The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom

By Felicia Rose Chavez

Book Overview

The Antiracist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering artistic communities for a new millennium of writers. Inspired by June Jordan 's 1995 Poetry for the People, here is a blueprint for a 21st-century workshop model that protects and platforms writers of color. Instead of earmarking dusty anthologies, imagine workshop participants Skyping with contemporary writers of difference. Instead of tolerating bigoted criticism, imagine workshop participants moderating their own feedback sessions. Instead of yielding to the red-penned judgement of instructors, imagine workshop participants citing their own text in dialogue. The Antiracist Writing Workshop is essential reading for anyone looking to revolutionize the old workshop model into an enlightened, democratic counterculture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1642592676
• ISBN13: 9781642592672
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Required reading for writing teachers

I recently read this book for a grad school class, and it is the best “professional development” I’ve ever gotten. I would encourage all teachers of writing to read this book. Chavez provides detailed steps for improving the writing workshop to be more equitable, meaningful, and engaging. While her experience is at the collegiate level, many of her strategies could easily be implemented at the high school level. I cannot wait to use what I’ve learned in my own classroom this fall!