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Direct linkDutro, Elizabeth; Kazemi, Elham; Balf, Ruth – Language Arts, 2005
This article discusses children's experiences with a literacy project intended to celebrate the cultures represented in a highly diverse fourth/fifth grade urban elementary classroom. However, when other children questioned the claimed identities of three biracial children, the project was transformed from a rather straightforward attempt to…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Race, Multiracial Persons, Literacy Education
