Writing centers and the new racism : a call for sustainable dialogue and change /
"Noting a lack of sustained and productive dialogue about race in university writing center scholarship, the editors of this volume have created a rich resource for writing center tutors, administrators, and scholars. Motivated by a scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies, and by an et...
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| Language: | English |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Call to Action; Part 1: Foundational Theories on Racism, Rhetoric, Language, and Pedagogy; 1. The Rhetorics of Racism: A Historical Sketch; 2. The "Standard English" Fairy Tale: A Rhetorical Analysis of Racist Pedagogies and Commonplace Assumptions about Language Diversity; 3. Should Writers Use They Own English?; Part 2: Toward an Antiracist Praxis for Writing Centers; 4. Retheorizing Writing Center Work to Transform a System of Advantage Based on Race.
- 5. Bold: The Everyday Writing Center and the Production of New Knowledge in Antiracist Theory and Practice6. Beyond the "Week Twelve Approach": Toward a Critical Pedagogy for Antiracist Tutor Education; 7. Organizing for Antiracism in Writing Centers: Principles for Enacting Social Change; Part 3: Research, Critical Case Studies and the Messiness of Practice; 8. Bias in the Writing Center: Tutor Perceptions of African American Language; 9. Diversity as Topography: The Benefits and Challenges of Cross Racial Interaction in the Writing Center; 10. Racial Literacy and the Writing Center.
- 11. Breaking the Silence on Racism through Agency within a Conflicted FieldPart 4: Stories of Lived Experience; 12. "The Quality of Light": Using Narrative in a Peer Tutoring Class; 13. Caught in a Firestorm: A Harsh Lesson Learned Teaching AAVE; 14. On the Edges: Black Maleness, Degrees of Racism, and Community on the Boundaries of the Writing Center; Index; About the Authors.
