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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457472903321

Titolo

Writing centers and the new racism [[electronic resource] ] : a call for sustainable dialogue and change / / [edited by] Laura Greenfield, Karen Rowan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-28354-9

9786613283542

0-87421-862-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GreenfieldLaura

RowanKaren

Disciplina

808/.042071173

Soggetti

Writing centers - United States

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Discrimination in higher education - United States

Critical pedagogy - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Call to Action; Part 1: Foundational Theories on Racism, Rhetoric, Language, and Pedagogy; Part 2: Toward an Antiracist Praxis for Writing Centers; Part 3: Research, Critical Case Studies and the Messiness of Practice; Part 4: Stories of Lived Experience; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

"Motivated by a scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies, and by an ethical commitment to anti-racism work, contributors address a series of questions related to institutionalized racism in American higher education, especially in college and university writing centers"-- Provided by publisher.

"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 ethical   commitment to anti-racism work, contributors address a series of related   questions: How does institutionalized racism in American education shape the   culture of literacy and language education in the writing center? How does   racism operate in the discourses of writing center scholarship/lore, and how   may writing centers be unwittingly complicit in racist practices? How can they meaningfully operationalize anti-racist work? How do they persevere through the difficulty and messiness of negotiating race and racism in their daily practice? The conscientious, nuanced attention to race in this volume   is meant to model what it means to be bold in engagement with these hard   questions and to spur the kind of sustained, productive, multi-vocal, and   challenging dialogue that, with a few significant exceptions, has been absent   from the field."-- Provided by publisher.