num_pages: 160
description: 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.
language: English
title: Letting Go of Literary Whiteness: Antiracist Literature Instruction for White Students
publisher: Teachers College Press