Writing Center Journal
Abstract
Counterstories from the Writing Center is a book that centers the perspectives and experiences of peoples of color in writing centers as tutors, administrators, and students. The book aims to educate all readers, but specifically “white, straight, cisgendered women (WSCGW)” (p. 5), whose presence has permeated writing center scholarship and work, about how writing centers often engage in representational change or practice, applying Band-Aid solutions that fail to enact social justice and antiracist practices. The goal of the book is to get readers to exercise a certain level of humility, to reflect on and accept responsibility, in order to enact genuine and true change that begins to address and resolve issues of racism in writing centers.
Recommended Citation
Hanson, Alexandria
(2022)
"Review: Counterstories from the Writing Center by Wonderful Faison and Frankie Condon,"
Writing Center Journal: Vol. 40
:
Iss.
2,
Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/2832-9414.1936
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