Teaching While White - Addressing the Intersections of Race and Immigration in the Classroom

This book endeavors to cultivate activism literacies in White teachers in order to disrupt the system of white supremacy and racial oppression in education. This book focuses primarily on White teachers' responsibility in becoming advocates for, and accomplices to communities of color.

List of contents

Introduction
Section I: Disrupting the Single Story of Histories
Chapter 1: Who are Americans? Disrupting Imagined Histories of Immigration
Chapter 2: Race and Immigration: Intersections of Histories and Identities
Chapter 3: Deficit and Microaggressive Discourses: Unmasking the Language of White Supremacy
Section II: Disrupting the Single Story in Curriculum
Chapter 4: Cultivating a Critical Classroom Community from Day One
Chapter 5: Critical Approaches to Curricular Change
With contributions from Drew Gingrich
Chapter 6: Critical Media Literacy: Fake News, Trolls, and Memes
With contributions from Drew Gingrich
Section III: What Disruption Looks Like: Supporting Teacher Activism
Chapter 7: Teacher Research as Activism
Chapter 8: Allies and Accomplices: What White Teachers Should Know and Do
Chapter 9: Making Your Case: Building Relationships, Not Walls
With contributions from Drew Gingrich
Additional Recommended Resources
About the Author
About the Contributor

About the author

By Laura A. Roy - Contributions by Drew Gingrich

Summary

This book endeavors to cultivate activism literacies in White teachers in order to disrupt the system of white supremacy and racial oppression in education. This book focuses primarily on White teachers' responsibility in becoming advocates for, and accomplices to communities of color.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Roy, Laura A. Roy, Laura A./ Gingrich Roy
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781475840377
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-4037-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / General, Educational strategies & policy, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Languages other than English, Educational strategies and policy, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General