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