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Precarity and Negotiations of Racialized Identities of Two POC Grad Instructors in a PWI

by Matthew Louie and Sujash Purna | Xchanges 19.1, Spring 2025


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Contents

Introduction

How We Come to This Work

Sharing Our Stories

How We Are Perceived

Additional Labor and Stressors on POC Graduate Students

Conclusion

References

About the Authors

References

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Baker-Bell, A. (2020). Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. Routledge. 

Cedillo, C. V. (2020) Disabled and undocumented: In/Visibility at the borders of presence, disclosure, and nation, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 50(3), 203-211, DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2020.1752131

Das, M., Flahive, M., Zhang, J., & Faris, M. J. (2023). Integrating the marginalized and the mainstream: Women of color graduate instructors’ experience with identity, difference, and belonging. In W. J. Macauley Jr., L. R. Anglesey, B. Edwards, K. M. Lambrecht, P. K. Lovas (Eds.), Threshold conscripts: Rhetoric and composition teaching assistantships (pp. 367-384). WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/threshold/

Gilligan, C. (2014). Moral injury and the ethic of care: Reframing the conversation about differences. Journal of Social Philosophy, 45(1): 89–106. DOI:10.1111/josp.12050.

González, C. L. (2020). Emerging through Critical Race Theory Counter-storytelling in a rhetoric and composition graduate studies context. Xchanges, 15(1), https://xchanges.org/emerging-through-crt-counter-storytelling-15-1

Inoue, A. B. (2019). How do we language so people stop killing each other, or what do we do about white language supremacy? College Composition and Communication, 71(2), 352-369.

Lee, I-H. (2023). First day of class. In W. J. Macauley Jr., L. R. Anglesey, B. Edwards, K. M. Lambrecht, P. K. Lovas (Eds.), Threshold conscripts: Rhetoric and composition teaching assistantships (pp. 65-66). WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/threshold/

Martinez, A. (2016). A plea for critical race theory counterstory: Stock story vs. counterstory dialogues concerning Alejandra’s “Fit” in the academy. In Condon, F. & V. A. Young (Eds.), Performing antiracist pedagogy in rhetoric, writing, and communication. (pp. 65-85). WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/atd/antiracist/

Randall, K. (2019, March 7). Uncoverage: The emotional labor of scholars of color. Erstwhile: A History Blog. https://erstwhileblog.com/2019/03/07/uncoverage-the-emotional-labor-of-scholars-of-color/

Sales, S. K. R. (2020). Unease with a face of certainty: A personal rhetorical history of my imposter syndrome. Xchanges, 15(1), https://xchanges.org/unease-with-a-face-of-certainty-15-1

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Youssef, S. (2023). International teaching assistants’ needs and undergraduate native English-speaking students’ expectations: Meaning negotiation as a rhetorical strategy. In W. J. Macauley Jr., L. R. Anglesey, B. Edwards, K. M. Lambrecht, P. K. Lovas (Eds.), Threshold conscripts: Rhetoric and composition teaching assistantships (pp. 239-266). WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/threshold/

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Posted by chanakya_das on Mar 25, 2025 in Issue 19.1

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