Reckoning with the Whiteness of English Education

Pauli Badenhorst is assistant professor in the Department of Teaching & Learning at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.Samuel Jaye Tanner is an associate professor of English Education at The University of Iowa.Justin Grinage is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota

• Introduction—Pauli Badenhorst, Samuel Jaye Tanner, and Justine GrinageSection 1:Teachers Reckoning with the Whiteness of English EducationReopening Racial Wounds: Whiteness, Affect, and Race Dialogues in the English Classroom—Justin GrinageEngaging Awareness of Race and Racism in Early-Career ELA Teaching: Interview with a High School Teacher—Adison Godfrey and Pauli BadenhorstThere is Sickness in the Soul: Considering Soul-Centered Questions While Reckoning With Whiteness in ELA Education (Commentary)—Jeanine StaplesSection 2:Students Reckoning with the Whiteness of English EducationAn Opportunity to Be Better: Whiteness Pedagogies in English Education—SamuelJayeTannerA Voice from an Inner Room: Using Personal Narrative Writing to Strengthen the Racial Competency of White Students—Paul F. Walsh The Power of Writing in a Critical Examination of Whiteness (Commentary)—Jill Ewing FlynnSection 3:The Nuances of Reckoning with the Whiteness of English EducationMiddle Grades English Language Arts, New South Classrooms, and The Prism of White Femininity—Erin T. Miller, Laurie Dymes, and Spencer Salas "Cool it for a bit": Navigating Antiracism in One Rural Context—Kelsey R. Jones-GreerReproduction and Contestation of White Habitus Among ELL Teachers—JennaMin Shim, Chelsea Escalante, Cynthia Helen Brock, and Cecelia J. AragonReading Whiteness with a Little Help from Bakhtin (Commentary) Timothy J. LensmireSection 4:Writing and Discussion in Reckoning with the Whiteness of English EducationCharacterizing Whiteness: Using Critical Whiteness Pedagogies to Teach BIPOC YA Literature—Erin Stutelberg and Heidi J. JonesThe Slippery Spaciousness of Whiteness: Critical Creative Writing Pedagogy in Teacher Education—Elise Toedt and Anna Schick Resisting Whiteness While Facilitating Discussions in Student Seminars—Abby RombalskiThe Necessity of a Suspect Mindset: Interrupting Whiteness Through Literature Study, Creative Writing, and Whole Group Talk (Commentary)—Carlin Borscheim-Black and Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides About the Editors and Authors

"Although this text addresses an issue that has long been a concern in education, the application of reader response theory to the ongoing issue is valuable. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty."—CHOICE