College Composition and Communication, Vol. 53, No. 4, June 2002

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• English Only and U.S. College Composition

  Bruce Horner and John Trimbur

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  Abstract: In this article, we identify in the formation of U.S. college composition courses a tacit policy of English monolingualism based on a chain of reifications of languages and social identity. We show this policy continuing in assumptions underlying arguments for and against English Only legislation and basic writers. And we call for an internationalist perspective on written English in relation to other languages and the dynamics of globalization.

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• Critical Pedagogy's "Other": Constructions of Whiteness in Education for Social Change

  Jennifer Seibel Trainor

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  Abstract: This article examines the contradictory representations of whiteness in the literature on critical pedagogy and argues that a deeper engagement with these contradictions can help critical educators in their work with white students. The essay explores a number of sites--the rhetoric of critical pedagogy, the literature on whiteness that has surfaced in the past five years--and concludes by analyzing portraits of white students as they read texts that challenge them to think about race and racial identity in new ways.

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• Race, Literacy, and the Value of Rights Rhetoric in Composition Studies

  Patrick Bruch and Richard Marback

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  Abstract: The fiftieth anniversary issue of CCC included a call from Geneva Smitherman for compositionists to renew the fight for language rights. In this article, we take up Smitherman’s call by situating the theory of language rights in composition studies in a brief history of rights rhetoric in the United States.

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• "To Protect and Serve": African American Female Literacies

  Elaine Richardson

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  Abstract: This chapter seeks to add to our understanding of literacy as it relates to African Americans, with a focus on African American female literacies. Primarily, I argue that mother tongue literacy is central to literacy education.

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• Learning Disability, Pedagogies, and Public Discourse

  Linda Feldmeier White

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  Abstract: I analyze the public and professional discourse of learning disability, arguing that medical models of literacy misdirect teaching by narrowing its focus to remediation. This insight about teaching is not new; resurgent demands for behaviorist pedagogies make understanding their continuing appeal important to composition studies.

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• REVIEWS

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• In Memoriam: Bob Boynton

  Peter Stillman and Charles I. Schuster

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• Reflections on the Missouri CWA Surveys, 1989-2001: A New Composition Delivery Paradigm

  Jane Frick and Nancy Blattner

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