College Composition and Communication Feb 2024

Composing to Enact Affective Agency: Engaging Multimodal Antiracist Pedagogy in the First-Year Writing Classroom

Jialei Jiang

Abstract

Positioning affective agency as a site of investigation, this study documents how first-year writing students create multimodal antiracist campaigns to critically address the sociopolitical issue of racial justice and to collectively challenge the hegemonic violence of racial profiling. In describing students’ affective engagements with the multimodal campaigns, this study demonstrates the potential of multimodal writing pedagogies in enacting affective agency, weaving antiracist assemblages, and transforming affective relations, all of which will provide starting points for social change and antiracist action.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2024-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc2024753534
Open Access
Closed
Topics
first-year composition multimodality race and writing affect and writing

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