Tracing the full intellectual and political tradition of Black Education is IMPOSSIBLE. So various zines are dotted across this course website created by graduate students, like the one below, to honor the canons/cannons and classics we need to know. It’s a way to focus on the newest scholarship without erasing deeply entrenched Black intellectual genealogies as white curricula so often do.
(These zines of the website will continue on and on.)
(These zines of the website will continue on and on.)
A Zine Exploring Word from the Mother: Language and African Americans
by Geneva Smitherman (Dr. G)
by Chris Atkins
To reference this zine:
Atkins, Chris. "'Nuthin But a G Thang': Geneva Smitherman's Word from the Mother (A Zine Exploring Word from the Mother: Language and African Americans by Geneva Smitherman)." Freedom School: The Rhetorics and Histories of Black Education. https://www.fugitivelearning.com/canon-word-from-the-mother.html
Atkins, Chris. "'Nuthin But a G Thang': Geneva Smitherman's Word from the Mother (A Zine Exploring Word from the Mother: Language and African Americans by Geneva Smitherman)." Freedom School: The Rhetorics and Histories of Black Education. https://www.fugitivelearning.com/canon-word-from-the-mother.html