Introduction : the critical power and potential of multicultural young adult literature / Ricki Ginsberg and Wendy J. Glenn -- Positioning theory : exploring power, social location, and moral choices of the American dream in American street / Jennifer Buehler -- The social mind : using drama to walk through racism in out of darkness / Patricia Enciso, Nithya Sivashankar, and Sarah Fletcher -- Neoliberalism : a framework for critiquing representations of the "superspecial" individual in Marcelo in The real world / Sean P. Connors and Roberta Seelinger Trites -- The dominant/oppositional gaze : the power of looking in Yaqui Delgado wants to kick your ass / Emily Wender -- Multiethnic/multicultural/multiracial alloys reading the "mixed" experience in Little and Lion / Cammie Kim Lin -- Borders and borderlands : interrogating real and imagined third spaces using if I ever get out of here / Ricki Ginsberg -- Understanding racial melancholia : analyzing race-related losses and opportunities for mourning through American born Chinese / Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides -- Interrogating happiness : unraveling homophobia in the lives of queer youth of color with more happy than not / Alyssa Chrisman and Mollie V. Blackburn -- Queer reading practices and ideologies : questioning and (not) knowing with Brooklyn, burning / Ryan Schey -- Complicating the coming out story : unpacking queer and (anti)normative thinking in Simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda / Angel Daniel Matos -- Theories of space, place, and navigational identity : turning inside out and back again in the exploration of immigration / Wendy J. Glenn -- Teaching #blacklivesmatter and #sayhername : interrogating historical violence against black women in Copper sun / Chonika Coleman-King and Susan L. Groenke -- Critical race English education : engaging with hip hop, resistance, and remix in all American boys and viral youtube videos / Rachel L. Rickard Rebellino, Karly Marie Grice, and Caitlin E. Murphy -- Critical language awareness : unpacking linguistic and racial ideologies in the hate u give / Christina Marie Ashwin and Sara Studebaker -- Critical comparative content analysis : examining violence, politics, and culture in two versions of I am Malala / Amanda Haertling Thein, Mark A. Sulzer, and Renita R. Schmidt -- Deconstructing the superhero : interrogating the racialization of bodies using all-new, all-different Avengers Vol. I / Francisco L. Torres -- Arts-based approaches to social justice in literature : exploring the intersections of magical realism and identities in When the moon was ours / Christine N. Stamper and Mary Catherine Miller -- Afrofuturist reading : exploring non-western depictions of magical worlds in Akata witch / Rebecca G. Kaplan and Antero Garcia -- Conclusion : recognizing and speaking to the challenges that come with courageous teaching / Wendy J. Glenn and Ricki Ginsberg