Examining Blackness, Black Girlhood, and Identity in A Song Below Water
Presenter Bio
Christian M. Hines is an Assistant Professor of literacy and reading at Texas State University. She is a comics and young adult literature in education scholar-practitioner and a former secondary English teacher. Her research highlights the representation of Black youth and adolescents of color in literature, particularly their visual narratives in comics and graphic novels.
Jenell Igeleke Penn is a clinical assistant professor and the Director of Teacher Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. Her research and teaching centers on critical literacies and the cultivation of affirming spaces for/with teachers, youth, and researchers of Color. In her free time, Penn enjoys listening to audiobooks and spending time with her family.
Session
Panel: Teaching Black Speculative Fiction
Location
Zoom
Start Date
28-6-2024 1:15 PM
End Date
28-6-2024 2:30 PM
Abstract
In this presentation, co-authors, Christian Hines and Jenell Igeleke Penn, discuss how author Bethany Morrow uses fantasy and mythos in A Song Below Water to position Black girls as change agents who take ownership of their voices and their positions in society. Utilizing Critical Race Content Analysis (CRCA), the presenters will show how classroom teachers can use CRCA as a lens for readers to decenter white ways of knowing, to interrogate historical and contemporary expelled of racism and violence in society, and to examine the ways the three main Black girl characters in A Song Below Water exist and resist in a society that continually seeks to harm them. Hines and Penn will share sample paired texts, lessons, and assignments that extend beyond the reading of the text and engage students in multimodal and community inquiry.
Examining Blackness, Black Girlhood, and Identity in A Song Below Water
Zoom
In this presentation, co-authors, Christian Hines and Jenell Igeleke Penn, discuss how author Bethany Morrow uses fantasy and mythos in A Song Below Water to position Black girls as change agents who take ownership of their voices and their positions in society. Utilizing Critical Race Content Analysis (CRCA), the presenters will show how classroom teachers can use CRCA as a lens for readers to decenter white ways of knowing, to interrogate historical and contemporary expelled of racism and violence in society, and to examine the ways the three main Black girl characters in A Song Below Water exist and resist in a society that continually seeks to harm them. Hines and Penn will share sample paired texts, lessons, and assignments that extend beyond the reading of the text and engage students in multimodal and community inquiry.