Smitherman – CCCC’s Role in the Struggle for Language Rights

Smitherman, Geneva. “CCCC’s Role in the Struggle for Language Rights.” College Composition and    Communication, 50.3 (1999): 349-376. In this historiographic retelling of language diversity controversies from CCC publications Smitherman retraces arguments about linguistic difference through the first 40 or so years of the organization. S. claims that during the early years CCCC was a forum for debates about linguistic difference because... Read More

Kells – Mapping the Cultural Ecologies of Language and Literacy

Kells, Michelle Hall. “Mapping the Cultural Ecologies of Language and Literacy.” Cross-Language Relations in Composition. Eds. Horner, Bruce, Min-Zhan Lu and Paul Kei Matsuda. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. 204-11. Print. First K. recognizes that, in some senses, we’re all “transcultural citizens”; however, she then asks how we might actually map the cultural ecologies that shape language and literacy.... Read More

CCR751

Week One Additional Readings Keith Gilyard, Introduction:  Aspects of African American Rhetoric as a Field from African American Rhetorics:  Interdisciplinary Perspectives Manning Marable and Leith Mullings, Introduction:  Resistance, Reform, and Renewal in the African American Experience, from Let Nobody Turn Us Around Geneva Smitherman, “How I Got Ovuh:  African World View and Afro-American Oral Tradition” from Talkin that Talk: ... Read More