Interests and Opportunities : Race, Racism, and University Writing Instruction in the Post-Civil Rights Era.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Development and Evolution of High-Risk Writing Instruction -- Chapter 2. The Late 1960s and Early 1970s: Coming to Terms with Racial Crisis -- Chapter 3. The Mid-1970s: Literacy Crisis Meets Color Blindness -- Chapter 4. The Late 1970s and Early 1980s: Competence Concerns in the Age of Bakke -- Chapter 5. The Late 1980s and Early 1990s: Culture Wars and the Politics of Identity -- Chapter 6. The Late 1990s to the Present: The End of an Era? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Lamos chronicles several decades of debates over high-risk writing programs on the national level, and locally, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign using critical race theorist Derrick Bell's concept of "interest convergence." To Lamos, understanding the past dynamics of convergence and divergence is key to formulating new strategies of local action and "story-changing" that can preserve and expand race-consciousness and high-risk writing instruction, even in adverse political climates.Recipient of a special commendation from the 2013 (CCCC) Outstanding Book Award selection committee.

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