College English, Vol. 67, No. 3, January 2005

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• Local Pedagogies and Race: Interrogating White Safety in the Rural College Classroom

  Amy E. Winans

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  Abstract: Recognizing that critical thinking is enhanced by an engagement with diversity, the author illustrates how race can usefully be addressed in a predominantly white classroom through a local pedagogy that respects and addresses the complexities of students’ often contradictory experiences of race, rather than essentializing whiteness or identifying it only with white privilege.

  Keywords: College, Pedagogy

• Alinsky's Reveille: A Community-Organizing Model for Neighborhood-Based Literacy Projects

  Eli Goldblatt

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  Abstract: The author suggests that Saul Alinsky’s concept of community organization, a theory of action devised for neighborhoods rather than for higher education, might offer a new model of service-learning, and describes the Community Educators’ Collaborative at Temple University as one example of how such a model might work.

  Keywords: College, Literacy

• OPINION: Partisan Review, Our Country, and Our Culture

  Donald Lazere

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  Abstract: The author raises several issues regarding cultural shifts over the last half-century that he believes were evaded in the Fall 2002 Partisan Review symposium that gives his article its title—including attitudes toward mass culture, the significance and aims of cultural studies, the roles and institutional affiliations of the conservative counterintelligentsia, and the question of intellectual honesty and civility—in the hope of fostering a more productive dialogue between right and left than has recently been the case.

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• "Where Brains Had a Chance": William Mayo and Rhetorical Instruction at East Texas Normal College, 1889-1917

  David Gold

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  Abstract: The author offers a local, institutional microhistory of the work of William Leonidas Mayo, a figure who both exemplifies and complicates some of our more recent concepts of student-centered pedagogy, both to enrich our understanding of our disciplinary history and to illuminate trends in English studies of continuing interest to contemporary teachers and scholars.

  Keywords: College, Pedagogy

• REVIEW: Postcritical Perspectives on Literacy Technologies

  Stuart A. Selber

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  Abstract: Reviewed are Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction, edited by Pamela Takayoshi and Brian A. Huot, and Silicon Literacies: Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age, edited by Ilana Snyder.

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• ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS

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