Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Jan 2019 Open Access

Community-Based Writing with Latinx Rhetorics in Milwaukee

Rachel Bloom-Pojar ; Julia Anderson ; Storm Pilloff

Abstract

With increased interest in community-engaged course design, instructors across the United States are looking for ways to encourage their students to become more connected with their local contexts and the larger communities surrounding their university’s walls. Moving beyond a “feel good” approach to making college courses more meaningful, I think it is crucial that educators recognize the need for explicitly anti-oppressive and anti-racist approaches to education in our world today. As anti-immigrant sentiments and white nationalist hate crimes surge in the United States alongside an explicit anti-Mexican rhetoric guiding policies with the current administration, there is a kairotic urgency to de-center whiteness in our curricula, to support community-based organizing in Latinx and other marginalized communities, and to recognize oppression within our own practices and institutions.

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2019-01-01
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10.59236/rjv18i2pp36-65
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