Announcing a New Book by Frankie Condon and Vershawn Young: Performing Anti-Racist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication
From: Dr. Michael A. Pemberton, Professor, Editor, Across the Disciplines
I
am
very
pleased
to
announce
the
online
publication
of
the
first
volume
in
the
Across
the
Disciplines
Books
series,
Performing
Antiracist
Pedagogy
in
Rhetoric,
Writing,
and
Communication,
edited
by
Frankie
Condon
and
Vershawn
Ashanti
Young.
In
Performing
Antiracist
Pedagogy,
Frankie
Condon
and
Vershawn
Ashanti
Young
seek
to
help
create
openings
to
address
race
and
racism
not
only
in
course
readings
and
class
discussion
in
writing,
rhetoric,
and
communication
courses
but
also
in
wider
public
settings.
The
contributors
to
this
collection,
drawn
from
a
wide
range
of
disciplines,
urge
readers
to
renew
their
commitment
to
intelligently
and
publicly
deliberate
race
and
to
counteract
the
effects
of
racism.
The
book
is
both
theoretically
rigorous
and
practical,
providing
readers
with
insightful
analyses
of
race
and
racism
and
useful
classroom
suggestions
and
examples.
This book offers a significant expansion of Condon and Young's special issue of Across the Disciplines, originally published in 2013, with ten chapters divided into three sections (Actionable Commitments, Identity Matters, and In the Classroom) and a foreword by Asao B. Inoue. Published jointly by the WAC Clearinghouse and the University Press of Colorado, the book is now available as a free download (pdf and epub) in its pre-print version at http://wac.colostate.edu/books/antiracist/ . The print version of this text should be available in a few months for those of you who would like to buy a hard copy.