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Cann, Colette N.; Brown, Kimberly Williams; Madden, Meredith – Teachers College Press, 2022
This book highlights the work of Rise for Racial Justice, an organization that launched a public racial literacy campaign in 2020 when the nation's interest in exploring the history and present reality of anti-Black police violence was at a high. Protests following the murder of George Floyd focused the public's attention on anti-Black racism,…
Descriptors: Race, Literacy, Racism, African Americans
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Cann, Colette N. – Whiteness and Education, 2016
This article imagines what it might look like for White people to commit to racial justice in the U.S. as if their very lives depended on its success. Inspired by the venerable storytelling of Derrick Bell, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, W. E. B. Du Bois and Adrien Wing, as well as the tradition of science fiction in Black Diasporan writing,…
Descriptors: Whites, Racial Attitudes, Social Justice, Critical Race Theory
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McCloskey, Erin; Cann, Colette N. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
In this qualitative case study, we used the framework of positioning to show how college-age tutors and their middle school tutees interact in an afterschool tutoring setting with regard to ability. The authors show how educational tracking and understandings of disability permeated tutoring spaces and influence tutors' instructional decisions.…
Descriptors: Mentors, Tutoring, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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DeMeulenaere, Eric J.; Cann, Colette N. – Qualitative Inquiry, 2013
In the field of education, critical theorists, critical pedagogues, and critical race theorists call for academics to engage in activist academic work to promote the social transformation of the material conditions created by racism and other forms of oppression. This article is a response to this call for academics, particularly those in the…
Descriptors: Activism, Critical Theory, Race, Participatory Research