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Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Cultural Understanding » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Cultural Understanding by Stuart Greene

Authors: Stuart Greene, Dawn Abt-Perkins
ISBN-13: 9780807743911, ISBN-10: 0807743917
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Stuart Greene

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction: How Can Literary Research Contribute to Racial Understanding?1
1Teacher and Student Attitudes on Racial Issues: The Complementarity of Practitioner Research and Outsider Research35
2Parallax: Addressing Race in Preservice Literacy Education51
3"Are You Makin' Me Famous or Makin' Me a Fool?" Responsibility and Respect in Representation71
4Negotiating Race in Classroom Research: Tensions and Possibilities89
5Successful Strategies of Latino Students: Bringing Their Worldviews to Their Studies107
6Tenth-Grade Literacy and the Mediation of Culture, Race, and Class131
7Reading Discrimination149
8Diversity Discourses: Reading Race and Ethnicity in and around Children's Writing178
Afterword201
About the Contributors207
Index211

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