Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies by Carmen Kynard

Ted Hall

doi:10.5195/rt.2016.337

Abstract

Vernacular Insurrections Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies is a masterful study of race, literacy, rhetoric and composition that deserves the widest readership. Building on four decades of scholarship that reexamine the Student-led, Black Protest phase of the 1960’s movement, Vernacular Insurrections underscores the critical role of Black student organizations and the Black Arts Movement in the development of African American Literacies, Rhetorics, and Resistance.

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Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies (State University of New York Press, 2013)by Carmen Kynard
Building on four decades of scholarship that reexaminesthe student-led, Black Protest phase of the 1960s movements, Vernacular Insurrectionsunderscores the critical role of Black student organizations and the Black Arts Movementin the development of African American literacies, rhetorics, and resistance
Vernacular Insurrections has benefited from a growing body of scholarship on African American literacies and rhetorics

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Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies (State University of New York Press, 2013)by Carmen Kynard. New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies by Carmen Kynard Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studiesis a masterful study of race, literacy, rhetoric, and composition thatdeserves the widest readership.

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