Open AccessRadical Lessons in the Wake of Black Lives Matter
Author(s) -
Julia Miele Rodas
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2019.674
Subject(s) - comics , composition (language) , point (geometry) , sociology , white (mutation) , literacy , visual arts , media studies , aesthetics , pedagogy , art , literature , biochemistry , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , gene
This graphic essay focuses on the use of graphic composition strategies and includes work by contributing authors from my community college composition classroom. The main point of this piece is that *everyone deserves access to important ideas and information and that using comics to teach and to learn disciplines us to pare away the nonessential and prioritize foundational content. Pictures and emphatic word-art help clarify complex concepts for many who might otherwise struggle to master challenging written text. For these people, comics can provide a point of entry to discourse to which they might otherwise have had only marginal access. The exercise discussed in this graphic essay disentangles students from the pressures of performing conventional standards of (white) literacy while providing an avenue into antiracist reasoning and the discourse of public intellectuals of color.