Vernacular insurrections race, black protest, and the new century in composition-literacies studies /

Kynard, Carmen, 1971-

Vernacular insurrections race, black protest, and the new century in composition-literacies studies / Carmen Kynard. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xi, 322 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Teaching interlude I : method men and women -- "Before I'll be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave" : black student protest as discursive challenge and social turn in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literacies -- Teaching interlude II: through their window -- "I want to be African" : tracing the black radical tradition with "students' rights to their own language" -- Teaching interlude III : undoing the singularity of "ethical English" and language-as-racial-inferiority -- "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 -- Teaching interlude IV : "not like the first time, talkin bout the second time" -- "The revolution will not be [error analyzed]" : the black protest tradition of teaching and the integrationist moment -- Teaching interlude V : "your mother is weak" -- What a difference an error makes : ongoing challenges for "white innocence," historiography, and disciplinary knowledge-making -- Outerlude : leaving the Emerald City.



9781438446370


African Americans--Education.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Multicultural education--United States.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching--United States.
English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching--United States.


Electronic Books.

LC2717 / .V476 2013