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When Love Hurts: Confronting William Styron’S Racial Misery In College Composition Classrooms, Natasha D. Moore
When Love Hurts: Confronting William Styron’S Racial Misery In College Composition Classrooms, Natasha D. Moore
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Acknowledging and attending to how professors feel about their students is an often ignored but fundamental component in creating relationship-rich pedagogy. This paper references William Styron’s “This Quiet Dust” to facilitate a transparent discussion about how we truly feel about Black Language, its role and use in the academy, and how these feelings ultimately shape how our Black students experience our encounters with them.