“Price-Dennis and Sealey-Ruiz move toward a new vision of racial literacy which must include digital literacy to be relevant to students and effective as activism. Their compelling and concrete examples push forward current scholarship at the intersection of culturally relevant pedagogy, racial literacy, and digital literacy, and successfully lay the groundwork for a new set of priorities in teacher education.”
—Teachers College Record
“Drs. Price-Dennis and Sealey-Ruiz promote racial literacy as part of the essential knowledge base for educators alongside knowledge of content and pedagogy.”
—Illinois Reading Council Journal
“Detra Price-Dennis and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz have developed a bifocal lens on racial and digital literacies that seamlessly integrates theory and practice with cogent arguments and compelling examples from their research of multiple ways for advancing racial literacies in teacher education, particularly regarding crucially needed activism for equity in digital spaces. This definitive book convincingly reveals the necessity of centering race and digital literacies in K–12 classrooms by enacting racial literacy in teacher preparation and practices.”
—From the Foreword by Jabari Mahiri
“In this book, Price-Dennis and Sealey-Ruiz invite us to move beyond hoping for racial justice. They set down architecture for building antiracist teacher education. The authors stretch from research to action; historicize the ongoing crisis of racism and white supremacy; and invite literacy teacher educators to redistribute power, knowledge, and expertise leveraging digital literacy tools.”
—From the Afterword by Rebecca Rogers
“Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education is a powerfully deep and robust, concise, nuanced, compelling, transformative, and empirically based book that every single teacher—preservice and inservice—should read in the fight for racial literacies in education and beyond. Price-Dennis and Sealey-Ruiz have produced a foundational text for teachers and teacher educators as they co-construct pedagogy, curriculum, policy, systems, and institutions that center and advance racial justice in and through digital spaces. A call and a challenge to cultivate digital activism among young people, teachers, and teacher educators alike, this book teaches as it transforms.”
—H. Richard Milner IV, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Education, Vanderbilt University; author, Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There
“The need to center race and digital literacies is needed now more than ever. The United States is driven by technological advances and, sadly, racism. We can watch Black death on our phones in real time via social media. Our pedagogy must not only respond to our current state but be a vessel to speak back and for social justice. Price-Dennis and Sealey-Ruiz have given us the Blackprint to do just that. Every teacher fighting for social justice needs this book.”
—Bettina L. Love, professor of teacher education, University of Georgia
