Centering Student Identities in Critical Media Literacy Instruction

By Sherell A. McArthur

“According to hooks (1984), ideas about race have placed African American females in a complex dual relationship to both Black culture and the dominant culture. That means that Black women have to negotiate their racialized gender in their daily interactions. Therefore, for Black girls specifically and learners of color generally, to be forced to entertain curriculum and instruction divorced from the reality of their social, political, and cultural contexts is the antithesis of engaging learners and alienates learners from schooling. Using critical media literacy is a necessary means to aid us in reimagining our society in ways that are authentic to folks living on the margins of the dominant society.” (McArthur, 2019, p. 687).

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Ethnic Studies Educators as Enemies of the State and the Fugitive Spaces of Classrooms

By Tracy Lachica Buenavista, David Stovall, Edward R. Curammeng, and Carolina Valdez

“While some might interpret our call to be enemies of the state and foster classrooms as fugitive spaces as problematic, from our standpoint, all we are asking is how can we, as Ethnic Studies educators, understand such assertions as radical love in the context of white supremacy?”

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