Lee’s Reviews > Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies > Status Update

“Besides the fact that ignoring the scholarship central to basic writing is a gross affront to the field, you cannot talk about issues of race, desegregation, and literacy in higher education without seeing basic writing as a polemical battlefield. That so much educational, historical, and political research has studied this moment without basic writing has battled me.”