Teaching English in the Two-Year College May 2016

Feature: The Risky Business of Engaging Racial Equity in Writing Instruction: A Tragedy in Five Acts

Taiyon J. Coleman ; Renee DeLong University of Minnesota ; Kathleen Sheerin DeVore University of Minnesota ; Shannon Gibney Novelis (Canada) ; Michael C. Kuhne Minneapolis College

Abstract

This article and its five authors investigate how writing programs, writing instructors, and the profession itself engage in the erasure of race—of blackness and brownness specifically—and perhaps most importantly in a hesitancy to address white privilege.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2016-05-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc201628554
Open Access
Closed
Topics
writing pedagogy writing program administration race and writing

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