TY - BOOK
T1 - Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students
AU - Sarigianides, Sophia T
AU - Borsheim-Black, Carlin
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.tcpress.com/letting-go-of-literary-whiteness-9780807763056
M3 - Book
SN - 9780807763063
BT - Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students
ER -