Refereed Conference Papers (2002
to present only)
"I Carry The Eyes of Ida B. Wells": The Poetics and
Counter-Epistemologies of Young Black Women Right-ing/Writing The
World.” Conference on College Composition and Communication
(CCCC). San Francisco, CA. March 2009.
“Digital Sister-Cypher: Black Female College Students and the Quest
for Color-Consciousness, AfraFeminism, and Pan African Discourses
for Survival.” Literacy, Culture, and Learning and Life in Schools:
Research and Designs for Change of the NCTE Assembly for Research
at UCLA. Los Angeles, CA. February 2009.
“‘Uphold My End of the Bargain I Made With God’: The Cultural Work
and Rhetorics of Pan-African Dissent/Ascent for Black Female
College Students Online.” National Council of
Teachers of English (NCTE). San Antonio, TX. November 2008.
“Save the Hood, Save Myself”*: Color Conscious Pedagogies and
Rhetorics for/of Urban Teacher Candidates of Color.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication (CCCC). New Orleans, LA.
April 2008. (Poem by Mia Parker)
"Color-Conscious Rhetorics and Epistemologies: Urban Teacher
Candidates of Color and the Transformation of Teacher
Education." American Educational Research Association (AERA).
New York, NY. March 2008.
“The Critical Role of Color Conscious Pedagogies.” National Council
of Teachers of English (NCTE). New York, NY. November 2007.
“‘Before I’ll Be a Slave, I’ll Be Buried in My Grave’:
African American Student Activism as the New Literacies of Higher
Education.” American Educational Research Association (AERA).
Chicago, IL. April 2007.
“Cultivating ‘Voice Scholarship’ and ‘Cultural Capital’ in Urban
Teacher Education.” American Educational Research Association
(AERA). Chicago, IL. April 2007.
“Teachers of Color/Rhetorics of Color: When ‘Voice Scholarship’ and
‘Cultural Capital’ Shape Urban Education.” American
Educational Research Association (AERA). Chicago, IL. April
2007.
“‘Before I’ll Be a Slave, I’ll Be Buried in My Grave’:
African American Student Activism as the New Literacies of Higher
Education.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication (CCCC). New York, NY. March 2007.
“‘The Skin I’m In’: Using Voice Scholarship and Young Adult
Literature about Youth of Color to Transform Urban Teacher
Education Curriculum.” National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE). Nashville, TN. November 2006.
with Robert Eddy (Washington State University-Pullman).
“Color-Conscious Pedagogies: Counter-Hegemonic Figured Communities
for Students and Teachers.” Race and Pedagogy Conference.
University of Puget Sound, September 2006.
“’The Heresy of Sylvia Wynter’: Why We Must Return to the
‘Unsilencing’ of ‘Demonic Ground’.” The Association of Caribbean
Women Writers and Scholars ’06. Florida International
University, May 2006.
with White, Carolyne (Rutgers University-Newark) and Jamie
Lew (Rutgers University-Newark): “Decolonizing Methodologies?:
Re-searching With/in Indigenous, African American and Asian
American Communities.” American Educational Research
Association (AERA). San Francisco, CA. April 2006.
“‘Looking for the Perfect Beat’: The Power of Black Student Protest
Rhetorics for Literacy and Social Change.” American
Educational Research Association (AERA). San Francisco, CA. April
2006.
with Suzanne Carothers (New York University) and Yolanda
Sealey-Ruiz (Kingsborough Community College of CUNY): “‘Catching
Sense’: ‘AfraFeminist’ Rhetorics of Education, Literacy, and
Motherhood/ing.” Conference on College Composition and
Communication (CCCC). Chicago, IL. March 2006.
“‘I Carry The Eyes of Ida B. Wells’: ‘Traces of a Stream’ Amongst
First-Year Black Females in College Composition.” Conference
on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Chicago, IL. March
2006.
“‘Publicly Speaking Truth’: A Story of African American (Students’)
Rhetorics Meeting Institutional Racism and Hi-Stakes Testing.”
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Pittsburgh, PA.
November 2005.
“Blackboard Flava Flav-in and ‘Black Long Distance Writers’: The
Afro-Digital Experiences of Online Discussion Boards in Freshman
Comp.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
San Francisco, CA. March 2005.
“An Examination of Institutional Racism: Reading the Responses to
Freshman Writers Who Compose A Black Intellectual and Rhetorical
Tradition.” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Indianapolis, IN. November 2004.
“‘The Blues Playingest Dog You Ever Heard Of’: Bluesy Blues, Jazzy
Jazz, and Black Rhetorical Traditions in the (Children’s)
Literature of Walter Dean Myers.” Midwest Section of Modern
Language Association (M/MLA). November 2004.
“‘Trying to Bend The Tree When It Is Already Grown’: Black
Students, Racism, and Writing in Higher Education.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). New
York, NY, March 2003.
“Old School, New Rules: Black Students, Language, and
(Neo)colonialism in Higher Education.” Modern Language
Association (MLA). New York, NY. December 2002.
“Black Students’ Language Varieties.” Modern Language
Association (MLA). New York, NY. December 2002.
“Stories from Black Students’ and Teachers’ Journeys Into Literacy:
Explorations of Reading and Writing from the Elementary to the
Postsecondary Classroom.” Panel Presentation. National Association
for Multicultural Education (NAME). Washington DC, October
2002.
“Freire and the University.” Third International Paulo Freire
Forum. Los Angeles, CA, September 2002.
Invited Talks and
Presentations
Participant, “Symposium for the Study of Writing and Teaching
Writing” directed by Peter Elbow. June 2, 2009 to June 5,
2009.
Research Presentation, “Cyber Sista-Cipher: Narrating
Sisterhood, Black Female Color-Consciousness, and Out-of-School
Literacies in College,” Women and Society, Columbia University, May
18, 2009.
Keynote Speaker. The Martha L. King Center for Language and
Literacies--- An African and African American Diaspora Literacies
Speaker Series. Ohio State University, May 11, 2009.
Panelist, “Multilingual Learning Across the Curriculum.”
Writing Across the Curriculum Colloquium V, Rutgers University, May
10, 2007.
Panelist, “Evolution of Hip Hop Culture.” Rutgers Office of
Student Life and Leadership, November 2006.
Presenter, “ ‘Where Did You Catch Sense?’ Race and Black Protest in
New Literacies.” Provost Annual Research Day. Rutgers
University-Newark, April 25, 2006.
Presenter, “ ‘Sistas in the Struggle’: When Black Female Students
Read and Write the Word and World.” Cornwall Center for
Metropolitan Studies. Rutgers University-Newark, March 8,
2006.
Panelist, “Remembering Rosa Parks.” Institute for Culture,
Ethnicity and the Modern Experience. Rutgers
University-Newark, January 18, 2006.