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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779602503321

Autore

Kynard Carmen <1971->

Titolo

Vernacular insurrections [[electronic resource] ] : race, black protest, and the new century in composition-literacies studies / / Carmen Kynard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, [2013]

ISBN

1-4384-4637-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

371.82996073

Soggetti

African Americans - Education

African Americans - Social conditions

Multicultural education - United States

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - United States

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Teaching interlude I : method mmen and women -- "Before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave" : black student protest as discursive challenge and social turn in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Teaching interlude II: through their window -- "I want to be African" : tracing the black radical tradition with students' rights to their own language -- Teaching interlude III : undoing the singularity of "ethical English" and language-as-racial-inferiority -- "Ain't we got a right to the tree of life?" : the black arts movement and black studies as an untold story of and in composition studies -- Teaching interlude IV : "not like the first time, talkin bout the second time" -- "The revolution will not be [error analyzed]" : the black protest tradition of teaching and the integrationist moment -- Teaching interlude V : "your mother is weak" -- What a difference an error makes : ongoing challenges for "white innocence," historiography, and disciplinary knowledge-making -- Outerlude : leaving the Emerald City.