Listening to Our Elders

by Blackman, Samantha; Kirklighter, Cristina; Parks, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780874218565
• ISBN10: 087421856X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-01
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

In 2011, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) turned one hundred years old. But our profession is endlessly beginning, constantly transforming itself and its purpose as new voices and identities claim their rights in our classrooms and in our country. The recognition of such claims, however, does not occur without a struggle, without collective work. Listening to our Eldersattempts to capture the history of those collective moments where teachers across grade levels and institutions of higher education organized to insure that the voices, heritages, and traditions of their students and colleagues were recognized within our professional organizations as a vital part of our classrooms and our discipline. In doing so, Listening to Our Eldersdemonstrates this recognition was not always easily given. Instead, whether the issue was race, sexuality, class, or disability, committed activist organizations have often had to push against the existing limits of our field and its organizations to insure a broader sense of common responsibility and humanity was recognized. Listening to Our Eldersfeatures interviews with Malea Powell (Native American Caucus), Joyce Rain Anderson (Native American Caucus), Jeffery Paul Chan (Asian/Asian American), James Hill (Black Caucus), James Dolmage (Committee for Disability Issue in College Composition), Geneva Smitherman (Language Policy Commitee), Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer (Latino/a Caucus), Victor Villanueva (Latino/a Caucus), Louise Dunlap (Progressive Caucus), Karen Hollis (Progressive Caucus), Louie Crew (Queer Caucus), William Thelin (Working Class Culture and Pedagogy SIG), Bill Macauley (Working Class Culture and Pedagogy SIG).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Listening to Our Elders	p. 1
American Indian Caucus "We wanted to have an open and welcoming space"	p. 6
An Interview with Malea Powell
"Work to be done"	p. 21
An Interview with Joyce Rain Anderson
Asian/Asian-American Caucus A Career of Acting "Ill-Mannered"	p. 28
An Interview with
Black Caucus	p. 45
A Conversation with James Hill
Committee on Disability Issues in College Composition "I simply gave up trying to present at CCCC..."	p. 56
A Conversation with the Committee on Disability Issues inCollege Composition
Language Policy Committee "TalkinÆ æBout a Revolution"	p. 87
A conversation with Dr. Geneva Smitherman on Language, Power, and Social Change
Latino/a Caucus Chicana Trailblazer in NCTE/CCCC	p. 122
An Interview with Carlota Cárdenas Dwyer
"When I came to the Caucus..."	p. 134
An Interview with Victor Villanueva
Progressive Caucus Combating Institutional Neutrality	p. 145
Remembering the Progressive Composition Caucus
Queer Caucus Renaming Curiosity/Resisting Ignorance	p. 155
Interviewing Queerness
Working-Class Culture and Pedagogy Special Interest Group The Conflict with Class	p. 175
An Interview with William Thelin
Working-Class Culture & Pedagogy S1G and Bring-A-Book	p. 189
Editor Profiles	p. 194
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