Free to... Be Black As Hell: Race-Radical Literacies, College Classrooms, and the Movement for Black Lives
Time: April 5, 2018, 2 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Location: Kilian Room, 500 Hall of Languages
Carmen Kynard (John Jay College)
More than a moment or occasion for race-related current events curriculum, the Movement for Black Lives works as a central force of creative energy and intellectual gravity in college classrooms today. In this public presentation, Carmen Kynard discusses her efforts to work against the tendency to erase Black student insurgency that make possible/visible everyday processes of literacy, learning, and studenting. Kynard looks closely at digital writing projects of her own multiracial college students today and reads their literate contributions as part of a long, protracted vision for an anti-racist schooling and democracy.
Biography: Carmen Kynard is associate professor of English at John Jay College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She has led numerous professional projects on race, language, and literacy and has published in Harvard Educational Review, Changing English, College Composition and Communication, College English, Computers and Composition, Reading Research Quarterly, Literacy and Composition Studies and more. Her first book, Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacy Studies won the 2015 James Britton Award and makes Black Freedom a 21st century literacy movement. Carmen traces her research and teaching at her website, “Education, Liberation, and Black Radical Traditions."
Additional supporters:
- Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition
- School of Education
- Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
- Democratizing Knowledge
- Women's & Gender Studies
Patrick Berry, Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition