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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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