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DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Byrd presents findings from the third chapte
 r of his book tentatively titled The Literacy Pivot: How Black Adults Learn
  Computer Programming in a Racist World. Coding bootcamps must grapple with
  the reality that race and racism determine how Black students and their in
 structors do and do not leverage coding literacy into social mobility. To u
 nderstand how Clearwater Academy's curriculum and assessment practices rhet
 orically address this reality\, I conducted focus group interviews with ins
 tructors and Black adults and year-long participant observations. Findings 
 suggest that coding bootcamps are racial organizations whose curricula and 
 assessment practices “program” racially marginalized people into viable bit
 s of code called functions to assist in designing white software systems – 
 the technologies that largely center white end users and uphold white supre
 macist policies and practices. Black adults proposed an alternative vision 
 that uses their own knowledge and lived experiences to create a Black codin
 g literacy.\n\nAntonio Byrd is assistant professor of English at the Univer
 sity of Missouri Kansas City. He teaches technical communication\, digital 
 rhetoric\, and qualitative research methods. Antonio serves on the Modern L
 anguage Association and Conference on College Composition and Communication
  Joint Task Force on Writing and AI. His forthcoming book The Literacy Pivo
 t: How Black Adults Learn Computer Programming in a Racist World is under c
 ontract with The WAC Clearinghouse/University Press of Colorado.\n\nDr. Byr
 d’s visit is sponsored by the PNC Technology for Social Change speaker seri
 es in Pitt’s School of Computing and Information\; the Pitt English Composi
 tion Program\; Pitt English\; the Humanities Center\; Pitt Cyber\; and the 
 Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences.
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LOCATION:501 Cathedral of Learning
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SUMMARY:Dr. Antonio Byrd: Coding Black Functions for White Software Program
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