THE CENTER FOR “RACE,” CULTURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
COLLOQUIA SERIES A Conversation With DANIEL COLE “Indian Questions: Native American Rhetoric, Writing Pedagogy, and the Possible Classroom” What kinds of arguments advance genocide and oppression? What kinds of arguments resist it? In this teaching workshop, we will inquire about how students might engage with Native American resistance-writing in ways that cultivate racial literacy, critical awareness, and cross-cultural acumen. We will draw upon past and present sites of conflict between Indigenous peoples and the West. Examining these problems will enable students to reconsider, on a rhetorical and epistemological level, dominant Western perspectives, and see alternatives beyond them. Through these discussions, students can attune themselves to the workings of conflict, and respond to ways that rhetoric of dominance, oppression, and white supremacy pervade Western discourses of “race.” Daniel Cole is an associate professor of writing studies and rhetoric at Hofstra University. He researches writing pedagogy, discourse analysis, and Indigenous rhetoric. His scholarship has been published in Rhetoric Review, College Composition and Communication,andThe WAC Journal.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Roosevelt Hall 203, South Campus Refreshments will be provided.
For more information, please call 516-463-6585 or email RaceCultureSocialJustice@hofstra.edu