TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction — 1
By Elizabeth Marshall & Özlem Sensoy

Part 1: Study the Relationship Among Corporations, Youth, and Schooling

Moving Beyond Media Literacy — 14
By Rethinking Schools Editors

Why I Said No to Coca-Cola — 17
By John Sheehan

Coping with TV: Some Lesson Ideas — 20
By Bob Peterson

Seventeen, Self-Image, and Stereotypes — 24
By Bakari Chavanu

Rethinking MySpace — 31
By Antero Garcia

Six, Going on Sixteen — 36
By Geralyn Bywater Mclaughlin

Bonfire of the Disney Princesses — 46
By Barbara Ehrenreich

Sweatshop Accounting — 49
By Larry Steele

My Year with Nike — 61
By Rachel Cloues

Part 2: Critique How Popular Culture and Media Frame Historical Events and Actors

The Politics of Children’s Literature: What’s Wrong with the Rosa Parks Myth — 68
By Herbert Kohl

Once upon a Genocide: Columbus in Children’s Literature — 77
By Bill Bigelow

The Truth About Helen Keller — 91
By Ruth Shagoury

Why I’m Not Thankful for Thanksgiving — 100
By Michael Dorris

Mulan’s Mixed Messages — 106
By Chyng Feng Sun

A Barbie-Doll Pocahontas — 110
By Cornel Pewewardy

Fiction Posing As Truth — 112
By Debbie Reese et al.

‘Save The Muslim Girl!’ — 120
By Özlem Sensoy and Elizabeth Marshall

Marketing American Girlhood — 129
By Elizabeth Marshall

Part 3: Examine Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Histories in Popular Culture and Media

Girls, Worms, and Body Image — 138
By Kate Lyman

Math and Media: Bias Busters — 147
By Bob Peterson

Human Beings Are Not Mascots — 149
By Barbara Munson

Race: Some Teachable–and Uncomfortable–Moments — 153
By Heidi Tolentino

Seventh Graders and Sexism — 163
By Lisa Espinosa

Rethinking Agatha Christie — 172
By Sudie Hofmann

School Days: Hail, Hail, Rock ‘N’ Roll — 178
By Rick Mitchell

Deconstructing Barbie: Math and Popular Culture — 187
By Swapna Mukhopadhyay

Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us: Critiquing Fairy Tales and Cartoons — 189
By Linda Christensen

Looking Pretty, Waiting for the Prince — 201
By Lila Johnson

Looking for the Girls — 203
By Andrea Brown-Thirston

Miles of Aisles of Sexism — 207
By Sudie Hofmann

Part 4: View and Analyze Representations of Teachers, Youth, and Schools

TV Bullies: How Glee and Anti-Bullying Programs Miss the Mark — 216
By Gerald Walton

Kid Nation — 223
By Ellen Goodman

Freedom Writers: White Teacher to the Rescue — 226
By Chela Delgado

City Teaching, Beyond the Stereotypes — 230
By Gregory Michie

Sticking It to the Man — 234
By Wayne Au

More Than Just Dance Lessons — 238
By Terry Burant

Part 5: Take Action for a Just Society

Taking the Offensive Against Offensive Toys — 244
By Leonore Gordon

Beyond Pink and Blue — 247
By Robin Cooley

Taking Action Against Disney — 253
By Steven Friedman

Why We Banned Legos — 258
By Ann Pelo and Kendra Pelojoaquin

‘Lego Fascists’ (That’s Us) vs. Fox News — 271
By Rethinking Schools Editors

Tuning In to Violence: Students Use Math to Analyze What TV Is Teaching Them — 275
By Margot Pepper

Examining Media Violence — 282
By Bakari Chavanu

Part 6: Use Popular Culture and Media to Transgress

‘And Ya Don’t Stop’: Using Hip Hop in the Language Arts Classroom — 288
By Wayne Au

Stenciling Dissent: Political Graffiti Engages Students in the History of Social Justice — 298
By Andrew Reed

The Murder of Sean Bell — 304
By Renée Watson

Knock, Knock: Turning Pain into Power — 312
By Linda Christensen

Haiku and Hiroshima — 318
By Wayne Au

Resources — 323
Index — 323