ERIC Number: EJ1438897
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Mar
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-8274
EISSN: EISSN-2161-8895
"Loving Blackness to Death": (Re)Imagining ELA Classrooms in a Time of Racial Chaos
Lamar L. Johnson; Johnnie Jackson; David O. Stovall; Denise Taliaferro Baszile
English Journal, v106 n4 p60-66 2017
In this article, the authors argue that the racial violence that unfolds against Black youth in various communities seeps into English language arts (ELA) classrooms. They offer a theoretical framework that centers on Black literacies that secondary ELA teachers can use to disrupt the violence and curricula and pedagogical inequities against Black youth in schools. The article concludes with a text set that is centered on Black literacies and texts that ELA teachers can use to revolutionize, (re)imagine, and sustain the humanity of Black youth.
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Racism, Violence, African Americans, Literacy, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Equal Education, Teaching Methods, English Curriculum, African American Students, African American Literature, Critical Race Theory
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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