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White Students' Resistance to Multicultural Literature: Breaking the Sullen Silence

Describes a writing assignment in which students study and imitate the language of a minority author. Discusses how the assignment helps negotiate conflicts when students resist multicultural literature, as their creative responses mediate between themselves and works they might otherwise find foreign and antagonistic. (SR)

• Author/Creator: Ruzich, Constance M.
• Date Published: Mar
• Journal/Secondary Title: Teaching English in the Two-Year College
• Number: 3
• Volume: 26
• Year: 1999

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Multicultural Educational Practices
• Subject: Cultural Pluralism
• Subject: English Instruction
• Subject: Higher Education
• Subject: Language Arts
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Secondary Education
• Subject: Student Attitudes
• Subject: Student Writing Models
• Subject: Writing Assignments

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