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PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING
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Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future
Asao B. Inoue
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© 2015 by Asao B. Inoue. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Inoue, Asao B., author.
Title: Antiracist writing assessment ecologies : teaching and assessing
writing for a socially just future / Asao B. Inoue.
Description: Fort Collins, Colorado : The WAC Clearinghouse, [2015] | Series:
Perspectives on writing | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015037961 | ISBN 9781602357730 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subjects: LCSH: English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching
(Higher)--United States--Evaluation. | English language--Rhetoric--Study
and teaching (Higher)--Social aspects--United States. | Discrimination in
higher education--United States. | Anti-racism--Study and teaching.
Classification: LCC PE1404 .I47 2015 | DDC 808/.0420711--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015037961
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Contents
Introduction: Writing Assessment Ecologies as Antiracist Projects
Chapter 1: The Function of Race in Writing Assessments
Chapter 2: Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies
Chapter 3: The Elements of an Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecology
Chapter 4: Approaching Antiracist Work in an Assessment Ecology
Chapter 5: Designing Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies
Appendix A: English 160W’s Grading Contract
Appendix B: Example Problem Posing Labor Process
Acknowledgments
This book, like all others, is the culmination of more than my efforts. In many ways, I’m simply the messenger, shouting the news to others. Over the last five years, I’ve had lots of help thinking, rethinking, conceiving, discussing, and reading drafts of what would become what you hold in your hands. First, I thank my wife, Kelly Inoue, without whom I cannot do what I do every day. She makes me a better teacher, father, husband, scholar, and person just by living her example of compassionate service. I live in her long shadow and am grateful for her patience and love. I thank Victor Villanueva, my mentor and friend, who read parts of Chapter 1, and has been a constant encouragement to me. I learned much from him and his work about race and racism, and about being cheerful in the face of so much wrong in the academy. Victor is my surrogate academic