
Rhetoricians Assemble: A Roundtable of Black Rhetoric Faculty
Rhetoricity
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The Early Rhetoric and Composition That Really Helped Me Find Myself
Roxanne Jones: I think i stumbled into the field of rhetoric and composition by by tragedy, actually. The 9 11 event ended up with me losing my job and deciding to go get my masters. And so that new work introduced me to language politics, and it had me searching for ways to affirm my black students. "I'm consuming as a way to celebrate black vernacular language," she says.
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