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Kermit Campbell Annotated Bibliography Works About CampbellHolmes, David G. “Fighting Back by Writing Black: Beyond Racially Reductive Composition Theory.” Race, Rhetoric, and Composition. Ed. Keith Gilyard. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1999. 53–66.
Holmes discusses Campbell’s doctoral dissertation, along with many other writers, commending his study of black vernacular and its relationship to both linguistic and cultural or social aspects of students’ lives. Holmes does criticize Campbell, however, for not explicitly stating what exactly makes “black verbal expression” different from “white verbal expression” (60), arguing that these generalizations cannot be applied to entire races of people. He identifies with Campbell in the sense that their relationships to black vernacular have been questioned at times, and thus wonders how black vernacular can be studied rhetorically without the generalizations he sees present in Campbell’s work. |