Collaborating on Antiracist Praxis
The Writing Studies/Information Literacy committee at American University, which is a joint committee between the Writing Studies Program and Library, received an Inclusive Excellence Collaboration mini-grant to gather, annotate, and disseminate scholarship in antiracist praxis. There were three prongs to the Antiracist Praxis project: the creation of a subject guide and two in-person Teach-Ins. The Antiracist Praxis subject guide identifies the main ideas, key terms, and definitions within the scholarship that informs antiracist practice, particularly as they relate to composition pedagogy and library and information science. During the Antiracist Teach-in, there were discussion groups on topics such as anti-blackness, implicit bias, critical library studies, antiracist assessment theory, intersectionality, literary canonicity, etc. The project’s goal was to help all Library, Department of Literature, and Writing Center faculty and staff become fluent in the basic vocabulary of antiracist scholarship; to open up constructive dialogue about best practices; and to set the groundwork for truly informed faculty and staff antiracist standards and goal-setting.
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