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
Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is an award-winning Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focuses on racial literacy in teacher education, Black girl literacies, and Black and Latinx male high school students. A sought-after speaker on issues of race, culturally responsive pedagogy, and diversity, Sealey-Ruiz works with K-12 and higher education school communities to increase their racial literacy knowledge and move toward more equitable school experiences for their Black and Latinx students. Sealey-Ruiz appeared in Spike Lee’s “2 Fists Up: We Gon’ Be Alright”, a documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement and the campus protests at Mizzou. Her co-authored book [with Dr. Detra Price-Dennis] Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Toward Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces will be published in April 2021. Her first full-length collection of poetry Love from the Vortex & Other Poems (Kaleidoscope Vibrations LLC) was published in March, 2021, and her sophomore book of poetry, The Peace Chronicles will be released in Summer 2021.