Working Toward Racial Equity in First-Year Composition

Renee DeLong is a professor of English and LGBTQ literature at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA. Taiyon J. Coleman is an assistant professor of English Literature and Multicultural Literature at St. Catherine’s University, Minnesota, USA. Kathleen Sheerin DeVore is a professor of English at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA. Shannon Gibney is a professor of English and African diaspora studies at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA. Michael C. Kuhne is a professor of English at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA. Valerie Déus is a professor of English at Minneapolis College, Minnesota, USA.

Introduction: The Lover’s War, Prince's Side-Eye, and Dancing out of Innocence: The Politics of Academic Writing Taiyon J. Coleman, Renee DeLong, Valérie Déus, Kathleen Sheerin DeVore, Shannon Gibney, and Michael C. Kuhne



Chapter 1: The Risky Business of Engaging Racial Equity in Writing Instruction: A Tragedy in Five Acts Taiyon J. Coleman, Renee DeLong, Kathleen Sheerin DeVore, Shannon Gibney, and Michael C. Kuhne



Chapter 2: Literacy and the Project of Killing the Black Body Taiyon J. Coleman



Chapter 3: How I Woke up in a Dream and Walked Toward the Door Michael C. Kuhne



Chapter 4: Refusal as a Survival Tactic for Faculty of Color Valérie Déus



Chapter 5: Disruptive Healing and Engaging Exile: Stolen Strategies Kathleen Sheerin DeVore



Chapter 6: Nobody’s Mama: Interrogating White Mothering Impulses in the Classroom Renee DeLong



Chapter 7: My Pedagogy Is Courage: Women of Color, Institutional Violence, and Education as the Practice of Freedom Shannon Gibney



Conclusion: Joyfully Tearing it Down: A Conversation at the May Day Coffee Shop Taiyon J. Coleman, Renee DeLong, Valérie Déus, Kathleen Sheerin DeVore, Shannon Gibney, and Michael C. Kuhne