E-grāmata: CounterStories from the Writing Center

"Gathers emerging scholars of colour and their white accomplices to challenge the cherished lore about the work of writing centres. Writing within an intersectional feminist frame, the contributors name and critique the dominant role that white, straight, cis-gendered women have played. This will shake the field's core assumptions about itself."--

The emerging scholars united here offer an intersectional feminist perspective on race in the writing center; many share their own personal stories and struggles. Confronting the dominant role of white women in writing center administration and in the field of writing center studies, they uncover aspects of racism in writing center theory and practice. They demonstrate ways of resisting white, patriarchal emotional labor within the writing center and suggest antiracist pedagogy. The book’s readership includes writing center directors, scholars, and tutors, along with undergraduate and graduate students of writing center theory and practice. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

CounterStories from the Writing Center gathers emerging scholars of colour and their white accomplices to challenge some of the most cherished lore about the work of writing centres. Writing within an intersectional feminist frame, this volume’s contributors name and critique the dominant role that white, straight, cis-gendered women have played in writing centre administration as well as in the field of writing centre studies. This work will shake the field’s core assumptions about itself.
 
Practicing what Derrick Bell has termed “creative truth telling,” these writers are not concerned with individual white women in writing centres but with the social, political, and cultural capital that is the historical birthright of white, straight, cis-gendered women, particularly in writing centre studies. The essays collected in this volume test, defy, and overflow the bounds of traditional academic discourse in the service of powerful testimony, witness, and counterstory.
 
CounterStories from the Writing Center is a must-read for writing centre directors, scholars, and tutors who are committed to antiracist pedagogy and offers a robust intersectional analysis to those who seek to understand the relationship between the work of writing centres and the problem of racism. Accessible and usable for both graduate and undergraduate students of writing centre theory and practice, this work troubles the field’s commonplaces and offers a rich envisioning of what writing centres materially committed to inclusion and equity might be and do.
 
Contributors: Dianna Baldwin, Nicole Caswell, Mitzi Ceballos, Romeo Garcia, Neisha-Anne Green, Doug Kern, T. Haltiwanger Morrison, Bernice Olivas, Moira Ozias, Trixie Smith, Willow Trevino