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Centering BIPOC Women in Writing Studies

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This Women's History Month WikiProject Writing aims to improve the coverage of BIPOC women scholars of language, literacy, rhetoric, and writing and their contributions to these fields. We aim to address ongoing systemic racial bias on Wikipedia through our efforts.

This month, our goals are to …

  • Expand our lists of ‘redlinked’ articles in need of creation and articles in need of improvement that focus on, or could benefit from, the expertise represented in scholarship by BIPOC women scholars of language, literacy, rhetoric, and writing.
  • Create or expand and improve biographic articles on notable BIPOC women scholars of language, literacy, rhetoric, and writing studies.
  • Expand and improve a core set of high-traffic articles on topics of vital significance to the general public with a focus on citing and integrating knowledge from peer-reviewed scholarship by BIPOC women scholars of language, literacy, rhetoric, and writing studies.

Please join us!


Worklist

To coordinate our efforts and promote collaboration, we encourage you to let everyone know what article or parts of an article you’re working on. Here are a few great ways to use this list:

  1. Add articles you are working on along with a note about your plans and where you might like help.
  2. Add links to any draft articles you've created. (NB: When you create a draft others are able to edit this page alongside you. Whether or not you invite others to collaborate on the draft, it is important to mention that you are currently working on it so we can avoid the creation of the same article multiple times.)
  3. Reply to others if you would like to collaborate with them. You can respond below their comment with a note about your plans for contributions.

Whenever you post a note to other editors, be sure to sign it with ~~~~ to leave a digital signature. If you are responding to someone else's comment and are not sure how to format your reply using wikitext, follow the example listed at WP:THREAD. You will also find directions in the markup when you click on 'Edit source.'

  • I will be working on creating a basic draft for Gwendolyn D. Pough. I will add a link to my sandbox when I have started to create the article, any edits are welcome and appreciated. Breadyornot (talk) 15:31, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Articles in need of improvement

We welcome you to edit this page to add existing Wikipedia articles to this list that could benefit from the expertise represented in scholarship by BIPOC women scholars of language, literacy, rhetoric, and writing (as well as these scholars). If you can, please provide a short description of the edits needed to improve the article.

  • Life writing - just getting started, no mention of comp/rhet scholarship


Articles in need of creation

We welcome you to edit this page to add an article to our list of articles that don't yet but should exist on Wikipedia related to the scholarship of BIPOC women scholars of language, literacy, rhetoric, and writing. If you are unsure about whether a specific scholar or topic would be considered notable by the larger Wikipedian community, review the notability criteria for academics or leave a note on our talk page to ask other members of WikiProject Writing what they think. If you can, please provide a source or scholar that might be helpful in starting the article.

Major scholars

We have compiled a list of notable BIPOC scholars in need of creation and major edits, please join us in creating these pages. We also welcome you to add additional sources & scholars, keeping in mind the notability criteria for academics.

When creating a new article, we recommend submitting it in the draft space for review and feedback from experienced Wikipedia editors. Here's how:

  1. OPTION 1: Use the Wikipedia Article Wizard tutorial. This will walk you through step-by-step how to create a draft in a few easy steps.
  2. OPTION 2: Draft the article in your sandbox. This can be found in the top right of any Wikipedia page next to the 'Talk' button. (NOTE: You must be logged in to find your sandbox).
    1. Use this space to create your article. When you feel that is ready to be reviewed, click 'More' on the top right next to the star icon. Then, select 'Move' from the dropdown menu.
    2. Under new title, select 'Draft' from the drop down menu.
    3. Next to this field, change the name of the article from your sandbox to the topic of the article (i.e. Tamika L. Carey).
    4. Under the 'Reason' field write 'Ready for draftspace.'
    5. Deselect the 'Move associated talk page' box.
    6. Select 'Move page' and you're done! Look out for a review of your draft article.

When you submit a draft, let us know on the talk page. We would love to review the article as well.

Scholar Sources to get us started Establishing notability
Akua Duku Anokye Faculty page
  • Anokye, Akua Duku. “CCCC Chair's Letter.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 59, no. 3, 2008, pp. 557–566.
  • Anokye, Akua Duku. “Chair's Address: Voices of the Company We Keep.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 59, no. 2, 2007, pp. 263–275.
  • Anokye, Akua Duku, and Jacqueline Brice-Finch. Get It Together: Readings About African American Life. Longman, 2003.
  • Anokye, Akua Duku. “Housewives and Compositionists.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 47, no. 1, 1996, pp. 101–101., doi:10.2307/358276.
  • Anokye, Akua Duku. “Private Thoughts, Public Voices: Letters from Zora Neale Hurston.” Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 7, no. 2, 1996, pp. 150–159., doi:10.1080/09574049608578270.
  • Anokye, Akua Duku. “Oral Connections to Literacy: The Narrative.” Journal of Basic Writing, vol. 13, no. 2, 1994, pp. 46–60.
Tamika L. Carey Faculty page
  • Carey, Tamika L. Rhetorical healing: The reeducation of contemporary Black womanhood. SUNY Press, 2016.
  • Carey, Tamika L. “Necessary Adjustments: Black Women’s Rhetorical Impatience.” Rhetoric Review 39.3 (2020): 269-286.
  • Carey, Tamika L. “A Tightrope of Perfection: The Rhetoric and Risk of Black Women’s Intellectualism on Display in Television and Social Media.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48.2 (2018): 139-160.
  • Carey, Tamika L. “Take Your Place: Rhetorical Healing and Black Womanhood in Tyler Perry’s Films.” Signs, vol. 39, no. 4, 2014, pp. 999–1021.
  • Carey, Tamika L. "I’ll Teach You to See Again: Rhetorical Healing as Reeducation in Iyanla Vanzant’s Self-Help Books.” (2013) Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. 15.
  • Carey, Tamika L. “Firing Mama’s Gun: The Rhetorical Campaign in Geneva Smitherman’s 1971–73 Essays.” Rhetoric Review 31.2 (2012): 130-147.
Rasha Diab Faculty page
  • Diab, Rasha. Shades of Ṣulḥ: The Rhetorics of Arab-Islamic Reconciliation. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
  • Diab, Rasha, et al. “Rhetorical and Pedagogical Interventions for Countering Microaggressions.” Pedagogy, vol. 19, no. 3, 2019, pp. 455–481., doi:10.1215/15314200-7615417.
  • Diab, Rasha. “Legal-Political Rhetoric, Human Rights, and the Constitution of Medina*.” Rhetorica, vol. 36, no. 3, 2018, pp. 219–243., doi:10.1525/rh.2018.36.3.219.
  • Diab, Rasha, et al. “Making Commitments to Racial Justice Actionable.” Across the Disciplines, vol. 13, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1–17., doi:10.37514/ATD-J.2013.13.3.10.
Adela C. Licona Faculty page
  • Licona, A.C., Zines In Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric. SUNY Press. 2012.
  • Licona, A.C., & Chávez, K. "Relational Literacies and their Coalitional Possibilities." Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, vol. 18, no. 1, 2015.
  • Fields, A., Martin, L., Licona, A.C., & the Crossroads Collaborative. “Performing Urgency: Slamming & Spitting as Critical and Creative Response to State Crisis.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 20, no. 1, 2015.
  • Licona, A.C., & Maldonado, M.M. (2014) “The Social Production of Latin@ Visibilities and Invisibilities: Geographies of Power in Small Town America.” Antipode, 46:2. 2014.
  • Licona, A.C., & Russell, S. T. (2013). Transdisciplinary & community literacies: Shifting discourses & practices through new paradigms of public scholarship & action-oriented research. Community Literacy Journal 8(1), 1-7.
  • Licona, A.C. and Gonzales, S.J. “Education. Connection. Action., ECA: Reporting on ECA as a Frame for Community Arts-Based Inquiry, Action-Oriented Teaching and Research, and Multi-Perspectival Knowledges,” Community Literacy Journal, 8.1. 2013.
Shirley Wilson Logan Faculty page
  • Logan, Shirley Wilson, et al. Academic and Professional Writing in an Age of Accountability. Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.
  • Logan, Shirley Wilson. Liberating Language : Sites of Rhetorical Education in Nineteenth Century Black America. Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
  • Logan, Shirley Wilson. We are coming: The persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women. SIU Press, 1999.
  • Logan, Shirley Wilson. With pen and voice: A critical anthology of nineteenth-century African-American women. SIU Press, 1995.
  • Wilson Logan, Shirley. “Where the Sacred and Secular Harmonize: Birmingham Mass Meeting Rhetoric and the Prophetic Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 38, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 114–116.
  • Logan, Shirley Wilson. “Where in the World Is the Writing Program? Administering Writing in Global Contexts.” College English, vol. 78, no. 3, Jan. 2016, pp. 290–297.
  • Logan, Shirley Wilson. “Black speakers, white representations: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the construction of a public persona.” African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary perspectives (2004): 21-36.
  • Hijazi, Nabila. “We Cannot Teach Composition in Isolation; Anything We Say Is Culturally Shaped: An Interview with Shirley Wilson Logan.” Composition Forum, vol. 38, 2018.
Min-Zhan Lu Faculty page
  • Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. “Introduction: Translingual Work.” College English, vol. 78, no. 3, 2016, pp. 207–218.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. “Translingual Literacy, Language Difference, and Matters of Agency.” College English, vol. 75, no. 6, 2013, pp. 582–607.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan, and Bruce Horner. “Composing in a Global-Local Context: Careers, Mobility, Skills.” College English, vol. 72, no. 2, 2009, pp. 113–133.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan. “Living-English Work.” College English, vol. 68, no. 6, 2006, pp. 605–618.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan. “An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 56, no. 1, 2004, pp. 16–50.
  • Lu, Min-Zhan. “Articles - Redefining the Literate Self: The Politics of Critical Affirmation.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 51, no. 2, 1999, p. 172–194.
  • Bawarshi, Anis, et al. “Behind the Scenes of Writing: A Conversation with Min-Zhan Lu.” Writing on the Edge, vol. 9, no. 1, 1997, pp. 88–104.
Beverly J. Moss Faculty page
  • Moss, Beverly J. “‘Phenomenal Women,’ Collaborative Literacies, and Community Texts in Alternative ‘Sista’ Spaces.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, Fall 2010, pp. 1–24.
  • Moss, Beverly J, et al. eds. Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
  • Moss, Beverly J. A Community Text Arises: A Literate Text and a Literacy Tradition in African-American Churches. Hampton Press, 2003.
Gwendolyn D. Pough Faculty page
  • Pough, Gwendolyn D. Check it while I wreck it: Black womanhood, hip-hop culture, and the public sphere. Northeastern University Press, 2015.
  • Richardson, Elaine, and Gwendolyn Pough. “Hiphop Literacies and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture.” Social Identities, vol. 22, no. 2, 2016, pp. 129–132.
  • Pough, Gwendolyn D. “2011 CCCC Chair's Address: It's Bigger Than Comp/Rhet: Contested and Undisciplined.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 63, no. 2, 2011, pp. 301–313.
  • Pough, Gwendolyn D. “What it do, shorty?: Women, Hip-Hop, and a feminist agenda.” Black Women, Gender & Families 1.2 (2007): 78-99.
  • Pough, Gwendolyn D, and David G Holmes. “Revisiting Racialized Voice: African American Ethos in Language and Literatures.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 56, no. 2, 2004, pp. 342–342., doi:10.2307/4140654.
  • Pough, Gwendolyn D. “Empowering Rhetoric: Black Students Writing Black Panthers.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 53, no. 3, 2002, pp. 466–486.
Malea Powell Faculty page
  • Powell, Malea. “Making Native Space for Graduate Students: a story of indigenous rhetorical practice,” with Andrea Riley-Mukavetz. Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching Indigenous Rhetorics. Eds. Gubele, Anderson & King. Utah State UP, 2015. 138-159.
  • Powell, Malea. “2012 CCCC Chair's Address: Stories Take Place--A Performance in One Act.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 64, no. 2, 2012, pp. 383–406.
  • Powell, Malea. “Rhetorics of Survivance: How American Indians Use Writing.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 53, no. 3, 2002, pp. 396–434.
  • 2012 CCCC Chair
  • Editor, College Composition & Communication
  • Editor, Studies in American Indian Literatures
Elaine Richardson (writer) Faculty page
  • Richardson, Elaine. Po H# on Dope to PhD: How Education Saved My Life. Parlor Press, 2013.
  • Richardson, Elaine, and Gwendolyn Pough. “Hiphop Literacies and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture.” Social Identities, vol. 22, no. 2, 2016, pp. 129–132.
  • Richardson, Elaine. “Developing critical hip hop feminist literacies: Centrality and subversion of sexuality in the lives of Black girls.” Equity & Excellence in Education 46.3 (2013): 327-341.
  • Richardson, Elaine. “My ill literacy narrative: growing up Black, po and a girl, in the hood.” Gender and Education 21.6 (2009): 753-767.
  • Richardson, Elaine. “'To Protect and Serve': African American Female Literacies.” College Composition and Communication (2002): 675-704.
Jacqueline Jones Royster Faculty page
  • Royster, Jacqueline Jones, and Gesa E. Kirsch. Feminist rhetorical practices: New horizons for rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies. SIU Press, 2012.
  • Royster, Jacqueline Jones, and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins. Calling Cards : Theory and Practice in Studies of Race, Gender, and Culture. State University of New York Press, 2005.
  • Royster, Jacqueline Jones. Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803-2003. Ohio University Press, 2003.
  • Royster, Jacqueline Jones. Traces of a stream: Literacy and social change among African American women. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
  • Royster, Jacqueline Jones, and Molly Cochran. “Human Rights and Civil Rights: The Advocacy and Activism of African-American Women Writers.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 41.3 (2011): 213-230.


Vital articles

Please join us in improving high traffic, general interest articles related to language, literacy, rhetoric, and writing. This month we aim to improve the following vital articles by adding citations of and expertise from scholarship by BIPOC women scholars of language, literacy, rhetoric, and writing studies.

Vital articles are lists of subjects for which the English Wikipedia should have corresponding featured-class articles. They serve as centralized watchlists to track the quality status of Wikipedia's most important articles and to give editors guidance on which articles to prioritize for improvement.

Article How vital? Quality rank Average monthly pageviews Notes
Code switching level-5 vital article C 27,747
Communication level-2 vital article in Society C 78,204
Essay level-4 vital article in Art Start 49,720
Grammar level-3 vital article in Society C 39,356
Literacy level-4 vital article in Society C 21,904
Plagiarism level-4 vital article in Philosophy B 43,465
Rhetoric level-4 vital article in Society B 34,746
Writing level-2 vital article in Society C 26,081
Language level-1 vital article in Society GA 86,262
Technical communication & Technical writing level-5 vital article in Society Start & B 5,731 & 11,293

Resources

  1. Wikipedia editing for researchers, scholars, and academics
  2. Citing your own work
  3. Notability criteria for academic biographies
  4. Notability criteria for academic and technical books
  5. Tutorial on drafting articles

Events

The CCCC Wikipedia Initiative hosts monthly workshops & office hours. If you need some help getting started, have specific questions, or would like to bounce ideas off other academics, this is great space to do so:


Wikipedia as Public Scholarship

Friday 3/12 @ 1:30pm-3:00pm EST

Register here (limited to 15 participants)

This introductory workshop covers editing basics with particular attention to some of the specific concerns experts face on Wikipedia and discussion of how academics can use their expertise to advance knowledge equity online. Topics include navigating privacy issues, concerns around conflict of interest, and strategies for getting started with articles that need a lot of work.


Getting Started with WikiProject Writing

Friday 3/26 @ 12:00pm-1:30pm EST

Register here (limited to 15 participants)

This intermediate workshop introduces WikiProject Writing as a collaborative space for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia articles related to our areas of expertise. Topics include defining the scope of WikiProject Writing by tagging articles, directing the priorities of WikiProject Writing by assessing articles, and adding to and working from our list of articles in need of work and creation.


CCCC Wikipedian-in-Residence Office Hours

Tuesday and Wednesdays from 11:00am-1:30pm EST one-on-one OR Fridays @ 11:00am-1:00pm EST drop-in group editing session

Sign up here

If you would like to discuss something Wikipedia-related one-on-one or get help with a Wikipedia article you’re working on, please feel free to sign up for my office hours on Tuesdays and Wednesdays or email me to suggest another time. I host group office hours every other Friday if you want company while you edit so that you can bounce ideas off other experts - this is a great time for collaborative editing.