Open admissions : the poetics and pedagogy of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich in the era of free college / Danica Savonick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Savonick, Danica, 1990- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bambara, Toni Cade.

Jordan, June, 1936-2002.

Jordan, June.

Lorde, Audre.

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012.

Rich, Adrienne.

City University of New York--History.

City University of New York.

African Americans--Education (Higher)--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

African Americans.

African American women in higher education.

Feminist literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In Open Admissions Danica Savonick traces the largely untold story of the teaching experience of Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Adrienne Rich at the City University of New York (CUNY) in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This period, during which CUNY guaranteed tuition-free admission to every city high school graduate, was one of the most controversial moments in US educational history. Analyzing their archival teaching materials-syllabi, lesson plans, and assignments-alongside their published work, Savonick reveals how these renowned writers were also transformative teachers who developed creative methods of teaching their students both to navigate and change the world. In fact, many of their methods, such as student-led courses, collaborative public projects, and the publication of student writing, anticipated the kinds of student-centered and antiracist pedagogies that have become popular in recent years. In addition to recovering the pedagogical legacy of these writers, Savonick shows how teaching in CUNY's free and open classrooms fundamentally altered their writing and, with it, the course of American literature and feminist criticism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The winds of possibility

Toni Cade Bambara's community-controlled and multimodal pedagogy

"This class . . . has much to teach America" : June Jordan's public and project-based pedagogy

Of parallels and intersections : Adrienne Rich's pedagogy of location

Sharing the ilumination : Audre Lorde's pedagogies of difference

An education worth fighting for.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Savonick, Danica, 1990- Open admissions.

ISBN:

9781478059639

147805963X

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.