Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education

Pauli Badenhorst is assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Samuel Jaye Tanner is an associate professor of English Education at The University of Iowa. Justin Grinage is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota

Contents Foreword Zachary Casey ?ix Introduction ?1 Pauli Badenhorst, Samuel Jaye Tanner, and Justin Grinage Part I: Teachers Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education 1. ?Reopening Racial Wounds: Whiteness, Affect, and Race Dialogues in the English Classroom ?15 Justin Grinage 2. ?Engaging Awareness of Race and Racism in Early-Career ELA Teaching: Interview With a High School Teacher ?26 Adison Godfrey and Pauli Badenhorst 3. ?There Is Sickness in the Soul: Considering Soul-Centered Questions While Reckoning With Whiteness in ELA Education (Commentary) ?41 Jeanine M. Staples-Dixon Part II: Students Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education 4. ?An Opportunity to Be Better: Whiteness Pedagogies in English Education ?47 Samuel Jaye Tanner 5. ?A Voice From an Inner Room: Using Personal Narrative Writing to Strengthen the Racial Competency of White Students ?58 Paul F. Walsh 6. ?The Power of Writing in a Critical Examination of Whiteness (Commentary) ?71 Jill Ewing Flynn Part III: The Nuances of Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education 7. ?Middle Grades English Language Arts, New South Classrooms, and the Prism of White Femininity ?79 Erin T. Miller, Laurie Dymes, and Spencer Salas 8. ?"Cool It for a Bit": Navigating Antiracism in One Rural Context ?90 Kelsey R. Jones-Greer 9. ?Reproduction and Contestation of White Habitus Among ELL Teachers ?101 Jenna Min Shim, Chelsea Escalante, Cynthia Helen Brock, and Cecilia J. Aragon 10. ?Reading Whiteness With a Little Help From Bakhtin (Commentary) ?114 Timothy J. Lensmire Part IV: Curriculum and Instruction for Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education 11. ?Characterizing Whiteness: Using Critical Whiteness Pedagogies to Teach BIPOC YA Literature ?121 Erin B. Stutelberg and Heidi J. Jones 12. ?The Slippery Spaciousness of Whiteness: Critical Creative Writing Pedagogy in Teacher Education ?133 Elise Toedt and Anna Schick 13. ?Resisting Whiteness While Facilitating Discussions in (Socratic) Student Seminars ?145 Abigail Rombalski 14. ?The Necessity of a Suspect Mindset: Interrupting Whiteness Through Literature Study, Creative Writing, and Whole Group Talk (Commentary) ?161 Carlin Borsheim-Black and Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides 15. Conclusion ?166 Samuel Jaye Tanner, Pauli Badenhorst, and Justin Grinage About the Editors and Contributors ?169 Index ?173

"Although this text addresses an issue that has long been a concern in education, the application of reader response theory to the ongoing issue is valuable. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." -CHOICE