Writing Accomplices with Student Immigrant Rights Organizers

ISBN-13: 9780814158500 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 185 str.

Glenn Hutchinson

Opis

How might writing instructors dedicated to community-writing or service-learning courses take into account and even mobilize the lived experiences of all their students? Veteran community-writing instructor Glenn Hutchinson charts the history of his understanding that the conventional goal of such courses, to engage students in their communities and help them become more active citizens, doesn't acknowledge the reality of the many college students who are prohibited from becoming US citizens, in spite of long years of residence in this country.

Writing Accomplices with Student Immigrant Rights Organizers argues for a pedagogical shift toward centering the public-writing classroom on students' work as organizers and rhetoricians. Instead of focusing only on community partnerships, the writing classroom can foreground the work of student organizers and how they can better inform the field's teaching practices. Each chapter focuses on students' rhetorical skills through petitions, op-eds, and campaigns to stop deportations. Hutchinson emphasizes teachers' responsibility to act in solidarity with immigrant students, pointing to a new role for the writing teacher in changing anti-immigrant and white supremacist laws and policies.