School Age Programs and Services Committee: Fostering Racial Literacy with Children’s Literature

Grace Enriquez, Detra Price-Dennis

Abstract


The social construction of race in the United States is deeply rooted in our lives and reflected in our K-12 programs, policies, curriculum, and instructional practices. As more challenges are levied at books that reflect the lives and experiences of racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students, we propose racial literacy as a framework to guide critical conversations in response.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.21.3.38

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