Teaching Racial Literacy
eBook - ePub

Teaching Racial Literacy

Reflective Practices for Critical Writing

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eBook - ePub

Teaching Racial Literacy

Reflective Practices for Critical Writing

About this book

Racial literacy, a collection of discursive and decoding skills that allow individuals to interrogate race and racism as well as representation and personal identity, is vital in a contemporary society that professes meritocracy and post-racialism yet where racism and racialism continue to give rise to fear, violence, and inequity. Because racial literacy requires individuals to develop a cache of discursive tools with which to critically read and respond to particular situations and broader societal practices as well as to investigate the rhetorical practices and power of racial ideology, there is no venue better fitted to the development of racial literacy than the college composition classroom.
From the planning stages through the end of the semester, this book provides practical strategies for designing and implementing racial literacy curricula in the composition classroom and across the curriculum. Drawing upon an award-winning three-year ethnographic teacher research project, the author offers curricular suggestions and teacher resources instructors can use to increase student engagement, improve student writing, and help students harness the tools of racial literacy, including awareness of structural inequity and discursive modes with which to respond to social injustice.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: Racial Literacy and the College Composition Classroom
  5. Chapter 2: Prepare, Plan, and Provide
  6. Chapter 3: Reading, Writing, and Multimodality
  7. Chapter 4: Narrative Song Lyrics
  8. Chapter 5: Emotion Is Everything
  9. Chapter 6: Personal Writing and Positionality
  10. Chapter 7: Controversial Conversations
  11. Chapter 8: Racial Literacy as Civic Engagement
  12. Chapter 9: Special Considerations for Secondary English Education
  13. Afterword
  14. References and Additional Resources for Instructors and Students
  15. About the Author