| Description |
xviii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The teaching for social justice series |
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Teaching for social justice series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Curtain speech / Shirley Brice Heath -- Dismantling the single story: a prologue -- Learning the ropes: a double-dutch methodology -- Kemba's Nightmare/My Nightmare -- Traversing the Terrain -- Act I "Voices Can Be Heard": Theatre for Incarcerated Girls -- Warming Up with Girl Time -- "We All Have a Past": Staged Readings -- Building Sandcastles: The Road to Writing -- Speaking Up and Talking Back: Actors and "Spectactors" -- The Journey Toward "Home" -- Act II "Yes, and": Teaching Freedom in Confined Spaces -- Daring to Teach -- "A House Where You Are Called": Kaya -- "Completely Unqualified and Immensely Responsible": Anne -- "Little Black Girl": Zaire -- "As Long as I Wasn't the Star": Carrie Mae -- "Standing for What's Best in Them": Petulia -- "Theatre Is What Held It Together for Me": Isis -- "I Was the Identifier": Mindy -- "Drama Brat": Ginger -- "Theatre Is Like a Free Thing": Julisa -- Teaching for Social Justice -- Act III "We Try to Find Our Way Home": Formerly Incarcerated Girls Speak -- "I Came Back to Deliver a Message": Nia -- "Where I Can Feel Free All the Time": Sanaa -- "Kinda Proving Myself": Jada -- "Real Girls Can Do This": Lisa -- "I Just Want to See Everything": Janelle -- Discussion -- Act IV The Trouble with Black Girls: Racing, Classing, and Gendering the School-to-Prison Pipeline -- The Road to Good Character or Another Dead End? -- Sugar and Spice: The Remix -- The Trouble with Black Girls -- Rewriting the Script -- Act V Magic Carpets and Fairylands: Preparing for a Performance of Possibilities -- Girl Power (Not Just Programs) -- Planting the Seeds of Participation -- Learning from Student Artists -- Learning from Teaching Artists -- Some Final Thoughts -- Talk-Back/Talk-With: How Does One Applaud in Text? / Michelle Fine -- Freedom -- Commitment -- Appendix A: "Ghosts of the past" script -- Appendix B: "Beauty and the thug" script -- Appendix C: "Ride or die" script. |
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Girl Time (Program)
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Prison theater -- United States.
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Women prisoners -- Education -- United States.
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Women prisoners -- Recreation -- United States.
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Critical pedagogy -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780807752005 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0807752002 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780807752012 (hardcover: alkaline paper) |
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0807752010 (hardcover: alkaline paper) |
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