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Special Issues, Volume 2: Racial Literacy

Special Issues, Volume 2: Racial Literacy

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by Ayanna F. Brown

Published by: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

Imprint: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

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9780814145005
Published: February 2023

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This volume questions what constitutes literacy in a society organized by race as an inquiry, to deepen the significance for why K–20 learners must develop knowledges that support their abilities to process and ultimately transform racism. With this collection of original essays, editor Ayanna F. Brown helps to push the field of racial literacy into new directions, to avoid niceties and other pitfalls, to get to the heart of racial understanding, to better respond to the needs of our students and society. This volume brings forth emerging scholars who seek to respond to the sociopolitical and sociohistorical aspects of racial literacy as it relates to youth. The scholarship grapples with how educators at every level think through racial literacy in their work and within their experiences. Each contribution adds depth to the question of agency and illuminates why racial literacy work extends social justice efforts to become a call for a culture of teaching and learning that recenters liberation as an active pursuit.

07 Dedication

AYANNA F. BROWN

08 What Constitutes Literacy in a Society Organized by Race? Racial Literacy as an Intellectual Imperative

AYANNA F. BROWN

18 From Talking about Race to Pursuing Freedom: An Autoethnography of a Black Educator

DANEELL D. MOORE

23 Developing Racial Literacy in a Community College First-Year Composition (FYC) Course

JORDAN BELL

35 The Making of Abolitionist Classroom Community: A Call for Critical Collective Practices in the English Classroom

KIA TURNER

43 Promoting Racial Literacy through Exposure to Critical Texts

BERNNADETTE BEST-GREEN

50 “I’m Gonna Have to Learn More about That!”: Using Thinking Routines and Text Sets to Foster Racial Consciousness

MICHELLE STREED

59 Racial Literacy in the Elementary Classroom

ANNIE DALY

68 Trading Races: Using Play to Ignite Racial Literacy

JALESA D. PARKS

76 Burning Fires: Destruction and Creation in a Multicultural Literature Classroom

HANNAH EDBER

87 Learning to Name and Disrupt Racism: Supporting Latinx Students’ Racial Literacy in Ethnic Studies Classrooms

ARTURO NEVÁREZ

95 Racial Literacy to Address Racial Ill-literacy among International Students

NASIBA NOROVA

103 Decentering Whiteness and “Native” English Speakerness: Hands-On Strategies in College English Classrooms

QIANQIAN ZHANG-WU

108 Re-Centering Community and Sociopolitical Context in Racial Literacy Discourse in Education

JEROME E. MORRIS

113 Racial Literacy Considerations for Instruction

AYANNA F. BROWN

DR. AYANNA F. BROWN earned her BS from Tuskegee University in secondary education language arts, her MEd in curriculum and instructional leadership, and her PhD from Vanderbilt University in interdisciplinary studies: language, literacy, and sociology. Her career in education spans both public and private education, including teaching middle- level English language arts and leading college- readiness planning for urban youth with a consortium between Vanderbilt University and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools. She is an associate professor of education and cultural studies and coordinator for the Middle- Level English Language Arts major at Elmhurst University. Brown is also the author of several peer- reviewed journal articles, several book chapters, and is the coeditor of Critical Consciousness in Curricular Research: Evidence from the Field and has presented her research nationally and internationally. She is co-principal investigator for two National Science Foundation grants, RESULT and PRIDE, which work to increase BIPoC and linguistically diverse STEM majors to become teachers using literacies through culturally relevant and sustaining STEM practices.