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In 1974, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) adopted the Students’ Right to Their Own Language resolution (full statement published in College English the following year). This landmark resolution acknowledged that differences in language production vary according to individual and group non-negotiable differences. While Students’ Right helped to reinforce and legitimize the ways historically marginalized speakers make meaning out of language, scholarship in the field of alternative literacies was already underway long before CCCC formally recognized deviations from standardized English. Entire ecologies of meaning-making, such as African-American literacies, African-American rhetoric, Black English, and Black discourse had been (and continue to be) ripe for investigation.
Citation Information
Type of Publication: Review
Author: Mikayla Beaudrie
Year of Publication: 2021
Title: “On African-American Rhetoric, by Keith Gilyard and Adam J. Banks“
Journal: Comp Studies 49(1)
Page Range: 184-187