{"id":371,"date":"2017-03-29T10:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/?p=371"},"modified":"2017-05-06T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T23:15:07","slug":"textbook-reading-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/textbook-reading-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbook: Reading Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/51qOroQgfVL._SX399_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-410 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/51qOroQgfVL._SX399_BO1204203200_-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/51qOroQgfVL._SX399_BO1204203200_-241x300.jpg 241w, http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/51qOroQgfVL._SX399_BO1204203200_.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><em>Reading Culture<\/em>, edited by Diana George and John Trimbur, was the first textbook I used and is used throughout Emerson College&#8217;s First-Year Writing Program. Based on George and Trimbur&#8217;s backgrounds in rhetoric and composition, the reader comes from a social-epistemic orientation toward writing instruction. The\u00a0reader includes many of the readings from this website\u2014June Jordan, Min-Zhan Lu, Gloria Anzaldua\u2014along with a host of others.<\/p>\n<p>At Emerson College, we taught &#8220;in the contact zone,&#8221; meaning that we created moments of potential conflict and discomfort, but attempted to help students move through these and develop new and\/or deeper understandings of issues such as racism, sexism, and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Potential readings for a translingual classroom, other than those listed on this website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Judith Ortiz Cofer&#8217;s &#8220;Casa&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Mary Louise Pratt&#8217;s &#8220;Arts of the Contact Zone&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Khaled Mattawa&#8217;s \u201cHistory of My Face\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Bakari Kitwana&#8217;s \u201cRap and the Cotton Club\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Eva Sperling Cockroft and Holly Barnet S\u00e1nchez&#8217;s \u201cSigns from the Heart: California Chicano Murals\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mart\u00edn Espada&#8217;s \u201cAlabanza: In Praise of Local 100\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypearsonstore.com\/bookstore\/reading-culture-0205211259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Reading Culture: Contexts for Critical Reading and Writing<\/em><\/a>. Ed. Diana George and John Trimbur. Pearson, 8th edition, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Culture, edited by Diana George and John Trimbur, was the first textbook I used and is used throughout Emerson College&#8217;s First-Year Writing Program. Based on George and Trimbur&#8217;s backgrounds in rhetoric and composition, the reader comes from a social-epistemic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37,53,51,59,49,40,44],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teach","tag-academic","tag-code-switching","tag-collection","tag-contact-zone","tag-creative-writing","tag-education","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whitneylewjames.com\/translanguaging-tcu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}