The Importance of Equity in Writing Instruction: Decolonizing the Community College Composition Classroom

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.

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. Catherine’s 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.