Anti-Racist Pedagogy

Getting in Conversation about Activism: Group Podcast Assignment

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Assignments, collaboration and group work, Community-engaged writing, critical thought and analysis, genre and discourse community, narrative and storytelling, Place-based Writing, Public Writing, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Jeanette Lehn Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In my class on public rhetorics, I strive to empower students to possess agency in speaking to an unbounded global public with the understanding that all rhetors are constrained and imbricated in complex systems. Cooper writes, “Rhetors—and audiences—are agents in their actions, and they are responsible for […]

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What Can I Add to the Disourse Community? How Writers Use Code Meshing and Translanguaging to Negotiate Discourse

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, genre and discourse community, Volume 5 /

Lisa Tremain Volume 5 Chapter Description This essay explores how discourse communities change over time and through participation, and it shows how we can negotiate the expectations for discourse through translanguaging and code-meshing. As discourse community members learn and practice the language rules of a community, they also act as agents to develop, change, or

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What Color Is My Voice? Academic Writing and the Myth of Standard English

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, narrative and storytelling, Racial Literacy, Volume 5 /

Kristin DeMint Bailey, An Ha, & Anthony J. Outlar Volume 5 Chapter Description In this chapter, a community college writing professor and two of her first-year writing students collaboratively address the issue of Whiteness in academic writing. Specifically, we challenge the notion that academic language is neutral as well as the expectation that all academic

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Exploring Ideology in Written Language: A Translingual Approach

Activities, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, Racial Literacy, translingualism, writing in global contexts /

Alex Way Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description There are power dynamics at play in spoken and written language. Language is wielded by people and institutions to exert power over others or to maintain the power they already possess. But power dynamics in language are not always obvious. For instance, one manifestation of power dynamics

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Literacy Autobiography

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Assignments, critical thought and analysis, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, narrative and storytelling, Racial Literacy, translingualism /

Anita Chaudhuri & Subrata Bhowmik Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description Writing a personal narrative assignment is commonplace in first year composition classrooms and the proposed assignment presents it as a literacy autobiography (LA) which can, according to Canagarajah, focus on individual learning journeys and underline “in-between identities and discourses” (p. 13). The transnational identities

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Non-standardized Grammar Assignment

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Assignments, critical thought and analysis, grammar and mechanics, linguistic difference, linguistic diversity, narrative and storytelling, prewriting and invention, Racial Literacy /

Cheyenne Franklin Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description “… dont nobody’s language, dialect, or style make them ‘vulnerable to prejudice.’ It’s ATTITUDES” (Young 110). Vershawn Ashanti Young, along with Asao Inoue, Geneva Smitherman, and more recently April Baker-Bell, have long fought against oppressive language standards in education. It is not enough, they have jointly argued,

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Writing toward Racial Literacy

Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Racial Literacy /

Mara Lee Grayson Volume 4 Chapter Description Curricula that engage students in reading and writing about race and racism are increasingly common in composition classrooms, but writing about race, even when guided by an instructor well-versed in critical race theory and critical pedagogy, isn’t easy. Racial literacy requires that students develop a discursive toolbox with

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