Interests and Opportunities Race Racism and University Writing Instruction in the Post Civil Rights Era 1st Edition by Steve Lamos ISBN 0822961733 978-0822961734

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ISBN 10:  0822961733

ISBN 13:  978-0822961734

Author: Steve Lamos
In the late 1960s, colleges and universities became deeply embroiled in issues of racial equality. To combat this, hundreds of new programs were introduced to address the needs of u201chigh-risku201d minority and low-income students. In the years since, university policies have flip-flopped between calls to address minority needs and arguments to maintain u201cStandard English.u201d Today, anti-affirmative action and anti-access sentiments have put many of these high-risk programs at risk.

In Interests and Opportunities, Steve Lamos chronicles debates over high-risk writing programs on the national level, and locally, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Using critical race theorist Derrick BellÆs concept of u201cinterest convergence,u201d Lamos shows that these programs were promoted or derailed according to how and when they fit the interests of underrepresented minorities and mainstream whites (administrators and academics). He relates struggles over curriculum, pedagogy, and budget, and views their impact on policy changes and course offerings.

Lamos finds that during periods of convergence, disciplinary and institutional changes do occur, albeit to suit mainstream standards. In divergent times, changes are thwarted or undone, often using the same standards. To Lamos, understanding the past dynamics of convergence and divergence is key to formulating new strategies of local action and u201cstory-changingu201d that can preserve and expand race-consciousness and high-risk writing instruction, even in adverse political climates.

Table of contents: 

1. The Development and Evolution of High-Risk Writing Instruction

2. The Late 1960s and Early 1970s: Coming to Terms with Racial Crisis

3. The Mid-1970s: Literacy Crisis Meets Color Blindness

4. The Late 1970s and Early 1980s: Competence Concerns in the Age of Bakke

5. The Late 1980s and Early 1990s: Culture Wars and the Politics of Identity

6. The Late 1990s to the Present: The End of an Era?

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