Critical Conversations on Whiteness with Young Adult Literature

Autor/in	Schieble, Melissa
Titel	Critical Conversations on Whiteness with Young Adult Literature
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 56 (2012) 3, S.212-221 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1081-3004
DOI	10.1002/JAAL.00130
Schlagwörter	Adolescent Literature; Novels; Social Class; Young Adults; Critical Literacy; Teaching Methods; Controversial Issues (Course Content); Gender Issues; Critical Theory; Discourse Analysis; Whites; Classroom Techniques; Didacticism; Literary Criticism; Social Characteristics; Social Differences; Social Status + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Novel; Roman; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Kritisches Lesen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Controversial issues; Kontroverse; Geschlechterfrage; Kritische Theorie; Diskursanalyse; White; Weißer; Klassenführung; Didaktisierung; Literaturkritik; Gesellschaftsbild; Sozialer Unterschied; Sozialer Status
Abstract	In this article, the author argues that whiteness remains an overwhelmingly absent dimension in literacy teaching that addresses systems of power from a critical perspective. One way literacy teachers may bring this dimension more explicitly into the classroom is by facilitating critical conversations on whiteness with young adult literature. As whiteness is neither a fixed nor static category, the author analyzes whiteness as intersected with multiple identity markers such as social class and gender in two young adult novels that are popular with adolescents and taught in middle and high school classrooms. The author concludes with recommendations for literacy teachers on how to bring whiteness more explicitly into critical literacy teaching and learning. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10