Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication

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by Frankie Condon (editor), Vershawn Ashanti Young (Editor), Chiara Bacigalupa

In Performing Antiracist Pedagogy, Frankie Condon and Vershawn Ashanti Young seek to help create openings to address race and racism not only in course readings and class discussion in writing, rhetoric, and communication courses but also in wider public settings. The contributors to this collection, drawn from a wide range of disciplines, urge readers to renew their commitment to intelligently and publicly deliberate race and to counteract the effects of racism. The book is both theoretically rigorous and practical, providing readers with insightful analyses of race and racism and useful classroom suggestions and examples.

Contributors: Chiara Bacigalupa, Sophia Bell, Susan Leigh Brooks, Frankie Condon, Rasha Diab, John Dean, Thomas Ferrell, Beth Godbee, Dae-Joong Kim, Timothy Lensmire, Calvin M. Logue, Aja Y. Martinez, Rebecca Nathan, Bobbi Olson, Jessica Parker, Charise Pimentel, Octavio Pimentel, Mya Poe, Neil Simpkins, Nathan Snaza, Deatra Sullivan, Vershawn Ashanti Young

Genres: Social Justice, Nonfiction

257 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2017

Reviews

[Peaches · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm a little embarrassed that I'm just now reading this book, but I found it very useful in critically examining my pedagogy and thinking about where I want to go with curriculum design. I do think some more classroom examples would be welcomed, but I appreciated how accessible the theory was.

[Anicca Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really great edited collection that lays out frameworks as well as individual and institutional cases and an area on classroom work.

[Roger Green · Rating 4 out of 5]

The is an extremely useful book for both teachers and students of composition. It speaks to what I have generally felt as a gap in the field over the past 15 years that I have been teaching. I learned a lot from the essays, but Condon and Young's introductory remarks are essential in the book's framing.