Making race visible : literacy research for cultural understanding / edited by Stuart Greene, Dawn Abt-Perkins ; foreword by Gloria Ladson-Billings ; afterword by Sonia Nieto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greene, Stuart.

Abt-Perkins, Dawn.

Series:

Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)

Language and literacy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading--United States.

Reading.

Race awareness in children.

United States.

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Race awareness in children--United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 220 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2003]

Summary:

Featuring contributions from teachers and researchers, this work opens new territory on the topics of the intersection of race with literacy research and practice.

Contents:

How can literacy research contribute to racial understanding? / Stuart Greene and Dawn Abt-Perkins

Teacher and student attitudes on racial issues: the complementarity of practitioner research and outsider research / Courtney B. Cazden

Parallax: addressing race in preservice literacy education / Arlette Ingram Willis

"Are you makin' me famous or makin' me a fool?" responsibility and respect in representation / Deborah Appleman

Negotiating race in classroom research: tensions and possibilities / Joanne Larson

Successful strategies of Latino students: bringing their worldviews to their studies / Marilyn S. Sternglass

Tenth-grade literacy and the mediation of culture, race, and class / Melanie Sperling

Reading discrimination / Patricia E. Enciso

Diversity discourses; reading race and ethnicity in and around children's writing / Colette Daiute and Hollie Jones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0807743925

0807743917

OCLC:

52477317