Whitewashed Critical Perspectives

This volume examines revolutionary constructs in literacy education and demonstrates how they have been gentrified, whitewashed, and appropriated to lose their revolutionary edge and made palatable for the mainstream.

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Catherine Compton-Lilly is the John C. Hungerpiller Chair in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Tisha Lewis Ellison is Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at The University of Georgia in Athens, USA.

Kristen H. Perry is Professor of Literacy Education and Departmental Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Kentucky, USA.

Peter Smagorinsky is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at The University of Georgia, USA, and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

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Contributor Biographies

Foreword by Richard Milner

Chapter 1: Introduction

Catherine Compton-Lilly, Tisha Lewis Ellison, Kristen H. Perry, & Peter Smagorinsky

Chapter 2: Third and Hybrid Spaces in Literacy Scholarship and Practice: They are Different, and their Differences Matter

Peter Smagorinsky

Chapter 3: What the FOK?: An Illustrative Case of How Whitewashing Occurs in Higher Education

Kristen H. Perry

Chapter 4: Whitewashing as a Scholarly Liability: Racism and Inequity in Family Literacy Scholarship

Catherine Compton-Lilly

Chapter 5: "Stop Whitewashing our Stories": Using Counter-Stories to Dismantle Racist and Deficit Perspectives in BIPOC Narratives

Tisha Lewis Ellison

Chapter 6: Freirean Concepts: Diluted and Damaged

Rocío García-Carrión, Itxaso Tellado, & Maria Padrós

Chapter 7: Put Some Respect on the Theory: Confronting Distortions of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

Gloria Ladson-Billings & Adrienne Dixson

Chapter 8: Dialoguing and Personhood

Stephanie Power-Carter and David Bloome

Afterword by Valerie Kinloch