Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication

by Frankie Condon (Editor), Vershawn Ashanti Young (Editor)

Overview

In Performing Antiracist Pedagogy, Frankie Condon and Vershawn Ashanti Young seek to help create openings to address race and racism not only in course readings and class discussion in writing, rhetoric, and communication courses but also in wider public settings. The contributors to this collection, drawn from a wide range of disciplines, urge readers to renew their commitment to intelligently and publicly deliberate race and to counteract the effects of racism. The book is both theoretically rigorous and practical, providing readers with insightful analyses of race and racism and useful classroom suggestions and examples.

Contributors: Chiara Bacigalupa, Sophia Bell, Susan Leigh Brooks, Frankie Condon, Rasha Diab, John Dean, Thomas Ferrell, Beth Godbee, Dae-Joong Kim, Timothy Lensmire, Calvin M. Logue, Aja Y. Martinez, Rebecca Nathan, Bobbi Olson, Jessica Parker, Charise Pimentel, Octavio Pimentel, Mya Poe, Neil Simpkins, Nathan Snaza, Deatra Sullivan, Vershawn Ashanti Young

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607326496
Publisher:	The WAC Clearinghouse
Publication date:	03/01/2017
Edition description:	1
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Frankie Condon completed her BFA at York University in Theatre (Performing Arts, Honours), her MA at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and her PhD at the University at Albany (State University of New York). Prior to her arrival at the University of Waterloo, she taught at Siena College in Loudonville New York, St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Vershawn Ashanti Young is a member of the faculty of arts at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has also served on the faculties of the University of Iowa and the University of Kentucky. He teaches communication, English, and performance studies. He serves as a consultant to schools and organizations in the areas of cultural competency and diversity. He values collaboration and has authored or co-authored several books, including Other People's English: Code Meshing, Code Switching, and African American Literacy (Teachers College Press 2014). His articles have appeared in African American Review, American Literary History, PMLA, College Communication and Composition, Journal of Advanced Composition, and Souls. For the past decade, he has been developing the concept of code-meshing, using multiple Englishes and dialects in formal written and oral communication in school and at work. For more on code-meshing and Vershawn, see http://dr-vay2014.wix.com/vershawn-young.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Foreword: On Antiracist Agendas Asao B. Inoue | University of Washington Tacoma xi

Introduction Frankie Condon Vershawn Ashanti Young 3

Section 1 Actionable Commitments

Making Commitments to Racial Justice Actionable Rasha Diab Thomas Ferrel Beth Godbee Neil Simpkins 19

Teaching African American Discourse: Lessons of a Recovering Segregationist Calvin M. Logue¹ 41

A Plea for Critical Race Theory Counterstory: Stock Story vs. Counterstory Dialogues Concerning Alexandra's "Fit" in the Academy Aja Y. Martinez 65

Refraining Race in Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum Mya Poe 87

Section 2 Identity Matters

The Myth of the Colorblind Writing Classroom: White Instructors Confront White Privilege in Their Classrooms Octavio Pimentel Charise Pimentel John Dean 109

Deconstructing Whiteliness in the Globalized Classroom Dae-Joong Kim Bobbi Olson 123

Why Am I So Damaged? Deatra Sullivan-Morgan 159

Section 3 In the Classroom

"Whiteboys": Contact Zone, Pedagogy, Internalized Racism, and Composition at the University's Gateway Sophie Bell 163

Writing and Unwriting Race: Using Hip-Hop in Writing and Literature Classrooms Jessica Parker 195

Dangerous Play: Race and Bakhtin in a Graduate Classroom Timothy Lensmire Nathan Snaza Rebecca Nathan Susan Leigh Brooks Chiara Bacigalupa 211

Epilogue Frankie Condon Vershawn Ashanti Young 227

Contributors 233