#blackrhetorics

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...if I don't talk about race, how will my students ever know how their whiteness affects society before they leave their suburban neighborhoods and rural homes, go off to college or into the workforce, and carry on their lives as if slavery never happened?

Vershawn Shanti Young (2004), “Your Average Nigga,” (p. 695).

[fourcrazycatlady]

Langston Hughes (1926), in The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Lewis, 1994) p. 91-95

[fourcrazycatlady]

[fourcrazycatlady]

Double consciousness is continually manufactured in writing classrooms. In fact, it's commonly reproduced at all levels of literacy instruction because so many educators, including many blacks, promote it.

Vershawn Ashanti Young (2009),  “‘Nah, We Straight’: An Argument Against Code Switching,” p. 54.

[fourcrazycatlady]

Professors who embrace the challenge of self-actualization will be better able to create pedagogical practices that engage students, providing them with ways of knowing that enhance their capacity to live fully and deeply

bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress

[fourcrazycatlady]

As women we have been taught to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between and individual and her oppression. But community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

Audre Lorde, “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”

[fourcrazycatlady]

Such revisionism--one that reads King as aloof from or majestically out-of-touch with the majority at any time during his leadership--offers a false reading of the past. Moreover, at this complex moment of late-capitalism, such revisionism woefully limits majority interests in a black public sphere, an arena that requires perhaps more urgently than ever before, the good office of critical memory

Houston A. Baker, Jr. (1994), “Critical Memory and the Black Public Sphere,” Public Culture 7.

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