Overview

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
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9780807763056

ISBN 10:   0807763055
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   06 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Foreword Timothy J. Lensmire ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Teaching About Racism Through Literature in White Schools 1 Why Focus on White Educational Contexts? 3 Why Teach About Racism via Literary Study? 6 What Is Antiracist Literature Instruction and Why Take It Up? 10 Notes on Authorial Decisions 12 2. Designing Racial Literacy Objectives and Assessments for Literature-Based Units  15 Common Challenge: Glossing Over Complex Race Concepts 15 Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective 17 What You Can Do: Use Backward Planning to Design Literature Units for Racial Literacy 19 In the Classroom: Articulating Racial Literacy Objectives for A Raisin in the Sun 26 Conclusion 32 3. Introducing a Racialized Reader Response 33 Common Challenge: White Readers’ Misreadings of Blackness in Literature 33 Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective 34 What You Can Do: Interrupt Whiteness via Text Selection and Literary Response 42 In the Classroom: Racializing White Readers’ Responses to The Crossover 48 Conclusion 50 4. Unearthing Whiteness in Canonical Texts About Racism 51 Common Challenge: White Investments in Canonical White Savior Narratives 51 Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective 52 What You Can Do: Expose Whiteness in Canonical, White-Authored Texts 56 In the Classroom: Exposing Whiteness in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  59 Conclusion 71 5. Applying a Critical Race Theory Lens to Literary Analysis  72 Common Challenge: Reinforcing Racism via Traditional Literary Analysis 72 Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective 73 What You Can Do: Apply a CRT Lens to Literary Analysis  74 In the Classroom: Applying a CRT Lens to To Kill a Mockingbird 79 CRT Analysis of One Crazy Summer 85 Conclusion 85 6. Planning for and Responding to Race Talk  88 Common Challenge: Managing Race Talk 89 Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective 91 What You Can Do: Use Proactive and Reactive Strategies for Managing Race Talk 93 Conclusion 106 7. Designing Assignments to Build Racial Literacy 107 Common Challenge: Questioning White Racial Assumptions 107 Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective  108 What You Can Do: Design Assignments to Scaffold Racial Literacy 109 In the Classroom: Using Collaborative Glossaries and Exploratory Essays 110 Racial Identity Work for White Teachers 119 A Beginning, Not an End 122 References 123 Index 133 About the Authors 145

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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"

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

Author Information

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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