Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media
Edited by Cruz Medina and Octavio Pimentel

This collection unpacks the shorthand that ignores the media produced by people of color, further erasing the rhetorical, oral, and aural traditions of these communities. It illuminates, disrupts, and challenges what is assumed about the relationship between people of color and technology. Digital writing environments provide contributors of this collection with the necessary media to create and communicate for the purposes of social activism, and these online spaces undergird the pedagogical practices of instructors engaging students with culturally relevant digital composing. Chapters expose the coded language about the same deficit narratives traditionally told about these populations, and the new media re-mixers re-write what is possible with access to ‘jailbreak’ the coded shorthand with liberated imaginations.

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Thanks to the generous support of the following programs and institutions:

  • 2016-2018 Bannan Institute Grant, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, Santa Clara University
  • Provost's Office for Academic Affairs at Santa Clara University
  • Department of English at Texas State University, San Marcos