Black Women Will Save Us: Partnering Black Feminist Theory With Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to Teach Undergraduate Writing

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Author(s): Rondrea Danielle Mathis (Bethune-Cookman University, USA)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 27
Source title: Teaching Humanities With Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): DuEwa M. Frazier (Coppin State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9782-1.ch005

Keywords: Gender & Diversity / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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This essay coalesces Gloria Ladson-Billings' culturally relevant pedagogy with bell hooks' and Patricia Hill Collins' Black feminist theory and pedagogy to teach undergraduate College English at a Historically Black College/University. The author explores assigning culturally relevant texts, engaging peer partnering/peer review, and using writing assignments to allow students to shift from a subjected position to the subject position. In this essay, the author also includes detailed assignment descriptions and a sample student submission as evidence of how assigning culturally relevant assessments might appear in the classroom. The essay closes with a brief reimagination of the classroom in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which now privileges an increased awareness of student's mental health and wellness.

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