1. Critical Conversations on Whiteness With Young Adult Literature.
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Schieble, Melissa
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CRITICAL literacy , *YOUNG adult literature , *SECONDARY education -- Social aspects , *WHITENESS studies , *SOCIAL justice education , *REFLEXIVITY , *RACE in literature , *CRITICAL race theory , *LITERATURE & society - Abstract
The article discusses the use of young adult literature to teach secondary school students about the treatment of whiteness in literature through critical conversations. It addresses the use of social justice pedagogy in the classroom, as well as notes the lack of academic conversations about race in secondary education. It uses the lenses of critical literacy and critical race theory to interpret whiteness. Other topics explored include the relationship between characters of different races in literature, multiple representations of whiteness, and reflexivity.
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- 2012
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