Title: Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education
Author(s): Detra Price-Dennis, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 9780807765500 Pages: 144 Year: 2021
Hitting Racism Where It Lives Now: In their new book, Detra Price-Dennis and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz take on technology in education
As I was walking down the hall of a suburban middle school, I saw a small group of Black female students talking near the entrance. I greeted them and continued toward the office. After a few steps in the opposite direction, I heard one of them say, “She must be a substitute. We don’t ever have no Black teachers in this building.”
Detra Price-Dennis’s memory of one of her early experiences as a public school teacher distills half the rationale for Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces, the new book by Price-Dennis and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz that was published this week by Teachers College Press: the gulf in experience, cultural frame of reference, language, and perspective between America’s overwhelmingly White teaching force and a student population that consists predominantly of youth who are BIPOC (Black, indigenous, or people of color).
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