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New 起点传媒Texts and the 2022 African American Read-In

During February, the month of the African American Read-In, we continue our theme of spotlighting connections with thoughtful 起点传媒texts.

by Lamar L. Johnson

Johnson鈥檚 visionary and much-needed book is a call for the transformation of English education to embrace rather than reject Blackness.

 

 

聽by April Baker-Bell

Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle anti-Black linguistic racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts.

 

by Thomas Crisp, Suzanne M. Knezek, and Roberta Price Gardner (eds.)

This edited volume brings together ongoing professional conversations about diverse children鈥檚 books and the role and function of nonfiction and informational text in K鈥�8 classrooms.

 

by Detra Price-Dennis (ed.)

This first volume of聽Special Issues: Racial Literacy聽gathers some of the most compelling and practical recent articles across 起点传媒journals, addressing the importance of racial literacy and its implications for curriculum, pedagogy, and policy.

 

by Sakeena Everett (ed.)

This curated collection shows how to help K-college teachers integrate the most up-to-date approaches to trauma-informed teaching into their particular classroom environments.

 

聽by Nathaniel Bryan

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Drawing on Black Critical Theory and Black Male Studies, and applying portraiture methodology, Bryan explores experiences of Black boys and their male teachers in ways that affirm their humanity and acknowledge the consequences of existing in a white supremacist system.

 

by Kindel Turner Nash, Crystal Polite Glover, and Bilal Polson (eds.)

This book shares the stories of four teacher-teacher dyads who worked together across university-school contexts to study, generate, and evaluate culturally relevant and sustaining literacy practices in early childhood classrooms across the country.

 

聽by聽Valerie Kinloch, Emily A. Nemeth, Tamara T. Butler, and Grace D. Player

The authors share their story of working with students, teachers, teacher educators, families, community members, and union leaders to create transformative practices within and beyond public school classrooms.

NEW! by Ayanna F. Brown (ed.)

With this collection of original essays, editor Ayanna F. Brown helps to push the field of racial literacy into new directions, to avoid niceties and other pitfalls, to get to the heart of racial understanding, to better respond to the needs of our students and society.

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