Mobilizing Critical Racial Literacy: Knowledge, Activism, and Pedagogy

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Educators and educational researchers who draw on a critical racial literacy approach note that such work requires a critical engagement of word (written, oral, visual), as well as the world, such as histories of race, local and global contexts and understandings of power. This panel seeks to expand the understandings of how people of color read and write their worlds in various ways, employing critical racial literacy lens as a means of understanding.

Content Area

• AREA 4. Literacy Assessment, Evaluation, and Public Policy

Chair

• Valerie Kinloch, University of Pittsburgh

Discussant

• Valerie Kinloch, University of Pittsburgh

Individual Presentations

• “I Didn’t Know I was Black”: Critical Racial Literacy Development in Black Immigrant Women - Tanja Burkhard, University of Pittsburgh

• Activism as Enacted Knowledge: Employing Critical Racial Literacy as a Tool for Advocacy of Biracial Individuals in Educational Spaces - Ashley Patterson, Penn State University

• Race Talk as Connected to Critical Racial Literacy: Teaching Black Students Histories and Contextual Understandings - DaVonna Graham, University of Pittsburgh