Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future

This book, like all others, is the culmination of more than my efforts.In many ways, I’m simply the messenger, shouting the news to others.Over the last five years, I’ve had lots of help thinking, rethinking, conceiving, discussing, and reading drafts of what would become what you hold in your hands.First, I thank my wife, Kelly Inoue, without whom I cannot do what I do every day.She makes me a better teacher, father, husband, scholar, and person just by living her example of compassionate service.I live in her long shadow and am grateful for her patience and love.I thank Victor Villanueva, my mentor and friend, who read parts of Chapter 1, and has been a constant encouragement to me.I learned much from him and his work about race and racism, and about being cheerful in the face of so much wrong in the academy.Victor is my surrogate academic father.I thank Bill Condon, my other mentor, who introduced