Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction Runnin with the Rabbits, but Huntin with the Dogs: On the Makings of an Intellectual Autobiography 1 Teaching Interlude I: Method Men and Women 21 1 “Before I’ll Be a Slave, I’ll Be Buried in My Grave” : Black Student Protest as Discursive Challenge and Social Turn in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literacies 25 Teaching Interlude II: Through Their Window 67 2 “I Want To Be African”: Tracing Black Radical Traditions with “Students’ Rights to Their Own Language” 73 Teaching Interlude III: Undoing the Singularity of “Ethical English” and Language-as-Racial-Inferiority 107 3 “Ain’t We Got a Right to the Tree of Life?”: The Black Arts Movement and Black Studies as the Untold Story of and in Composition Studies 111 Teaching Interlude IV: “Not Like the First Time, Talkin Bout the Second Time” 143 4 “The Revolution Will Not Be [Error Analyzed]”: The Black Protest Tradition of Teaching and the Integrationist Moment 149 viii Contents Teaching Interlude V: “Your Mother is Weak” 191 5 What a Difference an Error Makes: Ongoing Challenges for “White Innocence,” Historiography, and Disciplinary Knowledge Making 197 Outerlude: Leaving the Emerald City 233 Notes 251 Index 311 ...