Teaching Racial Literacy: Reflective Practices for Critical Writing - Hardcover

Grayson, Mara Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1475836600 ISBN 13: 9781475836608

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018

Synopsis

Racial literacy, a collection of discursive and decoding skills that allow individuals to interrogate race and racism as well as representation and personal identity, is vital in a contemporary society that professes meritocracy and post-racialism yet where racism and racialism continue to give rise to fear, violence, and inequity. Because racial literacy requires individuals to develop a cache of discursive tools with which to critically read and respond to particular situations and broader societal practices as well as to investigate the rhetorical practices and power of racial ideology, there is no venue better fitted to the development of racial literacy than the college composition classroom.
From the planning stages through the end of the semester, this book provides practical strategies for designing and implementing racial literacy curricula in the composition classroom and across the curriculum. Drawing upon an award-winning three-year ethnographic teacher research project, the author offers curricular suggestions and teacher resources instructors can use to increase student engagement, improve student writing, and help students harness the tools of racial literacy, including awareness of structural inequity and discursive modes with which to respond to social injustice.

About this title

About the Author

Mara Lee Grayson, PhD, has been teaching and researching the racial literacy curriculum in undergraduate composition studies and graduate-level teacher education for the past five years. She currently teaches in the English department at Pace University. Learn more at maragrayson.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1475836600
• ISBN 13: 9781475836608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168