Writing Centers and the New Racism: A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change

Laura Greenfield & Karen Rowan (editors)

ISBN 10: 0874218616 / ISBN 13: 9780874218619

Published by Utah State University Press, 2011

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Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2011. First edition, first printing. Softcover (trade paperback original). Fine in wraps. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 300 pages. A collection of essays addressing how writing centers can recognize and resist systemic racism, while promoting equitable pedagogies and sustainable dialogue. Edited by Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan, both scholars of rhetoric and composition, the volume includes contributions from writing center directors and researchers across the United States. The volume includes essays such as The Rhetorics of Racism: A Historical Sketch ; The Standard English Fairy Tale: A Rhetorical Analysis of Racist Pedagogies and Commonplace Assumptions about Language Diversity ; Should Writers Use They Own English? ; Retheorizing Writing Center Work to Transform a System of Advantage Based on Race ; Bold: The Everyday Writing Center and the Production of New Knowledge in Antiracist Theory and Practice ; Beyond the Week Twelve Approach : Toward a Critical Pedagogy for Antiracist Tutor Education ; Organizing for Antiracism in Writing Centers: Principles for Enacting Social Change ; Bias in the Writing Center: Tutor Perceptions of African American Language ; Diversity as Topography: The Benefits and Challenges of Cross-Racial Interaction in the Writing Center ; Racial Literacy and the Writing Center ; Breaking the Silence on Racism through Agency within a Conflicted Field ; The Quality of Light: Using Narrative in a Peer Tutoring Class ; Caught in a Firestorm: A Harsh Lesson Learned Teaching AAVE ; and On the Edges: Black Maleness, Degrees of Racism, and Community on the Boundaries of the Writing Center. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing Centers and the New Racism: A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874218616
• ISBN 13: 9780874218619
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan have created a rich resource for writing center tutors, administrators, and scholars. Motivated by a scholarly interest in race, literacy, and pedagogy, and by an ethical commitment to antiracism 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 and lore, and in what ways are writing centers unwittingly complicit in racist practices? How can they meaningfully operationalize antiracist 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 Writing Centers and the New Racism is meant to model what it means to be bold in engagement with these hard questions and to spur the kind of sustained, productive, multivocal, and challenging dialogue that, with a few important exceptions, has been absent from the field.

About the Author

Laura Greenfield is the founding director of the Transformative Speaking Program and a faculty associate of communication and education in the School of Critical Social Inquiry at Hampshire College. Her research and teaching interests include the intersections of language, power, and education, with a particular focus on race and gender. Her first book, Writing Centers and the New Racism: A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change, with Dr. Karen Rowan, was the winner of the 2012 International Writing Centers Association’s Outstanding Book Award. Previously she served as the founding director of the nonprofit Women’s Voices Worldwide, Inc. and as associate director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts at Mount Holyoke College, where she brought its Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program into international prominence.

Karen Rowan is professor of English and associate graduate coordinator at California State University, San Bernardino. Her teaching and research attend to the intersections of writing and literacy, pedagogy, antiracism, and language. She is coeditor of Writing Centers and the New Racism, winner of the 2012 IWCA Outstanding Book Award.