That's a very, very common theme, it's not something that normally gets talked about out in the open, especially with somebody who is a stranger. ... If they're actually coming out and wanting to talk about it, then it's an issue.

Victor Villanueva

Victor Villanueva (born 1948) is a Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican academic and scholar in rhetoric and composition studies, serving the role of Regents Professor Emeritus at Washington State University. Villanueva was awarded NCTE’s David Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English for his groundbreaking book Bootstraps, From an American Academic of Color. In 2009, Villanueva was the recipient of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Exemplar's Award. Villanueva has written and edited a number of significant works on the topic of race, rhetoric, basic writing, and the social and political contexts of literacy education.

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