Cultural Representation
This is a metaphor for books that allow us to see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience
What is a mirror?
The two narrators in All American Boys
Who are Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins?
A term that represents when a special right, advantage, or immunity that is available to a particular person or group.
What is privilege?
The quality of a story is improved when the person creating that story is an _____ who knows what to share and how to share it with outsiders.
What is an insider?
This term is used to describe continuity and belonging between sense of self, social group attachment, and larger political context.
What is identity?
A word that represents the ability to direct or influence the behavior of others.
What is Power?
This term means to take aspects of another culture out of context for personal interest, benefit, or financial gain.
What is Appropriation?
This type of reading refers to the desire to have a pleasurable, interesting reading experience for its own sake.
What is Aesthetic Reading?
This is a metaphor for books that offer views of the world that may be real or imagined.
What is a window?
This is an individual's awareness and experience of being a member of a racial group.
What is racial identity?
This term represents the fear, prejudice, and hatred of muslims that leads to provocation and intolerance in the online and offline world
What is Islamophobia?
A term that represents the success with which the writer can reflect the cultural perspectives of the people who he or she is writing about.
What is cultural authenticity?
This type of content analysis asks readers to consider whether a work of fiction has at least two female characters who have a conversation about something other than a man.
What is The Bechdel Test?
The _______ group holds the power and authority in society relative to the subordinates and determines how that power and authority may be acceptably used.
What is dominant?
This is a lens through which you can understand that people's lives are multi-dimensional and complex.
What is Intersectionality?
This term refers to when a reading has meanings that we can apply to ourselves and consider "important"
What is relevance?
This type of reading refers to the desire to find information, directions for action, or some logical conclusion. In this type of reading, the reader will focus on what is to be carried away.
What is Efferent Reading?
This term is used to identify people who inhabited or existed in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists.
What is indigenous?
A term used to signify the extension of racial meaning to a previously racially unclassified relationship, social practice or group.
What is racialization?
Intersectionality allows leaders to pursue more effective and efficient approaches for solving social inequalities instead of a ______________ approach.
What is "one-size-fits all"?
When marginalized minority groups use derogatory labels and images to deconstruct stereotypes.
What is Reclaiming/reclamation?