Writing Centers and the New Racism : A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Call to Action -- Part 1: Foundational Theories on Racism, Rhetoric, Language, and Pedagogy -- 1. The Rhetorics of Racism: A Historical Sketch -- 2. The "Standard English" Fairy Tale: A Rhetorical Analysis of Racist Pedagogies and Commonplace Assumptions about Language Diversity -- 3. Should Writers Use They Own English? -- Part 2: Toward an Antiracist Praxis for Writing Centers -- 4. Retheorizing Writing Center Work to Transform a System of Advantage Based on Race -- 5. Bold: The Everyday Writing Center and the Production of New Knowledge in Antiracist Theory and Practice -- 6. Beyond the "Week Twelve Approach": Toward a Critical Pedagogy for Antiracist Tutor Education -- 7. Organizing for Antiracism in Writing Centers: Principles for Enacting Social Change -- Part 3: Research, Critical Case Studies and the Messiness of Practice -- 8. Bias in the Writing Center: Tutor Perceptions of African American Language -- 9. Diversity as Topography: The Benefits and Challenges of Cross Racial Interaction in the Writing Center -- 10. Racial Literacy and the Writing Center -- 11. Breaking the Silence on Racism through Agency within a Conflicted Field -- Part 4: Stories of Lived Experience -- 12. "The Quality of Light": Using Narrative in a Peer Tutoring Class -- 13. Caught in a Firestorm: A Harsh Lesson Learned Teaching AAVE -- 14. On the Edges: Black Maleness, Degrees of Racism, and Community on the Boundaries of the Writing Center -- Index -- About the Authors.

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