Mapping racial literacies : college students write about race and segregation / Sophie R. Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Sophie R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Social aspects--United States.

English language.

College students' writings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Based on a mixed-methods study of students' writing in a first-year writing course themed around race and shows college student writing that directly confronts lived experiences of segregation-and, increasingly, of re-segregation. This textual ethnography embeds students' writing in deep historical and theoretical contexts" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : groundings : racial literacy and racial geographies

Mapping whiteness : hypersegregation, colorblindness, and counterstory from Brown v. Board to Michael Brown

"It's real" : peer review and the problems of colorblindness and empathy

"Your grammar is all over the place" : translingual close reading, antiblackness, and mapping linguistic geographies

"Saying honest things we wish weren't true" : racial literacy sponsorship and challenges to white hypersegregation

Epilogue : mapping countergeographies in "how racism takes place."

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781646421107

1646421108

OCLC:

1242106239