TY - JOUR AU - Rodas, Julia Miele PY - 2019/11/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Radical Lessons in the Wake of Black Lives Matter JF - Radical Teacher JA - rt VL - 115 IS - SE - Anti-Oppressive Composition Pedagogies DO - 10.5195/rt.2019.674 UR - https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/article/view/674 SP - 48-63 AB - <p>This graphic essay focuses on the use of graphic composition strategies and includes work by contributing authors from my community college composition classroom. The main point of this piece is that *everyone deserves access to important ideas and information and that using comics to teach and to learn disciplines us to pare away the nonessential and prioritize foundational content. Pictures and emphatic word-art help clarify complex concepts for many who might otherwise struggle to master challenging written text. For these people, comics can provide a point of entry to discourse to which they might otherwise have had only marginal access. The exercise discussed in this graphic essay disentangles students from the pressures of performing conventional standards of (white) literacy while providing an avenue into antiracist reasoning and the discourse of public intellectuals of color.</p> ER -