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“Mambo vijana, Congratulations”

Here is an example of a student’s formal writing assignment using code-meshing. It was used as an example by Suzanne Woodring during her presentation “Code-Meshing and Rhetoric: Engaging Audience and Language Diversity” at CCCC 2018.

Marvel’s “Black Panther”

Coogler, R. (Director). (2018). Black panther [motion picture]. Los Angeles: Marvel/Walt Disney. When Erik Killmonger arrives in Wakanda and is escorted into the room with King T’challa and his council, Erik speaks plainly in his dialect of AAVE, his native… Continue Reading →

“Me Fail English? That’s Unpossible!”

Forgione, A. & Radcliffe, A. (n.d.). Me fail English? That’s unpossible!: Multicultural literacies  Check out the online paper here: http://multiculturalliteracies.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/  

“Mother Tongue”

Tan, A. (2003). Mother tongue. In The Opposite of fate, Memories of a writing life (pp. 771-279). New York, NY: Penguin Group Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/0142004898

“Movin on up a Lil Higher”

Smitherman, G. (2004). Language and African Americans: Movin on up a lil higher. Journal of English Linguistics, 32(3), 186-196. Find the article at doi.org/10.1177/0075424204268223

“Not Today”

BTS (Hangul: 방탄소년단; RR: Bangtan Sonyeondan; Hanja: 防彈少年團; English: Bulletproof Boys) (2017). Not today. From the album You never walk alone. Seoul: Big Hit Entertainment. Check out the music video below, or another version with the lyrics in Hangul, Romanization, and English… Continue Reading →

“Of the Brain, by the Brain, and for the Brain”

Hobson, J. A. (2005). Sleep is of the brain, by the brain and for the brain. Nature, 437(7063), 1254-1256. Find this article at doi.org/10.1038/nature04283  

“Permission to Speak”

Harris, J. B. (2014). Permission to speak. In B. Terry, Afro-vegan, Farm-fresh African, Caribbean & Southern flavors remixed (pp. vii-viii). Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press. Find the book at worldcat.org/isbn/1607745313 An excerpt: As I paged through the manuscript, reading the text for… Continue Reading →

“Phone Call”

Key, K.-M., & Peele, J. (2011). Key & Peele: Phone Call. Comedy Central.

“Racism in Writing Programs”

Inoue, A.B. (2016). Friday Plenary Address: Racism in Writing Programs and the CWPA. Writing Program Administration 40(1); 134-154. Find the journal at worldcat.org/isbn/1602359148

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