Reckoning With the Whiteness of English Education: Transformative Pedagogies in English Language Arts and Beyond

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. Aragón

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