Whitewashed critical perspectives : restoring the edge to edgy ideas / edited by Catherine Compton-Lilly, Tisha Lewis Ellison, Kristen H. Perry, Peter Smagorinsky.

Acknowledgements -- Editor biographies -- Contributor biographies -- Foreword by Richard Milner -- Chapter 1: introduction / Catherine Compton-Lilly, Tisha Lewis Ellison, Kristen Perry, & Peter Smagorinsky -- Chapter 2: third and hybrid spaces in literacy scholarship and practice: they are different, and their differences matter / Peter Smagorinsky -- Chapter 3: what the FOK?: an illustrative case of how whitewashing occurs in higher education / Kristen Perry -- Chapter 4: whitewashing as a scholarly liability: racism and inequity in family literacy scholarship / Catherine Compton-Lilly -- Chapter 5: "stop whitewashing our stories:" counter-storytelling and resistance in the academy and research / Tisha Lewis Ellison -- Chapter 6: freirean concepts: diluted and damaged / Rocío García-Carrión, Itxaso Tellado, & Maria Padrós -- Chapter 7: put some respect on the theory: confronting distortions of culturally relevant pedagogy / Gloria Ladson-Billings & Adrienne Dixson -- Chapter 8: dialoguing and personhood / Stephanie Power-Carter and David Bloome -- Afterword by Valerie Kinloch.

"This volume examines revolutionary constructs in literacy education and demonstrates how they have been gentrified, whitewashed, and appropriated to lose their revolutionary edge and made palatable for the mainstream. Written by top scholars in literacy education, chapters cover key concepts that were originally conceived as radical theories to upset the status quo-including Third Space, Funds of Knowledge, Culturally Relevant Pedagogies, and more. Each chapter addresses how the core theory was culturally appropriated and de-fanged to support rather than take down racial and societal hierarchies. Critiquing the harmful impact of watering down these theories, the contributors offer ways to restore the edge to these once groundbreaking ideas, reject racist and assimilationist trends, and support the original vision behind these liberatory theories. In so doing, this volume adopts a truly radical, critical stance that is essential for researchers, scholars, and students in literacy education"-- Provided by publisher.