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Teaching 'The House on Mango Street': engaging race, class, and gender in a white classroom.

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| December 22, 2002 | Ryan, Kathleen J. | COPYRIGHT 2002 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

What we read, and how we talk and write about it in the classroom, offers meaningful possibilities for the interrogation of class and cultural privilege. In "Teaching The House on Mango Street: Engaging Race, Class and Gender in a White Classroom" I rely on Louise Rosenblatt's reading theories, Maria Lugones's political theories, and strategies of engaged pedagogy to discuss ways in which white, privileged teachers can encourage white, privileged students to recognize themselves as raced, classed and gendered so that they can begin to think more fully about the whys of their cultural dominance. I consider how the act of reading as a dialogic relationship ...

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