By Lee Anne Bell

Through available language and candid discussions, Storytelling for Social Justice explores the tales we inform ourselves and every different approximately race and racism in our society. Making experience of the racial structures expressed in the course of the language and pictures we stumble upon each day, this publication offers thoughts for constructing a extra severe figuring out of the way racism operates culturally and institutionally in our society. utilizing the humanities normally, and storytelling specifically, the publication examines how you can train and know about race by means of growing counter-storytelling groups that may advertise extra serious and considerate discussion approximately racism and the treatments essential to dismantle it in our associations and interactions. Illustrated all through with examples drawn from highschool study rooms, instructor teaching programs, and K-12 expert improvement courses, the booklet offers instruments for interpreting racism in addition to different problems with social justice. for each instructor who has struggled with tips on how to get the "race dialogue" going or who has suffered via silences and antagonism, the cutting edge version offered during this booklet deals a realistic and significant framework for considering and performing on tales approximately racism and other kinds of injustice.