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This Ain't Yesterday's Literacy

This Ain’t Yesterday’s Literacy: Culture and Education After George Floyd

Edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young

Release: December 20, 2020
Top Hat edition (preferred interactive option): 978-1-64485-441-9
Ebook edition: 978-1-64485-412-9

Vershawn Ashanti Young

Vershawn Ashanti Young

Vershawn Ashanti Young, who goes by dr. vay, has been writing for newspapers and magazines for almost twenty years. He is a solo performance artist as well as a professor of communication, race, gender, literature, writing, and performance. He is the author or coauthor 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 (University of Illinois Press, 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.

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About the Book

The themes and units in this book encourage conversation about, reflection on, and analysis of culture, education, and literacy in the wake of protests over George Floyd’s death.

All Units include an Introduction by Vershawn Young and an End-of-Unit Assignment suggestion. Individual readings are introduced and contextualized and include a Furthering the Conversation section that extends the topic in meaningful ways, including additional articles, performances, speeches, and videos that are embedded or linked directly in the text.