This book presents the authors attempts to interrogate the ways that white institutional, pedagogical, and curricular heteronormativity affects equity in writing instruction at Two Year Colleges. Written from a wide range of subject and identity positions, this volume explores issues that arise among students inside historically white-dominant classrooms, among faculty as curriculum and hiring decisions are made, and among colleagues when they attempt to engage the wider institution in equity work. Aiming to significantly change how urban Community College writing instruction is delivered in this country, the book operates on the principle that equity is essential to successful writing pedagogy, curricular development, and student success.
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1 The Risky Business of Engaging Racial Equity in Writing Instruction: A Tragedy in Five Acts |
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2 Literacy and the Project of Killing the Black Body: The Dangers of Being Black While Writing and Teaching Writing in the College Composition Classroom |
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3 How I Woke Up in a Dream and Walked Toward the Door |
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4 Refusal as a Survival Tactic for Faculty of Color |
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5 Disruptive Healing and Engaging Exile: Stolen Strategies |
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6 Nobody's Mama: Interrogating White Mothering Impulses in the Classroom |
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7 My Pedagogy Is Courage: Women of Color, Institutional Violence, and Education as the Practice of Freedom |
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| Conclusion: Joyfully Tearing It Down: A Conversation at the May Day Coffee Shop |
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Renee DeLong is a professor of English and LGBTQ literature at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA.
Taiyon J. Coleman is an assistant professor of English Literature and Multicultural Literature at St. Catherines University, Minnesota, USA.
Kathleen Sheerin DeVore is a professor of English at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA.
Shannon Gibney is a professor of English and African diaspora studies at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA.
Michael C. Kuhne is a professor of English at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA.
Valerie Déus is a professor of English at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA.
