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Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade Classroom

by Kelly Sassi and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

Grades
8 - 12
Type
Journal
Published
July 2008
Publisher
NCTE

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Description

Kelly Sassi and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas describe their struggles and eventual success with students in constructing a “counternarrative to colormuteness and colorblindness”—the self-imposed student segregation and silencing of voice. Because of discussions during a Native American unit and student participation in a classroom intervention activity, interpersonal dynamics openly shifted for the better.

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