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2019 · Pittsburgh

“This Is America”: Literacy, Revolution, and Black Narratives of Self-Actualization

Session K.2

Area: Postsecondary Reading/Literacy · family: Academic writing, reading and transitions

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Rhea Estelle Lathan Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University
Speakers Candace Shadia Daymond Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University Jane’s Dream, Gambino’s Reality: Cultivating Revolutionary Thought through Spatial Literacies and Projections
Speakers Janelle Jennings-Alexander Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University ‘It Still Deserve to Live’: Performing a Black Lives Matter Rhetoric in August Wilson’s King Hedley II
Speakers Kenneth Johnson Florida State University, Tallahassee → Florida State University ‘The streets done taught me everything I know’: Navigating the Streets via Cultural and Educational Literacies in Black Men’s Self-Writing

Source

NCTE's program, near page 284 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. ““This Is America”: Literacy, Revolution, and Black Narratives of Self-Actualization.” 2019 Convention Program, Pittsburgh, session K.2. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 3, 2026.