Race in the Multiethnic Literature Classroom

Cristina Stanciu, Gary Totten, Cristina Stanciu, Gary Totten

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780252047596
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The contemporary rethinking and relearning of history and racism has sparked creative approaches for teaching the histories and representations of marginalized communities. Cristina Stanciu and Gary Totten edit a collection that illuminates these ideas for a variety of fields, areas of education, and institutional contexts.

The authors draw on their own racial and ethnic backgrounds to examine race and racism in the context of addressing necessary and often difficult classroom conversations about race, histories of exclusion, and racism. Case studies, reflections, and personal experiences provide guidance for addressing race and racism in the classroom. In-depth analysis looks at attacks on teaching Critical Race Theory and other practices for studying marginalized histories and voices. Throughout, the contributors shine a light on how a critical framework focused on race advances an understanding of contemporary and historical US multiethnic literatures for students around the world and in all fields of study.

Contributors: Kristen Brown, Nancy Carranza, Luis Cortes, Marilyn Edelstein, Naomi Edwards, Joanne Lipson Freed, Yadira Gamez, Lauren J. Gantz, Jennifer Ho, Shermaine M. Jones, Norell Martinez, Sarah Minslow, Crystal R. Pérez, Kevin Pyon, Emily Ruth Rutter, Ariel Santos, and C. Anneke Snyder

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Racial Literacies
• Part II. Race, History, and Pedagogy
• Part III. Racial Justice And Antiracism
• Part IV. Race, Racism, Empathy, and Hope
• Afterword. Breaking Master Narratives through Transformative Pedagogies: Teaching Race in the Multiethnic Classroom
• Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover