Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students

By Carlin Borsheim-Black and Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides

Book 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807763055
• ISBN13: 9780807763056
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"