Writing centers and the new racism
Subtitle: a call for sustainable dialogue and change
By: edited by Laura Greenfield, Karen Rowan
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Logan, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780874218619; 9780874218626
Subjects: Rhetoric; Discrimination in higher education; Study and teaching (Higher); EDUCATION / Higher; Critical pedagogy; English language; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; Writing centers
Description: "Noting a   lack of sustained and productive dialogue about race in university writing   center scholarship, the editors of this volume have created a rich resource   for writing center tutors, administrators, and scholars. Motivated by a   scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies, and by an ethical   commitment to anti-racism 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/lore, and how   may writing centers be unwittingly complicit in racist practices? How can they meaningfully operationalize anti-racist 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 this volume   is meant to model what it means to be bold in engagement with these hard   questions and to spur the kind of sustained, productive, multi-vocal, and   challenging dialogue that, with a few significant exceptions, has been absent   from the field."-- Provided by publisher.

"Motivated by a scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies, and by an ethical commitment to anti-racism work, contributors address a series of questions related to institutionalized racism in American higher education, especially in college and university writing centers"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.