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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">This is funny. Vay is pretty much my best friend in academia. I thought I mentioned this. We’ve known each other for years and even roomed together while at Cs and such, back in the day.
Unfortunately, I have student meetings all day tomorrow, or I’d be there. He’s very worth the time though. The book looks fantastic, but all his stuff is.
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<a href="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/3341379"><span style="color:#0563C1">Asao B. Inoue</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:black">Professor & Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:#8C1D40;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="200" height="36" style="width:2.0833in;height:.375in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D6CCC1.7E60DD00" alt="Arizona State University"></span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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440A Ira D. Payne Education Hall (EDB)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:black">Twitter: @AsaoBInoue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa)
Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. (from ASU Libraries’
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jennifer Whetham <jwhetham@sbctc.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, December 7, 2020 at 5:45 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>dehpd <dehpd-wactc@googlegroups.com>, "atlc@lists.ctc.edu" <atlc@lists.ctc.edu>, "factc@lists.ctc.edu" <factc@lists.ctc.edu>, "'Instruction Commission (deaninstr@lists.ctc.edu)'" <deaninstr@lists.ctc.edu>, "'Articulation and Transfer Council of IC
(atc@lists.ctc.edu)'" <atc@lists.ctc.edu>, "decomposingengl101@lists.ctc.edu" <decomposingengl101@lists.ctc.edu>, "stem@lists.ctc.edu" <stem@lists.ctc.edu>, SBCTC All Staff <SBCTCAllStaff@sbctc.edu>, "Guidedpathways@lists.ctc.edu" <guidedpathways@lists.ctc.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Asao Inoue <asao@asu.edu>, "french@fhpress.com" <french@fhpress.com>, Vershawn Young <vershawn.young@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject: </b>A Conversation with Dr. Vershawn Ashanti Young (Dr. vay): Teaching after George Floyd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Do you know the scholarship of <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/vershawn-young__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!N-sgWRHKrP1K3WGV15zQ-lRT_bG2GDFf3unG122WHSgav9lfk_ZPXK8R07MI-Gct6IIvuA$" title="https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/vershawn-young">
Dr. Vershawn Ashanti Young</a><span style="background:white">? Known as </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">dr. vay, he
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black">has recently edited a new textbook:
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/bit.ly/3lTQ21g__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!N-sgWRHKrP1K3WGV15zQ-lRT_bG2GDFf3unG122WHSgav9lfk_ZPXK8R07MI-GcZmj5ggw$" title="https://bit.ly/3lTQ21g">
This Ain't Yesterday's Literacy: Culture and Education After George Floyd</a>. I know this is short notice, but if you can, I highly urge you to
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/bit.ly/3lU7zpR__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!N-sgWRHKrP1K3WGV15zQ-lRT_bG2GDFf3unG122WHSgav9lfk_ZPXK8R07MI-Ge229BUfQ$" title="https://bit.ly/3lU7zpR">
register</a> for this event, described below. I have heard Dr. vay speak previously, and every time I have come away transformed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><img src="cid:image004.png@01D568A6.FA852FB0" align="left" alt="Title: SBCTC logo - Description: Compass"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#003764;background:white">Jennifer Whetham </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#003764;background:white">(pronouns:
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black">Vershawn Ashanti Young discusses his new reader "This Ain't Yesterday's Literacy"</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">A Conversation with Vershawn Ashanti Young</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Editor of the new reader
<i>This Ain't Yesterday's Literacy: Culture and Education After George Floyd</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Date: Tuesday, December 8th</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Conversation Topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;background:white">Having productive conversations with students about current social movements</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;background:white">Helping students understand historical conversations about race, protest, language and identity, and policing</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;background:white">How This Ain't Yesterday's Literacy was developed and designed to support students and faculty</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;background:white">Sharing insights about educating students—and ourselves—around these important topics</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Vershawn Ashanti Young, who goes by dr. vay, has been writing for newspapers and magazines for almost 20 years. He is a solo-performance
artist as well as professor of communication, race, gender, literature, writing, and performance. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including Other People's English (Parlor Press, 2019); The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric (Routledge
2018); and Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow (2018). He is currently the chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the largest educational organization dedicated to college literacies of communication and writing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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