Open AccessVernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies by Carmen Kynard
Author(s) -
Ted Hall
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2016.337
Subject(s) - vernacular , rhetoric , scholarship , composition (language) , race (biology) , literacy , audience measurement , art , sociology , gender studies , literature , history , media studies , political science , linguistics , pedagogy , law , philosophy
Vernacular Insurrections Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies is a masterful study of race, literacy, rhetoric and composition that deserves the widest readership. Building on four decades of scholarship that reexamine the Student-led, Black Protest phase of the 1960’s movement, Vernacular Insurrections underscores the critical role of Black student organizations and the Black Arts Movement in the development of African American Literacies, Rhetorics, and Resistance