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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970273803321

Autore

Kynard Carmen <1971->

Titolo

Vernacular insurrections : 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

9781438446370

1438446373

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2015 James M. Britton Award presented by Conference on English Education a constituent organization within the National



Council of Teachers of EnglishCarmen Kynard locates literacy in the twenty-first century at the onset of new thematic and disciplinary imperatives brought into effect by Black Freedom Movements. Kynard argues that we must begin to see how a series of vernacular insurrections—protests and new ideologies developed in relation to the work of Black Freedom Movements—have shaped our imaginations, practices, and research of how literacy works in our lives and schools.Utilizing many styles and registers, the book borrows from educational history, critical race theory, first-year writing studies, Africana studies, African American cultural theory, cultural materialism, narrative inquiry, and basic writing scholarship. Connections between social justice, language rights, and new literacies are uncovered from the vantage point of a multiracial, multiethnic Civil Rights Movement.