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1A Counter-Story
Counter-Storytelling
Why Counter Stories?
How might this knowledge of counter stories, and their purpose, influence:
- Our research and choice of evidence?
- The presentation of this evidence in our arguments?
To what extent is Grande's memoir a Counter-Story?
Single Story vs.
Counter-Story
What is a "single story"?
- Stories created by the majoritarian groups about those in the marginalized groups.
- EX: Stereotypes; assumptions
Finding Your Voice
"By diving into the experience of writing, you will learn what you really think and who you really are. Self-exploration is a way to pay attention to the world, within yourself, and outside yourself..."
Freewrite!
Chimamanda Adichie "The Danger of the Single Story"
I am...
- Mary Pipher "Writing to Change the World"
Why Counter-Stories?
Counter-stories can expose, analyze, and thus challenge commonly held beliefs, stereotypes, and characterizations of marginalized groups.
What is a Counter-Story?
"and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive"
- Audre Lorde, "The Black Unicorn" (1978)
Solorzano & Yosso define counter-storytelling as “a method of telling the stories of those people whose experiences are not often told” (32).
To what extent is Grande's memoir a counter-story?
Marginalized: to be put or kept in a powerless or unimportant position within a society or group. EX: ethnic minorities, the poor, the disabled, and so many others--all living on the margins of mainstream society
Explores the voices of "marginalized" groups in society
What single stories about undocumented immigrants exist?
Majoritarian Stories
"A majoritarian story is one that privileges Whites, men, the middle and/or upper class, and heterosexuals by naming these social locations as natural or normative points of reference" (Solorzano & Yosso 28).
Sometimes created in response to majoritarian stories created by the dominant group.
Where and how have these majoritarian stories been perpetuated?