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This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innovative reading, writing, workshop, critique, and assessment strategies.
List of contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Decolonizing the Creative Classroom
Chapter Two: Preparing for Change
Chapter Three: Fostering Engagement, Mindfulness, and Generosity
Chapter Four: Instituting Reading and Writing Rituals
Chapter Five: Completing the Canon
Chapter Six: Owning the Language of Craft
Chapter Seven: TeachingWriters to Workshop
Chapter Eight:Conferencing as Critique
Chapter Nine: Promoting Camaraderie and Collective Power
Appendix: Platforming Writers of Color: A 21st Century Reference Guide
About the author
Felicia Rose Chavez is a digital storyteller with an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa. An award-winning educator, Felicia served as Program Director to Young Chicago Authors and founded GirlSpeak, a feminist webzine for high school students. She went on to teach writing at the University of New Mexico, where she was distinguished as the Most Innovative Instructor of the Year, the University of Iowa, where she was distinguished as the Outstanding Instructor of the Year, and Colorado College, where she received the Theodore Roosevelt Collins Outstanding Faculty Award. Her creative scholarship earned her a Ronald E. McNair Fellowship, a University of Iowa Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, and a Riley Scholar Fellowship. She is a co-editor, with Willie Perdomo and José Olivarez, of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, and her work has been featured in the Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, The Normal School, and Brevity, among others.
Summary
This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innovative reading, writing, workshop, critique, and assessment strategies.
Foreword
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