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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Above the Well: An Antiracist Literacy Argument from a Boy of Color

Above the Well: An Antiracist Literacy Argument from a Boy of Color

Inoue, Asao B.

Paperback

Writing InstructionGeneral EducationGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1646422244
ISBN13: 9781646422241
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Sep 1 2021
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Above the Well explores race, language and literacy education through a combination of scholarship, personal history, and even a bit of fiction. Inoue comes to terms with his own languaging practices in his upbring and schooling, while also arguing that there are racist aspects to English language standards promoted in schools and civic life. His discussion includes the ways students and everyone in society are judged by and through tacit racialized languaging, which he labels White language supremacy and contributes to racialized violence in the world today. Inoue's exploration ranges a wide array of topics: His experiences as a child playing Dungeons and Dragons with his twin brother; considerations of Taoist and Western dialectic logics; the economics of race and place; tacit language race wars waged in classrooms with style guides like Strunk and White's The Elements of Style; and the damaging Horatio Alger narratives for people of color.

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