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When racist curriculum goes viral on social media, it is typically dismissed as an isolated incident from a bad teacher. Educator Bree Picower, however, holds that racist curriculum isn't an anomaly. It's a systemic problem that reflects how Whiteness is embedded and reproduced in education. In Reading, Writing, and Racism, Picower argues that White teachers must reframe their understanding about race in order to advance racial justice and that this must begin in teacher-education programs.Drawing on her experience teaching and developing a program that prepares teachers to focus on social justice and antiracism, Picower demonstrates how teachers' ideology of race, consciously or unconsciously, shapes how they teach race in the classroom. She also examines current examples of racist curricula that have gone viral to demonstrate how Whiteness is entrenched in schools and how this reinforces racial hierarchies in the younger generation.With a focus on institutional strategies, Picower shows how racial justice can be built into programs across the teacher education pipeline--from admission to induction. By examining the who, what, why, and how of racial-justice teacher education, she provides radical possibilities for transforming how teachers think about, and teach about, race in their classrooms.

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Bree Picower is an associate professor of teaching and learning at Montclair State University. The co-director of the Newark Teacher Project and the Critical Urban Education Speaker Series, she is the author of Practice What You Teach: Social Justice Education in the Classroom and the Streets and the co-editor of Confronting Racism in Teacher Education and What's Race Got to Do with It? How Current School Reform Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality. For more information, visit BreePicower.com. Cindy Kay is an audiobook narrator who enjoys knitting, adding to her massive list of restaurants to try, suffering with friends in group exercise classes and telling stories to people she's never met. She was raised in the California Bay Area.

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