Racial literacy and the college composition classroom -- Prepare, plan, and provide : developing curricula within the racial literacy framework -- Reading, writing and multimodality : text selection in the racial literacy curriculum -- Narrative song lyrics : a text-based approach to racial literacy -- Emotion is everything : feeling and experience in the racial literacy classroom -- Personal writing and positionality : how we know what we know -- Controversial conversations : what we (don't) say -- Racial literacy as civic engagement : writing beyond the classroom -- Special considerations for secondary English education.
Summary:
"Racial literacy is vital in a society that professes meritocracy and post-racialism yet where racism and racialism continue. From the planning stages through the end of the semester, this book provides practical strategies for designing racial literacy curricula in the composition classroom and across the college curriculum"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.