Writing centers and the new racism
Writing centers and the new racism a call for sustainable dialogue and change / [electronic resource] :
[edited by] Laura Greenfield, Karen Rowan.
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes index.
"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.
9780874218626
EDUCATION / Higher
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
Critical pedagogy--United States.
Discrimination in higher education--United States.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Writing centers--United States.
Electronic books.
PE1405.U6 / W74 2011
808/.042071173
Includes index.
"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.
9780874218626
EDUCATION / Higher
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
Critical pedagogy--United States.
Discrimination in higher education--United States.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Writing centers--United States.
Electronic books.
PE1405.U6 / W74 2011
808/.042071173