William James argued that for a difference to be a difference, it must make a difference. He would have liked Keith Gilyard’s new book on the relevance of Cornel West to composition. One strand of the book is a lucid theoretical guide to West’s intellectually expansive yet deeply passionate call to public engagement. The other strand is an artfully performed guide to being an educator in the experimental, improvisational tradition of American pragmatism.
A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric