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2011 · Atlanta

Resisting the Linguistic Pull, Continuing the Push: Hip-hop’s African American Language and Rhetoric as a Continuum of Black Movements for Education, Literacy, Equality, Freedom, and Liberation”

Session I.36

Area: Language · family: Language and literacy

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Carmen Kynard St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY → St. John's University
Speakers Jessica Barros University of Massachusetts, Boston → University of Massachusetts Boston By Way of West Africa: The Relations of Rhetorical Strategies in Cape Verdean Culture and Hip-Hop
Speakers Deborah Sanchez North Carolina Central University, Durham → North Carolina Central University ‘We are all queens’: The Literacy and Humanity of Dionne
Speakers Todd Craig St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY → St. John's University 360 Degrees of Revolution: Rhetorical Sovereignty and the Positionality of the Hip-hop DJ in the Comp Contact Zone

Source

NCTE's program, near page 216 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Resisting the Linguistic Pull, Continuing the Push: Hip-hop’s African American Language and Rhetoric as a Continuum of Black Movements for Education, Literacy, Equality, Freedom, and Liberation”.” 2011 Convention Program, Atlanta, session I.36. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.