"My Color of My Name": Composing Critical Self-Celebration with Girls of Color through a Feminist of Color Writing Pedagogy
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"My Color of My Name": Composing Critical Self-Celebration with Girls of Color through a Feminist of Color Writing Pedagogy
Abstract/Description
This article will explore what I have conceptualized as critical celebration within an afterschool writing club for and with Girls of Color (GOC). Using a feminist of color theoretical framework and building upon existing literature about GOC and their writing practices, critical celebration will be defined as a lens used to view GOC as important, dynamic, and brilliant in the face of an overabundance of deficitizing narratives and erasure, and to also open opportunities for girls to view the experiences and identities of GOC like them and unlike them as important sources of knowledge as they develop critical insights toward solidarity across difference. Using this definition, I will then describe the ways the feminist of color writing pedagogy engaged in this group made space for critical celebration of and by GOC, thereby offering important implications for justice-oriented literacy education, not only for GOC, but for all students.
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Date
In publication
Volume
55
Issue
3
Pages
216,218-240
Resource type
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Medium
Print
Background/context type
Conceptual
Open access/free-text available
No
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0034527X
Citation
Player, G. D. (2021). “My Color of My Name”: Composing Critical Self-Celebration with Girls of Color through a Feminist of Color Writing Pedagogy. Research in the Teaching of English, 55(3), 216,218-240.
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Theoretical
Rights
Copyright National Council of Teachers of English Feb 2021
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