ARPRG
Anti-Racist Pedagogy Reading Group (ARPRG)
The Writing Program has a reading and discussion group for those who wish to participate. This group is informal, critical, and supportive. The group meets twice a quarter and the readings centered in our meetings so far include those below.
November 2022
October 12, 2022
Faison, Wonderful. “Full Disclosure: Black Afrocentric Rubrics.” RSQ 52.3 (2022): 270-281.
“Antiracist Pedagogy in Action.” CTL, Columbia University.
January 21, 2022
McKamey, Pirette. “What Antiracist Teachers Do Differently.” The Atlantic. 17 June 2020.
November 12, 2021
Special Issue: Black Lives Matter and Anti-Racist Projects in Writing Program Administration. Writing Program Administration 44.3 (Summer 2021).
October 15, 2021
Inoue, Asao. How Writing Teachers Dismantle White Language Supremacy (handout) & Habits of White Language (handout) (HOWL). Keynote, Conference for Antiracist Teaching, Language, and Assessment. 1 Oct 2021.
July 28, 2021: Writing Accomplices
Hutchinson, Glenn. Writing Accomplishments with Student Immigrant Rights Organizers. NCTE, 2021.
March 12, 2021: Racist Symbology
- Anderson, Great. “A Fraught Balancing Act.” Inside Higher Ed. January 11, 2021
- Faulkner, Sandra L., et al. “‘Treat Me like a Person, Rather than Another Number’: University Student Perceptions of Inclusive Classroom Practices.” Communication Education, vol. 70, no. 1, Routledge, Jan. 2021, pp. 92–111. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, doi:10.1080/03634523.2020.1812680.
- Gavin, Fernando. “The Hidden Meanings Behind the Far Right Hate Symbols on Display During the U.S. Capitol Riot.” SBSNews.”
- Jhaveri, Ishaan. “When is a Frog Not a Frog? Building a New Digital Tool to Track Political Symbols.” Columbia Journalism Review. 26 September 2019.
- Rosenberg, Matthew and Ainara Tiefenthäler. “Decoding the Far-Right Symbols at the Capitol Riot.” The New York Times. 13 January 2021.
January 15, 2021: White Language Supremacy:
Inoue, Asao B. “?” College Composition and Communication, vol. 71, no. 2, December 2019, pp. 352-369.
December 11, 2020: Race and Writing Program Administration
Mueller, Genevieve Garcia de, and Iris Ruiz. “Race, Silence, and Writing Program Administration: A Qualitative Study of US College Writing Programs.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 40, no. 2, Spring 2017.
October 30, 2020: Whiteness, Antiracism, Composition Programs
Sanchez, James Chase, and Tyler S. Branson. “The Role of Composition Programs in De-Normalizing Whiteness in the University: Programmatic Approaches to Anti-Racist Pedagogies.” Writing Program Administration, vol. 39, no. 2, Council of Writing Program Administrators, Mar. 2016, pp. 47–53.
September 14, 2020: bell hooks
hooks, bell. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.”
August 3, 2020: Antiracist Pedagogy
Condon, Frankie and Vershawn Ashanti Young, eds. Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication/Writing for Engagement: Responsive Practice for Social Action. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. 2016.
July 6, 2020: How to Be an Antiracist
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. First Edition, One World, 2019.
