AntiRacist Writing Composition @AntiRacistComp

Questions academics can ask to decolonise their classrooms folukeafrica.com/questions-acad…

@ellaschild I think there are legitimate pedagogical reasons, but I also believe there are just as legitimate reasons to interrogate the notion of professorial authority. Thanks for the response! 😬

This means professors need to relinquish the #authority of being an #expert & instead allow students to be experts of their own rhetoric & writing. #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

AntiRacist Writing Composition @AntiRacistComp

8 years ago

Counter-stories, counter-histories, present counter knowledges; educators need take account for these histories & welcome these knowledges in the classroom. #decolonizingcomposition #INTSCRT18 #antiracistcomposition

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And the destination should be #justice. #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

Re: instructors who “diversify” their reading lists but do not confront racism in their classroom #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

This is what happens when academics and educators come together to #dothehardwork #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

White Privilege Conference self and social transfo @got_privilege

8 years ago

Pictures from the White Privilege Symposium held in Denver Colorado from Nov 2-3, 2018. #WPSDenverMetro #WPSDenver2018 1/4 @eddieknowsmoore @got_privilege

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“[The master’s tools] may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.” This is an essential lesson for rhetoricians and writing instructors to learn and apply in the classroom. #antiracistcomposition #INSTCRT18

AntiRacist Writing Composition @AntiRacistComp

8 years ago

English language, while a tool of knowledge, has been a site of domination & colonization. If you’re an educator committed to dismantling systems of oppression, you cannot equip your students only with the “master’s” tools. #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

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The comments shared at the 1979 conference were published in the first, 1981 edition of “This Bridge Called My Back,” a compilation edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzalduá.

For context, this quote was perhaps the most epic #feminist call-out in the movement. TLDR: Lorde to white feminist academics: “get your sh*t together!”

English language, while a tool of knowledge, has been a site of domination & colonization. If you’re an educator committed to dismantling systems of oppression, you cannot equip your students only with the “master’s” tools. #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

George Mason students protesting a hateful preacher. To assume our students don’t have rhetorical knowledge is silly; activism is rhetorical, symbolic action. #INTSCRT18 #antiracistcomposition

AntiRacist Writing Composition @AntiRacistComp

8 years ago

English language, while a tool of knowledge, has been a site of domination & colonization. If you’re an educator committed to dismantling systems of oppression, you cannot equip your students only with the “master’s” tools. #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

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bell hooks writes that English is often a site that limits & restricts; yet she later writes that it may also be a site of resistance. How do you allow your classroom to be a site of linguistic & rhetorical resistance? #INTSCRT18 #antiracistcomposition

Counter-stories, counter-histories, present counter knowledges; educators need take account for these histories & welcome these knowledges in the classroom. #decolonizingcomposition #INTSCRT18 #antiracistcomposition

A listserv for Writing Program Administrators sees a mini #feministrevoltion after one feminist scholar & rhetor “talked back” to some mansplainers. The field needs individuals committed to ending racism, sexism, & other oppressions. #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

AntiRacist Writing Composition @AntiRacistComp

8 years ago

English language, while a tool of knowledge, has been a site of domination & colonization. If you’re an educator committed to dismantling systems of oppression, you cannot equip your students only with the “master’s” tools. #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

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How do you encourage students to move beyond the personal and into the systemic, political realm? This is not without risk, especially for people of color in our classrooms. How do you mitigate this risk in your assignments?

AntiRacist Writing Composition @AntiRacistComp

8 years ago

While stories & narrative may expose individual experiences with racism, to be transformative narratives should expand beyond the individual to encompass the systemic & political. #personalispolitical #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

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While stories & narrative may expose individual experiences with racism, to be transformative narratives should expand beyond the individual to encompass the systemic & political. #personalispolitical #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

@DrBaseball “like Foucault.” One way to counter-story tell as an educator is to disrupt andro/eurocentric reading lists & syllabi. What are your students reading & what STORY do your choices tell about POWER in your classroom? #fanonnotfoucault #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

Cite Black Women. @citeblackwomen

8 years ago

A thought: What would it look like and feel like if we refused to cite those people we know have appropriated black women’s ideas without citing them? #CiteBlackWomen #RadicalCitationPolitics

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Students possess rhetorical knowledge developed when hearing & responding to arguments against them. What stories are told about your students & their identities? What stories do they want to tell in response? Make your class an opportunity for them to #talkback #INTSCRT18

Daniel Solórzano & Tara Yosso write about Counter-Storytelling as a framework for education research. In #writing & #composition research, the importance of storytelling (& listening) as rhetorical development should NOT be underestimated. #INTSCRT18 #antiracistcomposition

AntiRacist Writing Composition @AntiRacistComp

8 years ago

In the traditional rhetorical space of the classroom, storytelling is often limited to majority male, Eurocentric narratives. This week we will discuss alternative rhetorical development through #counterstorytelling in the writing classroom. #antiracistcomposition #INTSCRT18

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