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Hispanic Representation in Literature for Children and Young Adults (1998)

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Hispanic Representation in Literature for Children and Young Adults (1998)

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"Unfortunately, however, if materials that allow students to see themselves presented in a positive light do not exist, it is much more difficult for educators to make the curriculum "exciting" and relevant. As a literacy professor, and one who has been asked to provide reading lists for schools with Hispanic populations, I have an obligation to know books and the audiences they serve."

" This lack of Hispanic representation in popular books appeared odd, particularly in light of the fact that Hispanics are the fastest growing minority in the U.S., with a 28% population increase expected by the year 2000 (Bureau of the Census, 1996-1997)."

"Given that there is poor representation of
Hispanics in children's and young adult (YA) literature, what are the ramifications? How exactly does
this situation affect students? What are the reasons
for this poor representation? What can be done
about it?"

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Prietita y el Otro Lado: Gloria Anzaldúa's Literature for Children (2006)

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Prietita y el Otro Lado: Gloria Anzaldúa's Literature for Children (2006)

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"It soon became clear that there was a need for books that provided cultural knowledge and role models for children. In elementary and middle schools, most books represented mainstream children and children's lives. Children of color would never see them selves reflected in these narratives."

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Antiracist Pedagogy and Empowerment in a Bilingual Classroom in the U.S., circa 2006 (2008)

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Antiracist Pedagogy and Empowerment in a Bilingual Classroom in the U.S., circa 2006 (2008)

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The Legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa: Finding a Place for Women of Color in Academia (2008)

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The Legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa: Finding a Place for Women of Color in Academia (2008)

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"I find that searching out and analyzing each of these steps within Anzaldua's work, new strategies can be found—strategies that may help expand the place of Latinos in the standard English canon, both within the areas of literature and theory."

"I had never read anything that spoke to me in that way. She understood and articulated the experience of Chicanas who are not only situated between cultures, but who also face the oppression of their Mexican counterparts."

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A Plea for Critical Race TheoryCounterstory: Stock Story vs. Counterstory Dialogues Concerning Alejandra’s“Fit” in the Academy (2014)

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A Plea for Critical Race TheoryCounterstory: Stock Story vs. Counterstory Dialogues Concerning Alejandra’s“Fit” in the Academy (2014)

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"Despite important contributions from scholars such as Keith Gilyard, Shirley Wilson Logan, and Jacqueline Jones Royster, Latin@s in this field have but two influences significantly referencing a theory on race scholarship
concerning Latin@s—Gloria Anzaldúa and Victor Villanueva."

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"It's Pretty Much White": Challenges and Opportunities of an Antiracist Approach to Literature Instruction in a Multilayered White Context (2015)

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"It's Pretty Much White": Challenges and Opportunities of an Antiracist Approach to Literature Instruction in a Multilayered White Context (2015)

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"She applied principles of antiracist pedagogy: she prioritized a focus on institutional racism, she integrated texts to honor voices of people of color, she engaged students in reading against racial ideologies in TKAM, and she encouraged students to reflect on Whiteness through open dialogue (cf., Au, 2009; Banks, 2004; May, 1998; Nieto, 19)."

"Although specific titles have changed over
time, there has been remarkable stability in the dominance of White authors. The lack of voices of people of color in typical literature curriculum, this research asserts, constitutes a hidden curriculum that perpetuates Whiteness as normal and neutral."

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Efren Divided (book by Efren Cisneros) (2020)

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Efren Divided (book by Efren Cisneros) (2020)

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Efren Cisnero's website gives you Teaching Resources while reading his book "Efren Divided."

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"Authentically told, and interwoven with hope, strength, and beauty. This book is a gift to the world."

- Sarah Scheerger, author of

Operation Frog Effect

"A beautiful seed of heartbreak and joy!"

- Aida Salazar, author of

The Moon Within and Land of the Cranes

"A song sung for children of immigrants. A corrido in their honor."

-Isabel Quintero, author of Gabi, a Girl in Pieces and Mi Papi Has a Motorcycle

"This debut announces an important new writer on the scene."

- Fred Aceves, author of The Closest I've Come & The New David Espinoza

"Efrén Divided will find its way straight into your heart, even as it is breaking. "

- Matt Mendez, author of Barely Missing Everything and Twitching Heart

"A moving portrayal of the shame, fear, and uncertainty of a family ripped apart."

- Aimée Medina Carr, author of

River of Love

"From the opening pages I found myself completely immersed in a world so different from mine, yet just a neighborhood away."

--Author/Illustrator Steve Bjorkman

Ambassador of School Libraries for Scholastic, Lecturer at Rutgers, and Newbery Committee member (2014).

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"Authentically told, and interwoven with hope, strength, and beauty. This book is a gift to the world." - Sarah Scheerger, author of Operation Frog Effect "A beautiful seed of heartbreak and joy!" - Aida Salazar, author of The Moon Within and Land of the Cranes "A song sung for children of immigrants.

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Episode 14: Practicing Anti-Racist Pedagogy with Alisa Sánchez, Carlos Delgado, and Jessi Johnson (2021)

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Episode 14: Practicing Anti-Racist Pedagogy with Alisa Sánchez, Carlos Delgado, and Jessi Johnson (2021)

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We continue the conversation about dismantling White supremacy and systems of oppression, especially in higher education, with Professors Alisa Sánchez, Carlos Delgado, and Jessi Johnson of the USC Writing Program. In this episode we talk about anti-racist pedagogy and ways we can uphold inclusive values and practices in the writing classroom.

Based on recommendations from our guests, we've added more resources to the Anti-Racist Reading List. We invite you to read, to listen, and to learn.

This episode was recorded on June 5. Please be aware that, because we recorded via Zoom, there are occasional audio hiccups. Our theme song is "4 am" by Makaih Beats. You can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher and follow us on Twitter @writingremixpod.

People and Texts Mentioned in the Episode

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

They Say / I Say by Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White

Richard Lanham

Kimberly Jones: "How Can We Win?"

"Diversity is not the same as anti-racism." -Jessi Johnson
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"The objections seem to imply: yes, we begin from an unacceptable premise of White supremacy, but your ideas challenge White supremacy, so we can't do your idea. It's this amazing contradiction that academia continues to uphold." @C_A_Delgado
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"Our students are coming into the classroom multilingual. That can mean literal languages. That can mean backgrounds, knowledges, perspectives. [We want to] give each of those languages equal agency." -Jessi Johnson
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"Multimodality [means offering] different modes into the classroom space so it's more inclusive...deconstructing the traditional academic essay, or saying there's more than one way to approach the academic essay." -Jessi Johnson
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"Code-meshing is the idea that you can equally value all ways of speaking and all codes and all ways of thinking...So you don't only have to say you can only use standard Western English and that's the only way you're going to get an A. It's instead to say you come from a multitude of languages and ways of expressing your codes, and we want to mesh them all, rather than forcing you to switch back and forth between them." -Jessi Johnson
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"We have so many intersecting aspects of ourselves and so many different identities that all converge to make us very unique people, and we want to make space in the classroom for those intersecting identities." -Jessi Johnson
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"There are a thousand assumptions, invisible assumptions, that people who don't get this work are making-and they don't even know they're making-about the history of Empire and the history of violence and who gets to say what English is right, who gets to say what English is good. We as gatekeepers have the opportunity to address some of that, but when our assumptions are built in...to give somebody a C- because they couldn't talk like I do, it's an extension of that violence." @C_A_Delgado
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"I really do and really don't want to be tender with people because I love other people and we're all human here...At the same time, it often feels like a betrayal, and a betrayal of myself, like I'm suppressing my anger and my pain in order to to be able to do my language and my affect and everything in the right way in order to not just be heard but be heard in a way that will start to make in-roads." -Alisa Sánchez
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"There is a tradition within Western thinking and writing that cherishes and loves the rebel...There is a long tradition of especially White men saying 'Be free in your writing!'-until Black people are trying to write that way." @C_A_Delgado
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"I really want to show people their anti-Blackness and then invite them to cross a gap. That's my hope in all of this." @C_A_Delgado
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"Allyship [in the classroom] means not assuming that your students know that you are for them. It's speaking up and actually voicing that." -Jessi Johnson
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"The rubric becomes this terrible source of power for gatekeeping...So what I do is we get rid of the rubric, and we build it from the ground up collaboratively." -Jessi Johnson
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"It's no longer just about diversity; it's about expressing their intersecting identities, and it's about valuing those identities. Literally valuing. I will give you a grade, and I will value this identity. And that's anti-racism." -Jessi Johnson
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"It's as though we forget once students enter the classroom that they got into college because they wrote a personal essay. They got into college because they know how to write." @C_A_Delgado
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"Rather than have [students] practice the 'genre'...teach them how to read genre...Otherwise we're just re-hashing a version of the five-paragraph essay." @C_A_Delgado
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"It's about teaching those skills of critical thinking and critical reading and making choices as a writer...but it's about being able to do those while being who you are and while not having to assimilate to a White identity." -Alisa Sánchez
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"[I've seen] the damage that [assimilation] can do, and it's damage not only to individual students but that also ripples out and becomes collective trauma." -Alisa Sánchez
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"That's why [it's important] to welcome people to write in all of their languages and to be who they are. Since writing is so vulnerable and so powerful, that is a really important site in which to make sure we're doing that work as teachers." -Alisa Sánchez
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"What we teach is what will continue." -Jessi Johnson
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"Thinking about this time and what to take from this...it's to invest in the long-term transformations...that we transform knowledge production and we transform the academy and we transform writing and that it's happening through our students...I see again and again that they are the ones who are-through their writing and the way that they do their work-shifting things and making change and creating that space." -Alisa Sánchez
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Episode 14: Practicing Anti-Racist Pedagogy with Alisa Sánchez, Carlos Delgado, and Jessi Johnson

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We continue the conversation about dismantling White supremacy and systems of oppression, especially in higher education, with Professors Alisa Sánchez, Carlos Delgado, and Jessi Johnson of the USC Writing Program. In this episode we talk about anti-racist pedagogy and ways we can uphold inclusive values and practices in the writing classroom.

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For a list of recommended books, please follow this link to my blog for teachers about Translingualism and Multimodality. Specifically, view the section that's titled "Recommended Books."