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- Title
Affirmation, Analysis, and Agency: Book Clubs as Spaces for Critical Conversations with Young Adolescent Women of Color.
- Authors
Polleck, Jody N.; Epstein, Terrie
- Abstract
This paper explores how female urban adolescents of color who participated in a literacy book club during their senior year in high school understood the impact of race, class, and gender oppression on the novels' characters, themselves, and their communities. Based on transcripts from book club discussions and interviews conducted at the end of their senior year and the end of their first year of college, the authors illustrate how participants affirmed and asserted their voices; analyzed texts for racism, sexism, and classism; and promoted their own and others' growth and sense of agency as resilient young women of color.
- Subjects
BOOK clubs (Discussion groups); CONVERSATION; WOMEN of color; GENDER; CRITICAL literacy; URBAN teenagers
- Publication
Reading Horizons, 2015, Vol 54, Issue 1, p78
- ISSN
0034-0502
- Publication type
Article