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“arlette ingram willis”

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  • Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies

    Bearing Witness

    by Arlette Ingram Willis, Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon, Patriann Smith ...
    Drawing on the authors’ experiences as Black parents, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators, this timely book presents a multipronged approach to affirming Black lives and literacies. The authors believe change is needed—not within Black children—but in the way they are perceived and educated, particularly in reading, writing, and critical thinking across grade levels. To inform literacy ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Anti-Black Literacy Laws and Policies

    by Arlette Ingram Willis ...
    A COUNTERNARRATIVEThis groundbreaking book uncovers how anti-Black racism has informed and perpetuated anti-literacy laws, policies, and customs from the colonial period to the present day. As a counternarrative of the history of Black literacy in the United States, the book’s historical lens reveals the interlocking political and social structures that have repeatedly failed to support equity in ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S.

    Undercurrents of Race, Class, and Power in the Struggle for Meaning

    by Arlette Ingram Willis ...
    This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically. Willis analyzes the ideological and cultural foundations that underpin concepts, theories, research, tests, and interpretations ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Multiple and intersecting Identities in Qualitative Research

    Edited by Betty Merchant, Arlette Ingram Willis ...
    This book extends the current discourse on the role of cultural knowledge in qualitative research, especially research conducted by women of color within their own community. Each author reports on her attempts to conceptualize herself as a researcher while simultaneously trying to honor her cultural connectedness and knowledge.As women researchers analyzing the personal and professional contexts ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Multicultural Issues in Literacy Research and Practice

    Edited by Arlette Ingram Willis, Georgia Earnest Garcia, Rosalinda B. Barrera, Violet J. Harris ...
    This volume brings together researchers and participants from diverse groups, reflecting the different ways in which the field of multicultural literacies has been interpreted. A common theme across the chapters is attention to the ways in which elements of difference--race, ethnicity, gender, class, and language--create dynamic tensions that influence students' literacy experiences and ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

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  • The Imperative of Integration

    by Elizabeth Anderson ...
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  • Social Dominance

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  • "When the Welfare People Come"

    Race and Class in the US Child Protection System

    by Don Lash ...
    "[An] excellent overview of the child welfare system . . . Most importantly, [the author] provides a discussion of how to create true change." —Tina Lee, author of Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare SystemA groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the American child welfare system, "When the Welfare People Come" exposes the system in its totality, from ... Read more

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  • The School-to-Prison Pipeline

    Structuring Legal Reform

    by Catherine Y. Kim, Daniel J. Losen, Damon T. Hewitt ...
    An in-depth analysis of the legal entry points and remedies in the school-to-prison pipelineThe “school-to-prison pipeline” is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth—particularly children of color—out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points, from under ... Read more

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    Racism and Methodology

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  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

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