Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies

Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies
ISBN-10
1438446373
ISBN-13
9781438446370
Category
Education
Pages
340
Language
English
Published
2013-04-02
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Author
Carmen Kynard

Description

Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education. Winner of the 2015 James M. Britton Award presented by the Conference on English Education, a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English Carmen Kynard locates literacy in the twenty-first century at the onset of new thematic and disciplinary imperatives brought into effect by Black Freedom Movements. Kynard argues that we must begin to see how a series of vernacular insurrections—protests and new ideologies developed in relation to the work of Black Freedom Movements—have shaped our imaginations, practices, and research of how literacy works in our lives and schools. Utilizing many styles and registers, the book borrows from educational history, critical race theory, first-year writing studies, Africana studies, African American cultural theory, cultural materialism, narrative inquiry, and basic writing scholarship. Connections between social justice, language rights, and new literacies are uncovered from the vantage point of a multiracial, multiethnic Civil Rights Movement. Carmen Kynard is Associate Professor of English at St. John’s University.

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