -- In the Classroom: Articulating Racial Literacy Objectives for A Raisin in the Sun - Conclusion -- Introducing a Racialized Reader Response -- Common Challenge: White Readers' Misreadings of Blackness in Literature -- Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective -- What You Can Do: Interrupt Whiteness via Text Selection and Literary Response -- In the Classroom: Racializing White Readers' Responses to The Crossover - Conclusion -- Unearthing Whiteness in Canonical Texts About Racism -- Common Challenge: White Investments in Canonical White Savior Narratives -- Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective -- What You Can Do: Expose Whiteness in Canonical, White-Authored Texts -- In the Classroom: Exposing Whiteness in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Conclusion -- Applying a Critical Race Theory Lens to Literary Analysis -- Common Challenge: Reinforcing Racism via Traditional Literary Analysis -- Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective -- What You Can Do: Apply a CRT Lens to Literary Analysis -- In the Classroom: Applying a CRT Lens to To Kill a Mockingbird -- CRT Analysis of One Crazy Summer - Conclusion -- Planning for and Responding to Race Talk -- Common Challenge: Managing Race Talk -- Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective -- What You Can Do: Use Proactive and Reactive Strategies for Managing Race Talk - Conclusion -- Designing Assignments to Build Racial Literacy -- Common Challenge: Questioning White Racial Assumptions -- Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective -- What You Can Do: Design Assignments to Scaffold Racial Literacy -- In the Classroom: Using Collaborative Glossaries and Exploratory Essays -- Racial Identity Work for White Teachers: A Beginning, Not an End. - Rooted in examples from their own and others' classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature instruction in White-dominant schools. Each chapter explores a key dimension of antiracist literature teaching and learning, including designing literature-based units that emphasize racial literacy, selecting literature that highlights voices of color, analyzing Whiteness in canonical literature, examining texts through a critical race lens, managing challenges of race talk, and designing formative assessments for racial literacy and identity growth.
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| ISBN | 0807763055. - 0807763063. - 9780807763056. - 9780807763063
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