Foreword / Timothy J. Lensmire
Teaching About Racism Through Literature in White Schools
Why Focus on White Educational Contexts?
Why Teach About Racism via Literary Study?
What Is Antiracist Literature Instruction and Why Take It Up?
Notes on Authorial Decisions
Designing Racial Literacy Objectives and Assessments for Literature-Based Units
Common Challenge: Glossing Over Complex Race Concepts
Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective
What You Can Do: Use Backward Planning to Design Literature Units for Racial Literacy
In the Classroom: Articulating Racial Literacy Objectives for A Raisin in the Sun
Introducing a Racialized Reader Response
Common Challenge: White Readers' Misreadings of Blackness in Literature
Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective
What You Can Do: Interrupt Whiteness via Text Selection and Literary Response
In the Classroom: Racializing White Readers' Responses to The Crossover
Unearthing Whiteness in Canonical Texts About Racism
Common Challenge: White Investments in Canonical White Savior Narratives
Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective
What You Can Do: Expose Whiteness in Canonical, White-Authored Texts
In the Classroom: Exposing Whiteness in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Applying a Critical Race Theory Lens to Literary Analysis
Common Challenge: Reinforcing Racism via Traditional Literary Analysis
Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective
What You Can Do: Apply a CRT Lens to Literary Analysis
In the Classroom: Applying a CRT Lens to To Kill a Mockingbird
CRT Analysis of One Crazy Summer
Planning for and Responding to Race Talk
Common Challenge: Managing Race Talk
Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective
What You Can Do: Use Proactive and Reactive Strategies for Managing Race Talk
Designing Assignments to Build Racial Literacy
Common Challenge: Questioning White Racial Assumptions
Why This Matters from an Antiracist Perspective
What You Can Do: Design Assignments to Scaffold Racial Literacy
In the Classroom: Using Collaborative Glossaries and Exploratory Essays
Racial Identity Work for White Teachers: A Beginning, Not an End.
