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Netflix should always be your primary text.

#black rhetoric #critical literacy #texts in composition #pop culture

AAUP's annual report on faculty compensation takes on salary compression, gender inequality and more. Explore our exclusive database of AAUP faculty pay at 1,000 institutions.

Title: “Faculty Salaries Up 3%”

Article: “That amounts to about 1 percent, adjusting for inflation, the association notes with a cheeky reference point: presidents of institutions that participate in the AAUP’s annual study make 4.78 times more, on average, than their full-time professors.”

#black rhetoric #pay the teachers #freshman comp #history

Hey, all. I had to buy this book for a class I’m taking at CMU and I’ve discovered that it provides a lot of resources for understanding the basic conversations surrounding literacy theories. A lot of the work is dated, but foundational to the field. I’m providing the table of contents because you can honestly find all of these articles somewhere, which saves you on shipping.

#black rhetoric #critical literacy #literacy #pedagogy

Thus, on the one hand, English departments organize the use of cheap labor for the supra-income-generating composition course/product (given how many students take these courses, often many times, in comparison to how much their instructors earn); and on the other hand, they re-code the elite, high-brow gate-keeping of (literacy) discourses and language by removing freshman English teachers and their students.

Carmen Kynard, “Writing While Black: The Colour Line, Black Discourses and Assessment in the Institutionalization of Writing Instruction” (7)

#black rhetoric #writing while black #african american literacy #literacy #neoliberal university

In short, literacy is defined in context. It follows that if definitions of literacy are dependent on the context and community in which literacy is used, then the concept of a literate text must also be dependent on context and community.

Beverly Moss, A Literacy Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy Tradition in African American Churches (4)

#black rhetoric #community literacy #african american literacies #literate text #literacy

The intermittent controversies that arise every other decade or so over use of African American language in the classroom point to the fact that educational institutions have not internalized and accepted systematic approaches that center African American discourse community students in the literacy experience.

Elaine Richardson, African American Literacies (15)

#black rhetoric #african american literacies #aave #critical pedagogy

Some more data on Black homeownership in America. If you’re curious about regionality and demographics as they relate to this week’s readings, this may be a handy resource.

#black rhetoric #2008 financial crisis #homeownership #history

Stefano Harney and Fred Moten have collaborated on various projects over the past fifteen years, including a number of essays on the conditions of academic labor. Drawing from the black radical tradition...

A Harney and Moten interview conducted shortly before the release of The Undercommons. There’s a lot in it, but they offer some context and additional information on this week’s reading.

#black rhetoric #the undercommons #neoliberal university #resistance pedagogy #pedagogy

In this controversial scene, Roger Sterling serenades with "My Old Kentucky Home" to his bride Jane.

Though Mad Men is often criticized (rightly so) for its lack of recognition of Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement, this scene—in conversation with the Sparks piece—may help us understand why writers made such a rhetorical choice for most of the show’s tenure.

Hint: Racism isn’t just a Southern practice.

#black rhetoric #minstrel politics #mad men #rich white people #black face white body #pop culture

The university, then, is not the opposite of the prison, since they are both involved in their way with the reduction and command of the social individual. And indeed, under the circumstances, more universities and fewer prisons would, it has to be concluded, mean the memory of the war was being further lost, and living unconquered, conquered labor abandoned to its lowdown fate. Instead, the undercommons takes the prison as a secret about the conquest, but a secret, as Sara Ahmed says, whose growing secrecy is its power, its ability to keep a distance between it and its revelation, a secret that calls into being the prophetic, a secret held in common, organized as secret, calling into being the prophetic organization.

Harvey Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (42)

#black rhetoric #neoliberal universities #the undercommons

In the lampooning of Black sentience and progress minstrelsy took this notion beyond legal codes, into culture, and then into mass media, its representational logics evolving over time until they were rendered near invisible—but still present, dangerous, and ready to be activated. It is in this way that the rhetoric about Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign reveals that race in America grows more complex in its blatant nuances and still remains the unfinished business of our politics, our culture, and our society.

Anthony Sparks, “Minstrel Politics or ‘He Speaks Too Well’: Rhetoric, Race, and Resistance in the 2008 Presidential Campaign (37)

#black rhetoric #minstrel politics #law rhetoric #nuanced racism

To make claims for inclusion and humanity via the U.S. juridical assemblage removes from view that the law itself has been thoroughly violent in its endorsement of racial slavery, indigenous genocide, Jim Crow, the prison-industrial complex, domestic and international warfare, and so on, and that it continues to be one of the chief instruments in creating and maintaining the racializing assemblages in the world of Man.

Alexander Weheliye, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (81-82)

#black rhetoric #law rhetoric #judiciary #prison industrial complex #racialized assemblages

Hip-hop vs. rap. Though the iTunes store mashes the two terms into one convenient label for all of your urban listening needs...

Concise, helpful article on rap and hip-hop music/discourse.

#black rhetoric #rap #hiphop #pedagogy

In our latest #HSTBT, we take a look back at the very first hip-hop album to carry a "Parental Advisory" sticker. Find out what it was here.

hints in the tags

#black rhetoric #westcoast #tbt #ice cube #gangsta rap #history

It’s not fasting for sixty days, but it’ll do.

Commodification? Dialogue? Both? You decide.

#black rhetoric #titus andromedon #hold up #hip hop feminism #pop culture

[Beyoncé's] next movements can be read as destructive, not only to the people around her but also to herself. She has invested so much of herself into a love that has harmed her. She reacts out of her own humanity. It is in this moment we begin to see how Beyoncé’s generation of Black churched women will make their own lemonade out of lemons in ways that will contradict Black Church teachings.

Candice Benbow, “Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ and Black Christian Women’s Spirituality” (par. 2)

#black rhetoric #lemonade #hiphop feminism #hold up

Why study Hiphop discourse? Hiphop is a rich site of cultural production that has pervaded and been pervaded by almost every American institution and has made an extensive global impact. Hiphop discourse, no matter how commodified or 'blaxploited,' offers an interesting view of the human freedom struggle and aspects of the knowledge that people have about the world.

Elaine Richardson, Hip Hop Literacies (9)

#black rhetoric #hiphop discourse #neoliberalism #struggle and survival

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