Vernacular insurrections
Subtitle: race, black protest, and the new century in composition-literacies studies
By: Carmen Kynard
Publisher: State University of New York Press; State Univ of New York Pr
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781438446356
Subjects: Rhetoric; Multicultural education; English language; Study and teaching; Social conditions; Composition and exercises; Education; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Teaching interlude I : method mmen and women; title: "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; title: Teaching interlude II: through their window; title: "I want to be African" : tracing the black radical tradition with students' rights to their own language; title: Teaching interlude III : undoing the singularity of "ethical English" and language-as-racial-inferiority; title: "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; title: Teaching interlude IV : "not like the first time, talkin bout the second time"; title: "The revolution will not be [error analyzed]" : the black protest tradition of teaching and the integrationist moment; title: Teaching interlude V : "your mother is weak"; title: What a difference an error makes : ongoing challenges for "white innocence," historiography, and disciplinary knowledge-making; title: Outerlude : leaving the Emerald City.