[Factc] Why Educators Must Be Race-Literate: Developing Mindfulness About Inclusion and Equity in Online Literacy Instruction

[Jennifer Whetham]

Why Educators Must Be Race-Literate: Developing Mindfulness About Inclusion and Equity in Online Literacy Instruction


Time: Monday, June 22, 2020 1:00 PM PDT - Vershawn Ashanti Young (dr. vay)

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Description: This webinar describes why literacy educators must cultivate mindfulness about race and interracial communication when teaching reading, writing, speaking, listening, and visually representing. The webinar will focus on how educators can use their racial literacy to develop mindfulness about online language arts instructional material, diverse assessment practices, and codemeshing as a means to teach standard academic literacies to diverse students.

The presenter will be drawing from recent unpublished scholarship as well as his research in such publications as Other People's English: Code Meshing, Code Switching, and African American Literacy (Parlor Press, 2018); The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric (Routledge, 2018); Code Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, Performance (NCTE 2011) and Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity (Wayne State University Press, 2007).


dr. vay is currently the president/Chair of CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication-- https://cccc.ncte.org/) the largest academic organization dedicated to the teaching of college language, literacy, writing, and rhetoric. He teaches and publishes scholarship within the disciplines of K to College literacy, performance studies, communication, socialinguistics, writing, gender, and African American Studies. He is perhaps best known for his scholarship on the concept of code-meshing as an alternative to code-switching as it is used in by educators to teach language. Code-meshing advances that writers and speakers should use their home linguistic backgrounds to communicate, particularly in high stakes communication situations.


dr. vay has authoured or co-authoured 9 books, including The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric (Routledge 2018), Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow (Illinois 2018), Antiracist Pedagogy in Writing, Rhetoric and Communication Studies (Parlor Press 2016/17), and Other Peoples English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching and African American Literacy (2018 Parlor Press).


He is currently a professor in the departments of Communication Arts and English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada. He has served on the faculties at the University of Kentucky and the University of Iowa. He served a high school teacher of English and theatre, and has worked as an administrator in Los Angeles Unified School District.


dr. vay is an educational consultant to schools and organizations. He also continues to tour his one-man show “Your Average Nigga,” titled after his first book of the same name, that deals with the topics of code-meshing, code-switching, and educational success within an ethnographic framework. For more, see https://dr-vay2014.wixsite.com/vershawn-young

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I teach communication, English, and performance. I consult in the areas of cultural competency and diversity. I also have been developing the concept of code-meshing, using multiple Englishes and dialects in school and at work.
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Jennifer Whetham (pronouns: she/her/hers)

Assessment, Teaching, and Learning (ATL), Education Division

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC)

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