Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Apr 2011 Open Access

Rewriting a Master Narrative: HBCUs and Community Literacy Partnerships

Reva E. Sias ; Beverly J. Moss

Abstract

For several decades now, the scholarship of rhetoric and composition studies has shown an increased interest in community literacy and community-based pedagogy. Many point to the emergence of the Ethnography of Literacy (see studies by Heath, Barton, Cushman) and New Literacy Studies (Gee, Street, among others) as an origin for this initial focus on community literacy practices. These areas of scholarship turn our gazes to community literacy practices as rich sites of inquiry that emphasize the social nature of literacy and writing. Linda Flower explains that this turn is, due in part, because “rhetoric and composition studies has long held itself accountable to the public and social significance of writing,” while recognizing its “potentially contradictory goal of developing personally empowered writers” (Community Literacy 76).

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Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
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2011-04-01
DOI
10.59236/rjv10i2pp1-15
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rhetorical criticism writing pedagogy qualitative research literacy studies community literacy
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