Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students

Author:   Carlin Borsheim-Black ,  Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides ,  Timothy J. Lensmire
Publisher:   Teachers' College Press
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9780807763063


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   30 September 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students


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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.Book Features: Specific classroom scenarios and transcripts of race-related challenges that teachers will recognize to help situate suggested strategies Sample racial literacy objectives, questions, and assessments to guide unit instruction. A literature-based unit that addresses societal racism in A Raisin in the Sun. Assignments for exploring Whiteness in the teaching of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Questions teachers can use to examine To Kill a Mockingbird through a critical race lens. Techniques for managing difficult moments in whole group discussions. Collaborative glossary and exploratory essay assignments to build understanding of race-based concepts and racial identity development.

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Author:   Carlin Borsheim-Black ,  Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides ,  Timothy J. Lensmire
Publisher:   Teachers' College Press
Imprint:   Teachers' College Press
Weight:   0.355kg
ISBN:  

9780807763063


ISBN 10:   0807763063
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   30 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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"""In Letting Go of Literary Whiteness, Carlin Borsheim-Black and Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides explore pathways for developing educators' racial consciousness by interrogating literary works through the lens of critical race theory."" --English Education ""Using the experiences of 'real teachers in real classrooms, ' Borsheim-Black and Sarigianides offer theoretically grounded practical examples of and approaches to teaching texts in ways that center critical close reading, student voice, difficult discussions, and the construction and maintenance of race in the canon and society."" --Journal of Language and Literacy Education "" Letting Go of Literary Whiteness is an important resource for White English teachers looking to racialize the canonical texts in majority White environments."" --Education Review Letting Go of Literary Whiteness is an important and accessible text that pulls no punches while drawing examples from the authors' own practice to squarely address ways to implement antiracist literature instruction in all classrooms, with particular attention to the challenges of antiracist literature teaching in White-dominant schools. --Teachers College Record"


Letting Go of Literary Whiteness is an important and accessible text that pulls no punches while drawing examples from the authors' own practice to squarely address ways to implement antiracist literature instruction in all classrooms, with particular attention to the challenges of antiracist literature teaching in White-dominant schools. --Teachers College Record


Letting Go of Literary Whiteness is an important resource for White English teachers looking to racialize the canonical texts in majority White environments. --Education Review Letting Go of Literary Whiteness is an important and accessible text that pulls no punches while drawing examples from the authors' own practice to squarely address ways to implement antiracist literature instruction in all classrooms, with particular attention to the challenges of antiracist literature teaching in White-dominant schools. --Teachers College Record


In Letting Go of Literary Whiteness, Carlin Borsheim-Black and Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides explore pathways for developing educators' racial consciousness by interrogating literary works through the lens of critical race theory. --English Education Using the experiences of 'real teachers in real classrooms, ' Borsheim-Black and Sarigianides offer theoretically grounded practical examples of and approaches to teaching texts in ways that center critical close reading, student voice, difficult discussions, and the construction and maintenance of race in the canon and society. --Journal of Language and Literacy Education Letting Go of Literary Whiteness is an important resource for White English teachers looking to racialize the canonical texts in majority White environments. --Education Review Letting Go of Literary Whiteness is an important and accessible text that pulls no punches while drawing examples from the authors' own practice to squarely address ways to implement antiracist literature instruction in all classrooms, with particular attention to the challenges of antiracist literature teaching in White-dominant schools. --Teachers College Record


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Carlin Borsheim-Black is associate professor of English Education at Central Michigan University. Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides is professor of English Education at Westfield State University.

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