...Mara Lee Grayson Abstract This article examines the role of critical reading in a racial literacy-focused composition curriculum. The author draws on student-produced data to demonstrate how the racial literacy curriculum prepares students to explore the situatedness of language, how individual...

.... Mara Lee Grayson is assistant professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she teaches courses in composition and rhetoric and directs the university writing center. She is author of Teaching Racial Literacy: Reflective Practices for Critical Writing (2018) and Race Talk...

..., and Ideology” Grayson addresses how a racial literacy curriculum can help instructors prepare students to explore the situatedness of language and navigate a textually mediated society. While we have not separated this special issue into sections according to the questions above, or any other heuristic, we...

...Alexis McGee Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy . By Young Vershawn Ashanti , Barrett Rusty , Young-Rivera Y'Shanda , and Lovejoy Kim Brian . New York : Teachers College Press , 2014 . 190 pages . © 2016 by Duke...

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... English in the Two-Year College 35 , no. 4 : 350 – 62 . Anderson Carol . 2017 . White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide . New York : Bloomsbury . Armstrong Elizabeth A. Hamilton Laura T. . 2013 . Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality...

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...Meaghan Elliott Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices since College . By Sohn Katherine Kelleher . Southern Illinois University Press , 2006 . 224 pages . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Reviews...

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... is particularly interested in the history of writing instruction worldwide, writing pedagogy and program administra- tion, historiography as rhetorical practice, and multilingual and transnational literacies. She has published articles in JAC, College English, and College Composition and Communication...

... University. She is currently completing her manuscript, Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Confl ict, and the Turn to the Aesthetic in Mid-Victorian English Prose. Her teaching interests include Victorian narrative, plague narratives, trauma, and the Gothic. Mark Gaipa is a preceptor in the Expository...

... University. She is currently completing her manuscript, Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Confl ict, and the Turn to the Aesthetic in Mid-Victorian English Prose. Her teaching interests include Victorian narrative, plague narratives, trauma, and the Gothic. Mark Gaipa is a preceptor in the Expository...

.... Pritchard s discussion of literacy as a practice of social justice and identity formation and affirmation (20) is key to understanding how reading pedagogy can foster racial, gender, and sexual literacies in our classrooms and institutions. How, we might ask, might a more robust, cultur- ally oriented...

...Kristopher M. Lotier; Xiomara Trinidad Perez; Aidan Pierre; Prameet V. Shah Abstract This article describes an antiracist first‐year writing curriculum, formulated in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. Classroom participants examined the racialized and class‐based nature of “Standard...

... (SRTOL). As part of the seminar, students read and reviewed current books that considered various language debates in literacy and writing studies. The book reviews shared here consider various ways that language use, globalization, and issues of access continue to fuel our work as instructors...

... of Second Language Writing 42 : 86 – 93 . Ayash Nancy Bou . 2016 . “ Conditions of (Im)Possibility: Postmonolingual Language Representations in Academic Literacies .” College English 78 , no. 6 : 555 – 77 . Bawarshi Anis . 2016 . “ Beyond the Genre Fixation: A Translingual...

... Morrison's short story, “Recitatif,” which ingeniously leads readers to examine their own racial preconceptions. Then, novels ( Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Sent for You Yesterday by John Wideman, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and Mona in the Promised Land by Gish Jen) are paired...

... to racial issues. Other recent protests have occurred at UC Berke- ley, UC Davis, and the University of Chicago, in response to appearances by conservative or alt- right speakers. While these events highlight our current moment of political strife, each embodies a unique set of local circumstances within...