{"title":"Black Women and Social Justice Education: Legacies and Lessons by Stephanie Y. Evans, Andrea D. Domingue, and Tonia D. Mitchell (review)","authors":"Alicia L. Brunson","doi":"10.1353/caj.2021.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41663,"journal":{"name":"CLA JOURNAL-COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"64 1","pages":"329 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43582772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Over the past decades, much of the research in composition has focused on students’ writing proficiency and writing performance. Yet considerably few studies have examined the effects of essay prompts or topics on students’ writing performance. This study analyzes the effects of culture-referenced essay prompts on the writing quality of four hundred and eleven African American male students enrolled at Morehouse College. The population of subjects for this study includes students required to register for freshman English composition 101, freshman English composition 102, or freshman English composition 103. The pre-tests and post-test results reported a decrease in the number of students writing at the Novice level and an increase in the number of students’ essays at the Intermediate, Advanced, and Proficient levels. Writings samples of each proficiency level of Novice, Intermediate, Proficient, and Advanced are included.
{"title":"Some Results of Using Culture-referenced Prompts for Pre and Post-test Writing Examinations at an HBCU","authors":"N. Norment","doi":"10.1353/caj.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Over the past decades, much of the research in composition has focused on students’ writing proficiency and writing performance. Yet considerably few studies have examined the effects of essay prompts or topics on students’ writing performance. This study analyzes the effects of culture-referenced essay prompts on the writing quality of four hundred and eleven African American male students enrolled at Morehouse College. The population of subjects for this study includes students required to register for freshman English composition 101, freshman English composition 102, or freshman English composition 103. The pre-tests and post-test results reported a decrease in the number of students writing at the Novice level and an increase in the number of students’ essays at the Intermediate, Advanced, and Proficient levels. Writings samples of each proficiency level of Novice, Intermediate, Proficient, and Advanced are included.","PeriodicalId":41663,"journal":{"name":"CLA JOURNAL-COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"64 1","pages":"197 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46131860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Cultural Production: After Civil Rights ed. by Robert J. Patterson (review)","authors":"Katherine Karlin","doi":"10.1353/caj.2021.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41663,"journal":{"name":"CLA JOURNAL-COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"64 1","pages":"324 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48795126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meaning and Inspiration: A Brief Reflection on CLAJ's Creative Writing Section","authors":"Doris Davenport","doi":"10.1353/caj.2021.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41663,"journal":{"name":"CLA JOURNAL-COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"64 1","pages":"301 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43750465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alice Walker's Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit by Nagueyalti Warren (review)","authors":"Rochell Isaac","doi":"10.1353/caj.2021.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41663,"journal":{"name":"CLA JOURNAL-COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"64 1","pages":"320 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45276530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Cause that's the way the world turns\": John Edgar Wideman's Sent for You Yesterday and the Mnemonic Jukebox","authors":"Jurgen E. Grandt","doi":"10.1353/caj.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41663,"journal":{"name":"CLA JOURNAL-COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"64 1","pages":"234 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44836912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stories to Tell: Family and Reality in Hip-Hop Autobiographies","authors":"J. Meyers","doi":"10.1353/caj.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41663,"journal":{"name":"CLA JOURNAL-COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"64 1","pages":"214 - 233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43897645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I the above quotation from James Baldwin and Richard Avedon’s photoessay portfolio, Nothing Personal (first published in 1964), Baldwin, writing during a consequential moment in the fight for civil rights, offers a resounding imperative to his reader to say “yes” and embrace life. The basis Baldwin offers for why one must say “yes” is rooted in both memory and a kind of existentialism. Baldwin recalls a formative childhood experience in which his parents, amidst the terrors of racism, did not just bear life but affirmed it (60). Because he witnessed this affirmation, Baldwin maintains that he can affirm life too, and hence, the next generation, by witnessing him, can do the same. The “yes” in this passage is thus a speech act par excellence: It performs in its annunciation an act of affirmation, thereby making possible the survival of oneself and one’s progeny.1 It also calls to mind other resonant “yes” statements in works that similarly address the concern of how to live in and resist racist worlds: “Man is a yes that vibrates”, Frantz Fanon writes in Black Skin, White Masks (2), while Ralph Ellison’s protagonist, the invisible man unseen by anti-Black society, vows to “affirm, say yes” as a guiding principle (579). These “yes” statements, all offered by authors committed to the liberation of the Black experience, suggest that asserting “yes” constitutes an anti-racist strategy. But while these “yeses” clearly convey more than quotidian affirmation (e.g. “Yes, I hear you”), it is not clear what role they play within their authors’ anti-racist projects. A question arises: What purpose do these “yeses” serve for three authors who, though writing distinct projects, are all committed to creating what Aaron Ngozi Oforlea calls a “space where they are free to define themselves or articulate their subjectivity in any way they choose” (2)?
{"title":"One Must Say Yes: Poetic Acts of Affirmation in Works by Baldwin, Fanon, and Ellison","authors":"Jacob Pagano","doi":"10.1353/caj.2021.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0019","url":null,"abstract":"I the above quotation from James Baldwin and Richard Avedon’s photoessay portfolio, Nothing Personal (first published in 1964), Baldwin, writing during a consequential moment in the fight for civil rights, offers a resounding imperative to his reader to say “yes” and embrace life. The basis Baldwin offers for why one must say “yes” is rooted in both memory and a kind of existentialism. Baldwin recalls a formative childhood experience in which his parents, amidst the terrors of racism, did not just bear life but affirmed it (60). Because he witnessed this affirmation, Baldwin maintains that he can affirm life too, and hence, the next generation, by witnessing him, can do the same. The “yes” in this passage is thus a speech act par excellence: It performs in its annunciation an act of affirmation, thereby making possible the survival of oneself and one’s progeny.1 It also calls to mind other resonant “yes” statements in works that similarly address the concern of how to live in and resist racist worlds: “Man is a yes that vibrates”, Frantz Fanon writes in Black Skin, White Masks (2), while Ralph Ellison’s protagonist, the invisible man unseen by anti-Black society, vows to “affirm, say yes” as a guiding principle (579). These “yes” statements, all offered by authors committed to the liberation of the Black experience, suggest that asserting “yes” constitutes an anti-racist strategy. But while these “yeses” clearly convey more than quotidian affirmation (e.g. “Yes, I hear you”), it is not clear what role they play within their authors’ anti-racist projects. A question arises: What purpose do these “yeses” serve for three authors who, though writing distinct projects, are all committed to creating what Aaron Ngozi Oforlea calls a “space where they are free to define themselves or articulate their subjectivity in any way they choose” (2)?","PeriodicalId":41663,"journal":{"name":"CLA JOURNAL-COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"64 1","pages":"246 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46819496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I 2021, many educators and students of African descent have faced invisible barriers. These include whether critical race theory should be taught in schools during the novel Covid-19. Additionally, the #BlackLivesMatter movement responds to the ongoing routine of African Americans losing their lives during a time that mimics W.E.B. Du Bois’ declaration that “the problem of the twentieth century is the color line.” While the debates continue in higher education, a plethora of pedagogues have become disconnected with students of African descent due to a lack of effective Africana pedagogies to cultivate pupils’ authentic voices through critical thinking, writing, oral communication, and research skills.
{"title":"Commentary on Why Pedagogy Attention Is Needed in CLAJ","authors":"Monique Akassi","doi":"10.1353/caj.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/caj.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"I 2021, many educators and students of African descent have faced invisible barriers. These include whether critical race theory should be taught in schools during the novel Covid-19. Additionally, the #BlackLivesMatter movement responds to the ongoing routine of African Americans losing their lives during a time that mimics W.E.B. Du Bois’ declaration that “the problem of the twentieth century is the color line.” While the debates continue in higher education, a plethora of pedagogues have become disconnected with students of African descent due to a lack of effective Africana pedagogies to cultivate pupils’ authentic voices through critical thinking, writing, oral communication, and research skills.","PeriodicalId":41663,"journal":{"name":"CLA JOURNAL-COLLEGE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION","volume":"64 1","pages":"195 - 196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42619362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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