SDLISE - Sandra Hughes Hassell, Keynote Speaker
On Thursday November 8th & Friday November 9th 2012 the Symposium on Diversity in LIS Education provided focused discussion on preparing all LIS students to be ready to design and deliver inclusive services to diverse populations in the Information Age.
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Anne Scott MacLeod Lecture on Diversity in Children's Literature, "Multicultural Literature as a Form of Counter-Storytelling."
Counter-storytelling is defined by Critical Race Theory scholars as "a method of telling the stories of those people whose experiences are not often told" including people of color, the poor, and members of the LGBTQ community (Solorzano & Yosso 2002, p. 26). This presentation will discuss multicultural young adult literature as a form of counter-storytelling with an emphasis on how counter-stories challenge the stereotypes often held by the dominant culture and give voice to marginalized youth.
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Sandra Hughes Hassell, Ph.D., is a professor and coordinator of the School Library Media Program in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her current research she focuses on social justice issues in youth library services, multicultural literature and its role in the literacy development of children of color, and the role of school library media specialists in education reform. Her most recent book is Urban Teens in the Library: Research and Practice (ALA, 2010) which she co-edited with Denise E. Agosto.
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