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"Taking It Personally" by Ann Berlak & Sekani Moyenda

Submitted by kwilkinson on Tue, 04/01/2014 - 8:30am.

Overall Feelings:

I really enjoyed the use of narrative to act as a catalyst for larger dialogue by both authors.  I guess as I say this I am thinking that this would be every author’s intention, but given their active use of “autobiography” I believe that this allows the reader to relate to either Ann or Sekani on a deeper level.  Even if the reader falls somewhere in between these two juxtaposing perspectives, I believe that their honesty and illumination of their adaptive unconscious in conjunction with their conscious efforts to “undo” racist pedagogy is very genuine (gave me perspective--really liked it). 

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Moyenda, Sekani, and Ann Berlak. "Chp. 1, Sekani: How I Got My "Black Attitude" Problem." Taking It Personally: Racism in the Classroom from Kindergarten to College. By Sekani Moyenda. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2001. 17-33. Print.

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Moyenda, Sekani, and Ann Berlak. "Chp. 2, Ann: How I Developed and 'Obduracy of Tone'." Taking It Personally: Racism in the Classroom from Kindergarten to College." By Ann Berlak. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2001. 17-33. Print.

 

 

 

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