Making sense of the racial constructions expressed through the language and images we encounter, this book provides strategies for developing a critical understanding of how racism operates in our society.

1. Critical Teaching/Learning About Racism Through Story and the Arts: Introducing the Storytelling; 2. Stock Stories: Reproducing Racism and White Advantage; Essay #1: "Resisting Stock Stories and Learning to Teach Courageously", Lauren Anderson; 3. Concealed Stories: Reclaiming Subjugated Memory and Knowledge; Essay #2: "Unpacking History Through Place Based Learning: Concealed Stories of Asian American Resistance" , Kayhan Irani; Essay #3: "Toward Love, Liberation and Abolishing the Single Story", Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz; 4. Resistance Stories: Drawing on Antiracism Legacies to Map the Future; Essay #4: "Community Storytelling for Racial Reconciliation: Telling the Hard Stories That Can Lead to Change" , Susan M. Glisson; 5. Emerging/Transforming Stories: Challenging Racism in Everyday Life; Essay #5: "Reading the World in and Beyond the Classroom" , Vanessa D'Egidio; Essay #6: "Critical Literacy: Imagining Other Ways of Being", Maria Rivera Maulucci; 6. Cultivating a Counter-Storytelling Community: The Storytelling Model in Action; Essay #7: "The Classroom is N: A Structured Approach for Cultivating a Counter-Storytelling Community", John Madura; Essay #8: "Storytelling Gives the School Soul: Creating Counter-Storytelling Community"