ABSTRACT

This book presents the authors’ attempts to interrogate the ways that white institutional, pedagogical, and curricular heteronormativity affects equity in writing instruction at Two Year Colleges. Written from a wide range of subject and identity positions, this volume explores issues that arise among students inside historically white-dominant classrooms, among faculty as curriculum and hiring decisions are made, and among colleagues when they attempt to engage the wider institution in equity work. Aiming to significantly change how urban Community College writing instruction is delivered in this country, the book operates on the principle that equity is essential to successful writing pedagogy, curricular development, and student success.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

The Lover’s War, Prince’s Side-Eye, and Dancing out of Innocence: The Politics of Academic Writing

chapter 2|13 pages

Literacy and the Project of Killing the Black Body 1

The Dangers of Being Black While Writing and Teaching Writing in the College Composition Classroom

chapter 5|41 pages

Disruptive Healing and Engaging Exile

Stolen Strategies

chapter 6|13 pages

Nobody’s Mama

Interrogating White Mothering Impulses in the Classroom

chapter 7|8 pages

My Pedagogy Is Courage

Women of Color, Institutional Violence, and Education as the Practice of Freedom 1

chapter |11 pages

Conclusion

Joyfully Tearing It Down: A Conversation at the May Day Coffee Shop