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This is a collaborative and crowdsourced project. This list is intended to highlight BIPOC scholars, women scholars, emerging scholars, LGBTQIA+ scholars, and other scholars on the margin whose work is not often enough used in first year writing and technical communication courses. As more writing programs and departments work to anti-racist pedagogies and confront white supremacy and white language supremacy, one thing we can do is ensure our course reading lists are sites that privilege languaging, difference, thoughtfulness, and change. This is a yes-cite list. What texts, videos, podcasts, graphics, and so on should we be using in our courses so that our classes challenge hegemony, patriarchy, language and white supremacy?

Please list the academic and popular written texts, videos, podcasts, images, infographics, photo essays, art pieces, music, and other artifacts that are great for first year writing and technical communication courses.

NOTE: This list continues the work begun by Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq (@canaitch) and her Multiply Marginalized and Underrepresented scholars list (see that list HERE). While this list foregrounds both FYW and TC and how those texts might be used in classroom spaces, it owes a scholarly and professional debt to Dr. Itchuaqiyaq and her MMU TCR list.
NOTE: Don't worry about making sure the list is alphabetized unless you feel comfortable doing so. Occasionally someone will visit the list to sort by alpha and make sure everything is readable. If you feel comfortable sorting, etc. please do so. But do not feel obligated!
NOTE: This is a community list. Please do not remove texts. If you see something that does not meet the goals or vision of anti-racist pedagogies, please email NEXTGEN@LISTSERV.UTA.EDU and someone will make sure to address the problem.

Thank you for your help and contributions! Please let others know about the list. Here is the share link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ONAkDvuzGS4xAnqE0p-5kDseWS-5Hs_BDDwMy-wHUnk/edit?usp=sharing
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author's nameyeartitle of worklink (if possible)content, knowledge, skilltypical / foundational / canon text this might replace or work withFYW / TC + notes or considerations
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AlvarezSteven2017American English is best. In C. E. Ball & D. M. Loewe (Eds.), Bad ideas about writing. (pp. 93-98). Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University.https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdflanguagingsuggestions?FYW
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Baker-Bell
Williams-Farrier
Jackson
Johnson
Kynard
McMurtry
April
Bonnie J.
Davena
Lamar
Carmen
Teaira
2020This Ain't Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice!https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/demand-for-black-linguistic-justicelanguaging, race, intersectionality, antiracist pedagogiesFYW, TC
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BaughJohn2003Linguistic profiling. in S. Makoni, G. Smitherman, A. F. Ball, & A. K. Spears (Eds.), Black Linguistics: Language, Society, and Politics in Africa and the Americas (pp. 155-168). Routledge.https://web.stanford.edu/~jbaugh/Black%20Linguistics.pdflanguage, racesee also, John Baugh's (2019) TEDx talk on the same topic: "The Significance of Linguistic Profiling" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjFtIg-nLAA
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CavazosAlyssa G.2019Encouraging languages other than English in first-year writing courses: Experiences from linguistically diverse writers. Composition Studies 47(1), 38-56.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1047&context=wls_faclanguaging, fyw instructionsuggestions?FYW
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Cedillo
Bratta
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Phil
2019Relating our experiences: The practice of positionality in student-centered pedagogy. College Composition and Communication 71(2), 215-240.https://drive.google.com/file/d/121uRPYPuTGuSFu1VHgv0-DCCKwAs8ya1/view?usp=sharingpositionality"All Writing is Autobiography" by Donald MurrayFYW
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CedilloChristina2018What does it mean to move?: Race, disability, and critical embodiment pedagogy. Composition Forum 39.http://compositionforum.com/issue/39/to-move.phpaudience, embodimentsuggestions?FYW, TC
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Condon
Young
Frankie
Vershawn Ashanti
2016Performing antiracist pedagogy in rhetoric, writing, and communication, WAC ClearinghousePerforming Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication - The WAC Clearinghouseanti-racist pedagogynew foundational textFYW & TC -- perhaps mainly for the teachers, but perhaps some chapters would be appropriate for courses
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CunninghamJennifer M.2017African American language is not good English. In C. E. Ball & D. M. Loewe (Eds.), Bad ideas about writing. (pp. 88-92). Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University.https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdflanguagingsuggestions?FYW
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DavisSeth2019Shade: Literacy narratives at Black gay pride. Literacy in Composition Studies, 7(2), 56-89.https://licsjournal.org/index.php/LiCS/article/view/710literacy narratives, Black queer literaciesFYW
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DiabKefaya2016Delivery & Multimedia Composition: Re-claiming Agency in Digital Media for Advocacy and Social Changehttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/338980698_Book_Chapter_Delivery_Multimedia_Composition_Re-claiming_Agency_in_Digital_Media_for_Advocacy_and_Social_Change_Kefaya_Diabdigital rhetorics; social justiceFYW
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GonzalesLaura2019(?)
Interview with Pedagogue podcast
(episode) https://www.pedagoguepodcast.com/episodes.html
(transcript) https://www.pedagoguepodcast.com/uploads/4/1/9/0/41908851/laura_gonzales_transcript.pdf
digital rhetorics, technical communication, inclusive language practicesnew foundational textTC, right at the start of the semester
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GonzalesLaura2015Multimodality, translingualism, and rhetorical genre studies. Composition Forum 31.https://compositionforum.com/issue/31/multimodality.phpgenre, multimodality, languagingsuggestions?FYW, maybe also TC
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GonzalesLaura2018Sites of translation: What multilinguals can teach us about writing and rhetoric. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.https://www.press.umich.edu/9952377/sites_of_translationmultilinguals, translationChapters could be used in FYW
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Gonzales
Bloom-Pojar
Laura
Rachel
2018A dialogue with medical interpreters about rhetoric, culture, and language. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 1(1-2).View of A Dialogue with Medical Interpreters about Rhetoric, Culture, and Languageinterpretation as method & practiceSupplemenetal reading for small group discussionTC
(particularly OT/health science students collaborating with T&I students)
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GutiérrezKris D.2008Devloping a sociocritical literacy in the third space, Reading Research Quarterly, 43.2literacy studiesFYW
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Itchuaqiyaq
Frith
Cana Uluak
Jordan
2022Citational Practices as a Site of Resistance and Radical Pedagogy: Positioning the Multiply Marginalized and Underrepresented (MMU) Scholar Database as an Infrastructural Intervention. Communication Design Quarterly, 10(3), 10-19.https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=english_pubscitational practicesFYW
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Itchuaqiyaq
Matheson
Cana Uluak
Breeanne
2021Decolonizing Decoloniality: Considering the (Mis)use of Decolonial Frameworks in TPC Scholarship. Communication Design Quarterly, 9(1), 20-31. https://doi.org/10.1145/3437000.3437002https://cdq.sigdoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CDQ_9.1_2021.pdf#page=20decolonizationTC
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InoueAsao2015Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future, WAC Clearinghousehttps://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/inoue/antiracist assessmentnew foundational textFYW, TC
Perhaps mainly for the teachers, but perhaps some chapters would be appropriate for courses
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InoueAsao2019How do we language so people stop killing each other, Or what do we do about white language supremacy? Conference on College Composition and Communication Keynote Addresshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brPGTewcDYY&list=PLM0cK87NcSADximz0pmSzgufNAh0D-myx&index=2&t=0slanguaging; white language supremacynew foundational textFYW, TC
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InoueAsao2020Teaching antiracist writing. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 50(3), 134-156.antiracist assessement; antiracist reading; reading practice; rhetorical reading practicesalongside texts that present rhetorical reading strategies/practices (e.g. Haas & Flower)FYW
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JonesNatasha N.2016The technical communicator as advocate: Integrating a social justice approach in technical communication. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 46(3), 342-361.social justice in TC; advocacysuggestions?
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Moore
Walton
Natasha N.
Kristen R.
Rebecca
2016Disrupting the past to disrupt the future: An antenarrative of technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly 25(4), 211-229.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1790&context=english_facpubantenarrative, social justice, methodologysuggestions?TC
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MedinaCruz2019Decolonial potential in a multilingual FYC. Composition Studies 47(1), 74-95.https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1174&context=englliteracies, decolonialismread alongside Brandt's "Sponsors of Literacy"FYW
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MutnickDeborah2015The rhetorics of race and racism: Teaching writing in an age of colorblindness, Literacy in Composition Studies, 3(1).http://licsjournal.org/OJS/index.php/LiCS/article/view/66anti-racist pedagogynew foundational textFYW
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NakamuraKaren2018Karen Nakamura on disability studies and race. Othering & Belonging Institute.https://belonging.berkeley.edu/karen-nakamura-disability-studies-and-raceintersection of disability & raceSupplemental readingTC
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OlivasBernice2010Cupping the spark in our hands: ing a better understanding of the research question in inquiry-based writing. McNair Scholars Research Journal 6(1), 64-74.Cupping the Spark in Our Hands: Developing a Better Understanding of the Research Question in Inquiry-Based Writinginquiry, research question"The Argument as Conversation: The Role of Inquiry in Writing a Researched Argument" by Stuart GreeneFYW
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PattanayakAnjali2017There is one correct way of writing and speaking. In C. E. Ball & D. M. Loewe (Eds.), Bad ideas about writing. (pp. 82-87). Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University.https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdflanguagingsuggestions?FYW
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Perryman-Clark
Craig
Staci M
Collin Lamont
2020Black perspectives in writing program administration: From the margins to the center. National Council of Teachers of Englishhttps://store.ncte.org/book/black-perspectives-writing-program-administration-margins-center#_=_Black studies, writing program adminsitration
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PiñaManuel2020Who cares if Johnny writes with a pencil? Or, a hauntological historiography of materiality in composition-rhetoric. Rhetoric Review 39(2), 188-201.materialityInstead of or alongside "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies" by Dennis BaronFYW, TC
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PritchardEric Darnell2014Like signposts on the road': The function of literacy in constructing Black queer ancestors. Literacy in Composition Studies, 2(1), 29-56.http://licsjournal.org/OJS/index.php/LiCS/article/view/41Black queer literacies, intersectionalityFYW
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Rawson
Muñoz
Katie
Trevor
2019Against cleaning. Debates in the Digital Humanitieshttps://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/07154de9-4903-428e-9c61-7a92a6f22e51data considerations, data analysisTC courses: how to write about data
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Rose ChavezFelicia2021
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SackeyDonnie J.2019One-size-fits-none: A heuristic for proactive value sensitive environmental design. Technical Communication Quarterly 29(1), 33-48.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10572252.2019.1634767
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Sánchez-MartínCristina2016Language variation across genres: Translingualism here and there. Grassroots Writing Research Journal, 7(1), 33-43.https://www.isuwriting.com/_files/ugd/63de80_b79cd40a481a4e66885897337db45c9c.pdflanguagingFYW, TC
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SheltonCeci2019Shifting out of neutral: Centering difference, bias, and social justice in a business writing course. Technical Communication Quarterly 29(1), 18-32.social justice in TCsuggestions?TC
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SunHuatong2020Global social media design: Bridging differences across cultures. Oxford Universitiy Press.
Ch2. Designing for Empowerment with a Critical Practice Approach; Ch.3 Understanding the Criticality of Differences in Cross-Cultural Design; Ch. 4 Facebook Japan: Connecting Micro to Macro with Discursive Affordances
eBook is available in the Oxford Scholarsip Online or Oxford eBooks database, depending on your library subscriptionsocial justice, race, differences, decolonial, postcolonial, Global South, epistemic diversity, power, ideology, pedagogy, design instrumentsuggestions?TC, FYW
Ch.3 is a decolonial methodological review of cultural differences that applies writing scholarship to reconsider Western design standards. Ch.4 serves as a case study to illustrate the framework with a teaching instrument
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Thomas
Stornaiuolo
Ebony Elizabeth
Amy
2016Restorying the self: Bending towards textual justice. Harvard Educational Review 88(3).https://hepgjournals.org/doi/10.17763/1943-5045-86.3.313literacy studies, young adult education, fanfiction, restoryingFYW courses with regard to textual representation of subjectivity/experience, specifically around race
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TrainorJennifer2015Episode 27: Addressing racism in the classroom, interview with This Rhetorical Lifehttps://thisrhetoricallife.syr.edu/episode-27-addressing-racism-in-the-classroom/anti-racist pedagogynew foundational textFYW
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Tuck
Yang
Eve
K. Wang
2012Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1(1), 1-40.https://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%20metaphor.pdfdecolonizationFYW, TC
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VasuvedanLalitha2013Literacies in a participatory, multimodal world: The arts and aesthetics of Web 2.0. Language Arts 88(1), 43-50.https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9759/2634447911e8d7994a92c57f20c4c9a4fe3b.pdf (link does not match citation but is the correct text)multimodalitysuggestions?FYW
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VillanuevaVictor2015Writing provides a representation of ideologies and identities. in L. Adler-Kassner & E. Wardle (Eds.), Naming what we know: Threshold concepts of writing studies. (pp. 57-58). Logan: Utah State University Press.identity, threshold conceptFYW, TC
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WilsonShawn2008On the research journey. in Research is ceremony: Indigenous research methods. (pp. x-x). Fernwood Publishing.method/ologyFYW, TC
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YoungVershawn Ashanti2010Should writers use they own English? Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 12(1), 110-118.https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1095&context=ijcssuggestions?FYW
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YoungVershawn Ashanti2009"Nah, we straight": An argument against code switching. JAC, 29(1/2), 49-76.code meshingFYW
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