College Composition and Communication Jun 2024

Black Linguistic Justice from Theory to Practice

Hannah Franz ; Michelle Petty Grue ; Angela Rowell ; Marie Tano ; Sierra J. Johnson ; Anne Charity Hudley

Abstract

While writing studies and linguistic scholarship has interrogated race and college writing instruction over the last fifty years, we contend that explicit, actionable, and supportive guidance on giving feedback to Black students’ writing is still needed. Building on the legacy of work visible in the Students’ Right to Their Own Language original (Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1974) and updated (2006) annotated bibliography, as well as the crucial work done since then, our interdisciplinary team of linguists and writing studies scholars and students constructed the Students’ Right to Their Own Writing website. We describe the research-based design of the website and share evaluations of the website from focus group sessions. Acknowledging the contingent and overburdened nature of the labor force in most writing programs, the focus group participants particularly appreciated the infographics, how-tos and how-not-tos, and samples of feedback. The result is a demonstration of how to actually take up the call to enact Black Linguistic Justice (Baker-Bell et al., “This Ain’t Another Statement”).

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2024-06-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc2024754647
Open Access
Closed
Topics
writing pedagogy writing program administration multimodality race and writing multilingual writers

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