A Prison Classroom, African American Literature, and the Pedagogy of Freedom by Patrick Elliot Alexander

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric Sep 2019 RSS

A Prison Classroom, African American Literature, and the Pedagogy of Freedom by Patrick Elliot Alexander

Abstract

This article examines Alexander’s experiences teaching literacy and African American Literature to prison inmates at the Orange County Correctional facility in Hillsborough, North Carolina. For Alexander the conversations and insights provided by these inmates about their experiences and the experiences of the writers they read were indeed emancipatory. As Alexander explains, the process of reading… Continue reading A Prison Classroom, African American Literature, and the Pedagogy of Freedom by Patrick Elliot Alexander

Journal: Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published: 2019-09-29
Topics: multilingual writers

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