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Publication Date: 2020-Apr
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"The Creative Aspect Woke Me Up": Awakening to Multimodal Essay Composition as a Fugitive Literacy Practice
Ohito, Esther O.
English Education, v52 n3 p186-222 Apr 2020
This article details a self-study dissecting an interracial group of students' theories of Blackness in a postsecondary classroom. I begin by conceptualizing "fugitive literacy practices" as tools with which to awaken and animate education as the practice of liberation from whiteness and anti-Blackness. I then approach multimodal essay composition as one such practice and illuminate its application in a classroom. I show how this practice affirmed students as empowered producers of knowledge. I contend that pedagogues must pivot away from the "disruption" of whiteness and anti-Blackness as a defined target, and turn toward the "destruction" of both as a desirable goal. I conclude by considering further inquiries that this provocation invites vis-à-vis curriculum and pedagogy in English teacher education. [This article was co-authored by the Fugitive Literacies Collective.]
Descriptors: Essays, Creative Writing, Literacy, College Students, Student Attitudes, Multiple Literacies, Whites, Racial Bias, Teaching Methods, English Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, English Instruction, Black Studies, African Americans, Minority Group Teachers, Liberal Arts, Racial Attitudes, Student Diversity, Undergraduate Students, Art Products, Blacks
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