Full Description
Critical Storytelling in Urban Education shares poems and stories written by college students attending Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. The poets and storytellers in this gripping volume address challenges they have faced: issues of sexual abuse, racial politics, cultural identity, stigmatization of marginalized communities, immigration, and other forms of struggle within and outside of urban educational settings. They are students in Education, Communication Studies, Business, and English, among other disciplines. Academic writing has been frequently reserved to professors and doctoral students. This collection is different in that the writing of undergraduate and master students is featured. In a world of unrest, strife, and division, critical stories are sacrosanct.
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Nicholas D. Hartlep and Brandon O. Hensley
Part 1: Poetry
1. Sleepovers
Ian Aufdemberge
2. Internet Death Sentence
Victor Shaw
3. Resume
Amal Shukr
4. That Place That Feels Like Purgatory
Emma Fagan
5. Zenith
Renée McKendrick
6. Words
Heather Carr
7. Whale Watching
Justine Naj
8. Why I Teach in Urban Schools
Marvin Peterson
9. Unsolicited Callers
Anonymous 1
10. Chasing Whiteness
Kia Yang
11. A Letter to My Black Sons
Mark Spurlin
12. Woman Side One
Cece Trella
13. Final Checkmate
Zalika Aniapam
Part 2: Stories to Change the World
14. Each One, Teach One
Talias Deberry
15. Native: On Checking Boxes
Avrora Moussorlieva
16. My American Dream
Itzel Valdez Flores
17. Can You Wake Up?
Nalee Vang
18. No Strings Attached
Michael Harris
19. Good Touch, Bad Touch
Anonymous 2
20. Ua Siab Ntev
Denise Vang
21. Am I a Mother?
Jenny Kalvik
22. A White Teacher's Experience with Politics of "Colorblindness"
Drayton Cousins
23. Boy to Man
James A. Malone
24. The Effects of Mass Media and Communication Methods on the Stigmatization of Individuals with Developmental and Physical Disabilities
Allyson Webb
25. World of "Fake News": Effects of a Two-Word Phrase
DeJanay Booth
