Below are lists of works we consulted during our revision work on the Eng 12 Curriculum Guide 2.0, works we recommend for further reading, and our newest suggestions for readings to broaden your horizons. Please scroll around to see whether there’s an area of composition scholarship here that piques your interest this summer.
Works Consulted
Ashanti-Young, Vershawn. “It Ain’t What It is: Code Switching and the White American Celebrationists”
Ashanti-Young, Vershawn. “Should Writers Use They Own English?”
Dolmage, Jay. “Mapping Composition: Inviting Disability in the Front Door”
Grayson, Mara Lee. “Racial Literacy is Literacy: Locating Racial Literacy in the College Composition Classroom”
Horner, Lu, Royster, & Trimbur “Language difference in writing: toward a translingual approach”
Inoue, Asao. “Problematizing Grading and the White Habitus of the Writing Classroom”
Kynard, Camen. “Writing While Black: The Colour Line, Black discourses and assessment in the institutionalization of writing instruction”
Lee, Jerry Won. “Beyond Translingual Writing”
Martinez, Aja. “A Plea for Critical Race Theory Counterstory: Stock Story versus Counterstory Dialogues Concerning Alejandra’s “Fit” in the Academy”
Parmegiani, Andrea. “Bridging Literacy Practices Through Storytelling, Translanguaging, and an Ethnographic Partnership: A Case Study of Dominican Students at Bronx Community College”
Radical Teacher vol 115 focused on Anti-Oppressive Composition Pedagogies; multiple authors
Sealey Ruiz, Yolanda. “Building Racial Literacy in First-Year Composition”
Skerrett, Allison. “English teachers’ racial literacy knowledge and practice”
Villareal & Garcia. “Self-determination and Goal Aspirations: African American and Latino Males’ Perceptions of Their Persistence in Community College Basic and Transfer-Level Writing Courses”
Womack, Anne-Marie. “Teaching is Accommodation: Universally Designing Composition Classrooms and Syllabi”
Wood, Harrison, & Jones. “Black Males’ Perceptions of the Work-College Balance: The Impact of Employment on Academic Success in the Community College”
Recommended for Further Reading
Ashanti-Young, Vershawn Ashanti. Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity
Ashanti-Young, Vershawn Ashanti, Rusty Barrett, Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, and Kim Brian Lovejoy. Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy.
Baker-Bell, April. Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy
Davila, Bethany. “Standard English and Colorblindness in Composition Studies: Rhetorical Constructions of Racial and Linguistic Neutrality”
Elbow, Peter. Vernacular Eloquence: What Speech Can Bring to Writing.
Garcia, Romeo, and Damián Baca. Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise
Guerra, Juan. Language, Culture, Identity and Citizenship in College Classrooms and Communities
hooks, bell. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
Inoue, Asao B. Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing For A Socially Just Future
Inoue, Asao B., and Mya Poe. Race and Writing Assessment
Kynard, Carmen. Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies
Maraj, M. Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics
Martinez, Aja Y. Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory
Matsuda, Paul Kei. “The Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity in U.S. College Composition”
Perryman-Clark, Staci, and Collin Lamont Craig. Black Perspectives in Writing Program Administration: From the Margins to the Center
Perryman-Clark, Staci, David E. Kirkland, and Justin Jackson. Students’ Right to Their Own Language: A Critical Source Book
Ruiz, Iris D., and Raúl Sánchez. Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy
Smitherman, Geneva. Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America
Villanueva, Victor. “On the Rhetorics and Precedents of Racism”
The CRC’s latest reading recommendations
Various works by Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods
All parts of this issue of the Journal of Writing Assessment, special issue on placement reform in the TYC
Ibram Kendi How to be an Antiracist
Louis M. Maraj Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics
Bridging the Multimodal Gap: From Theory to Practice, eds. Santosh Khadka & J.C. Lee
Check out the TOC and general approach of Writing about Writing as an example of a writing-focused orientation to instruction
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Elizabeth Wardle. Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies
Adler-Kassner, Linda and Elizabeth Wardle. (Re)Considering What We Know: Learning Thresholds in Composition, Rhetoric and Literacy
Ball, Cheryl E. and Drew M. Loewe, Eds. Bad Ideas about Writing
Blum, Susan. Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead)
Bolling, Ben. “Transmedia Superheroes, Multimodal Composition, and Digital Literacy.” With Great Power, Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comics.
Pedagogue Episodes (podcast about FYC) AND Pedagogue and DBLAC (Digital Black Lit and Composition) collaborated on a miniseries that amplifies the pedagogies, practices, writings, and lived-experiences of Black-identified graduate students. Each episode is a conversation designed to uplift and celebrate Black teachers-scholars-students-activists. Episodes DBLAC/Pedagogue https://www.pedagoguepodcast.com/-dblac.html
Center for an Urban Future “Opportunity Costs“
Lisa Delpit “Acquisition of Literate Discourse: Bowing Before the Master?”
