Reading

Here are the readings for this course in the order we will discuss them:

Lambeth, Laurie Clements. 2016. “The Three-Legged Dog Who Carried Me“. New York Times.

Pratt, Mary Louise. 1991. “Arts of the Contact Zone”. Profession.

Hochschild, Arlie. 2013. “Empathy Maps”. In her So How’s the Family? University of California Press.

Mellix, Barbara. 1987. “From Outside, In”. Georgia Review.

Lu, Min-Zhan. 1987. “From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle”. College English.

Gee, James Paul. 1989. “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: An Introduction”. Journal of Education.

Anzaldúa, Gloria. 1987/2001. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. In Available Means: An Anthology of Women’s Rhetorics, edited by Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Rodriguez, Richard. 1978. “The Achievement of Desire: Personal Reflections on Learning ‘Basics'”. College English.

Dolmage, Jay. 2006. “”‘Breathe Upon Us an Even Flame: Hephaestus, History, and the Body of Rhetoric”. Rhetoric Review.

Baldwin, James. 1965. “Is the American Dream at the Expense of the American Negro?” Debate with William F. Buckley, Jr., Cambridge University.

Obama, Barack. 2008. “A More Perfect Union“. Speech at the Constitution Center, Philadelphia.

Brandt, Deborah. 1998. “Sponsors of Literacy”. CCC.

Heller, Nathan. 2016. “The Big Uneasy“. New Yorker.

Solnit, Rebecca. 2008/2012. “Men Explain Things to Me“. Guernica.

Kincaid, Jamaica. 2000. “A Small Place”. Chapter 1 of her A Small Place. Farrar, Straus.

Gay, Roxane. 2018. ‘”Fullness“. Medium.com. See also her 2017 Interview with Trevor Noah.