Books
Vernacular Insurrections: The Color Line, Black Protest, and
the New Century in Composition Studies. Albany, NY: SUNY
Press, revisions in progress.
Journal
Articles
with Eddy, Robert. “Toward a New Critical Framework:
Color-Conscious Political Morality and Pedagogy at Historically
Black and Historically White Colleges and Universities.”
College Composition and Communication, forthcoming
September 2009.
“‘Ain’t We Got a Right to the Tree of Life’: The Intersection of
Black Power, Black Arts, and Black Studies in the Revolution for
Students’ (Linguistic) Rights and Literacies.” Souls: A
Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society,
forthcoming Fall 2009.
“‘The Blues Playingest Dog You Ever Heard of’:
(Re)positioning Literacy Research Through African American Blues
Rhetorics.” Reading Research Quarterly 43.4 (October
2008): 356-373.
“Writing While Black: The Colour Line, Black Discourses,
and Assessment in the Institutionalization of Writing Instruction.”
English Teaching: Practice and Critique 7. 2 (September
2008): 4-34.
“’Wanted: Some Black Long Distance [Writers]’: Blackboard
Flava-Flavin and Other Afro-Digitized Experiences in the
Classroom.” Computers and Composition 24.3 (September
2007): 329-345.
“‘I Want To Be African’: In Search of a Black Radical
Tradition/African-American-Vernacularized Paradigm for ‘Students’
Rights to Their Own Language,’ Critical Literacy, and ‘Class
Politics.’ ” College English 69.4 (March 2007):
356-386.
Dickson, Randi and Peter Smagorinsky, with Jonathon Bush, Leila
Christenbury, Bobby Cummings, Marshall George, Peg Graham, Pamela
Hartman, Carmen Kynard, Hephzibah Roskelly, Susan Steffel, Ruth
Vinz, and Susan Weinstein. “Are Methods Enough? Situating
English Education Programs Within the Multiple Settings of Learning
to Teach.” English Education 38.4 (July 2006):
312-328.
“'Yall Are Killin’ Me Up In Here’: Response Theory from a
Newjack Comp Instructor/Sistuhgirl Meeting Her Students on the
Page.” Teaching English at the Two-Year College 33.4 (May
2006): 361-387.
“‘Looking for the Perfect Beat’: The Power of Black Student
Protest Rhetorics for Academic Literacy and Higher Education.”
Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education 12.3
(December 2005): 387-402.
Book Chapters
“In Memory of Damon, R.I.P.: Not all Writers Are Anglo, Not all
Writers are Bougsie, and Not All Writers are
Standardized-English-Only.“ Talking about Style: Essays
on Speaking Articulately about the Workings of Texts.
Eds. Elizabeth Hodges and Dona Hickey, forthcoming.
“‘Getting On The Right Side of It’: Problematizing and
Rethinking the Research Paper Genre in the College
Composition Course.” Genre Across the Curriculum.
Eds. Anne Herrington and Charles Moran. Logan, Utah: Utah
University Press, 2005. 128-151.
“‘Trying to Bend The Tree When It Is Already Grown’: Spanning
the Spectrum of African Diaspora Englishes in the Writing
Classroom.” Teaching English Today: Advocating Change in the
Secondary Curriculum. Eds. Barrie R. C. Barell, Roberta
Hammett, John S. Mayher, and Gordon M. Pradl. New York:
Teachers College Press, 2004. 92-105.
“‘New Life in This Dormant Creature’: Notes on Social
Consciousness, Language, and Learning in a College
Classroom.” Alt Dis: Alternative Discourses and the
Academy. Eds. Christopher Shroeder, Helen Fox, and
Patricia Bizzell. NH: Heinemann, 2002. 31-44.
Book Reviews
(with Melissa Cefalu). Review of Black Literate Lives:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by Maisha Fisher and
Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in
Nineteenth-Century Black America by Shirley Wilson
Logan. Changing English, forthcoming.
“‘Back Together Again’: Review of African American
Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition
Classroom by Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner.” Journal
of Advanced Composition 28.1-2 (2008): 379-389.
“‘A New World Transmission’: Review of Hiphop
Literacies by Elaine Richardson and Roc the Mic Right: The
Language of Hip Hop Culture by H. Samy Alim.”
Changing English 14.3 (December 2007): 383-391.
“Review of ‘Is This English’: Race, Language, and Culture in
the Classroom by Bob Fecho.” TCRecord.Org: The Voice of
Scholarship In Education. Summer 2004. Teachers College
Columbia University.
http://www.tcrecord.org/content.asp?ContentID=11344 [printed in
Teacher’s College Record 106.12 (December 2004): 2350-2358 ]
Other
Preface. tor’cha by Todd Craig. New York: Swank
Books, 2009.
“A Teacher’s Open Letter to Her Daughter.” Plymouth Writers
Group Literary Anthology of Teachers’ Writings Volume 9 (Fall
2004): 70-75. Reprinted in Life in Classrooms: Teachers
Write about Teaching and Learning. Plymouth, NH: The
Plymouth Writers Group, 2006. 110-114.
Manuscripts in
Progress
“‘I Carry The Eyes of Ida B. Wells’: The Poetics and
Counter-Epistemologies of Young Black Women Right-ing/Writing
The(ir) World.” (research completed; 30 pages ms)
“Cyber Sista-Cipher: Narrating Sisterhood, Black Female
Color-Consciousness, and Out-of-School Literacies in College”
(research completed; 20 pages ms)
“Seeing What We Can Do: Toward Counter- and Post-Standardization
in College Writing” (20 pages in preparation for submission)
“ ‘The Skin I’m In’: Color-Conscious Rhetorics and
Epistemologies of Urban Teacher Candidates of Color” (work funded
by Uses of Diversity in Undergraduate Instruction Grant from
Faculty of Arts and Science at Rutgers University-Newark;
IRB-exempted; research coding in progress)
“ ‘Each One, Teach One”: Service Learning Through
Discourses of Racial Solidarity and Shared Fate” (research
completed; 25 pages ms)
Sites of Recursive Memory: Poetics and Counter-Epistemologies of
Black Female College Students Right-ing/Writing The(ir) World (250
pages ms proposal in progress)