Critical Rhetorics of Race

Critical Rhetorics of Race
Author: Kent A. Ono
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2011-07-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0814762360

According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze. In this groundbreaking collection edited by Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono, scholars seek to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. An outstanding group of contributors from a range of academic backgrounds challenges traditional definitions and applications of rhetoric. From the troubling media representations of black looters after Hurricane Katrina and rhetoric in news coverage about the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres to cinematic representations of race in Crash, Blood Diamond, and Quentin Tarantino’s films, these essays reveal complex intersections and constructions of racialized bodies and discourses, critiquing race in innovative and exciting ways. Critical Rhetorics of Race seeks not only to understand and navigate a world fraught with racism, but to change it, one word at a time.

Counterstory

Counterstory
Author: Aja Martinez
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-06-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9780814108789

Makes a case for counterstory as methodology in rhetoric and writing studies through the framework of critical race theory.

Critical Rhetorics of Race

Critical Rhetorics of Race
Author: Michael G. Lacy
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2011
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0814765297

In this collection scholars seek to examine the complicated and contradictory terrain of the rhetorics of race while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction.

Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial

Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial
Author: Gary A. Olson
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791441732

Six internationally renowned intellectuals are brought together in a cross-disciplinary dialogue that addresses rhetoric, writing, race, feminist theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.

Black or Right

Black or Right
Author: Louis M. Maraj
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1646421477

Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly educational—spaces. In it, Louis M. Maraj theorizes how Black identity operates with/against ideas of difference in the age of #BlackLivesMatter. Centering Blackness in frameworks for antiracist agency through interdisciplinary Black feminist lenses, Black or Right asks how those racially signifying “diversity” in US higher education (and beyond) make meaning in the everyday. Offering four Black rhetorics as antiracist means for rhetorical reclamation—autoethnography, hashtagging, inter(con)textual reading, and reconceptualized disruption—the book uses Black feminist relationality via an African indigenous approach. Maraj examines fluid, quotidian ways Black folk engage anti/racism at historically white institutions in the United States in response to violent campus spaces, educational structures, protest movements, and policy practice. Black or Right’s experimental, creative style strives to undiscipline knowledge from academic confinement. Exercising different vantage points in each chapter—autoethnographer, digital media scholar/pedagogue, cultural rhetorician, and critical discourse analyst—Maraj challenges readers to ecologically understand shifting, multiple meanings of Blackness in knowledge-making. Black or Right’s expressive form, organization, narratives, and poetics intimately interweave with its argument that Black folk must continuously invent “otherwise” in reiterative escape from oppressive white spaces. In centering Black experiences, Black theory, and diasporic Blackness, Black or Right mobilizes generative approaches to destabilizing institutional whiteness, as opposed to reparative attempts to “fix racism,” which often paradoxically center whiteness. It will be of interest to both academic and general readers and significant for specialists in cultural rhetorics, Black studies, and critical theory.

Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods

Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods
Author: Alexandria Lockett
Publisher: CSU Open Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Anti-racism
ISBN: 9781646421886

"Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods explores how antiracism, as a critical methodology, can be used to structure knowledge production about language, culture, and communication. In each chapter, the authors draw on this methodology to reflect on how their experiences with race and racism dramatically influence our cultural literacies, canon formation, truth-telling, and digitally mediated modes of interpretation"--

Rhetorical Listening

Rhetorical Listening
Author: Krista Ratcliffe
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780809326686

Long ignored within rhetoric and composition studies, listening has returned to the disciplinary radar. Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness argues that rhetorical listening facilitates conscious identifications needed for cross-cultural communication.

Colorblind

Colorblind
Author: Tim Wise
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-04-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780872865082

How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today

A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition

A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition
Author: Erec Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019-12-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1498590411

A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars. Erec Smith claims that empowerment theory—which promotes individual, communal, and strategic efficacy—is missing from most antiracist initiatives, which instead often abide by what Smith refers to as a "primacy of identity”: an over-reliance on identity, particularly a victimized identity, to establish ethos. Scholars of rhetoric, composition, communication, and critical race theory will find this book particularly useful.

Participatory Critical Rhetoric

Participatory Critical Rhetoric
Author: Michael Middleton
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-12-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1498513816

Increasingly, rhetorical scholars are using fieldwork and other ethnographic, performance, and qualitative methods to access, document, and analyze forms of everyday in situ rhetoric rather than using already documented texts. In this book, the authors argue that participatory critical rhetoric, as an approach to in situ rhetoric, is a theoretically, methodologically, and praxiologically robust approach to critical rhetorical studies. This book addresses how participatory critical rhetoric furthers understanding of the significant role that rhetoric plays in everyday life through expanding the archive of rhetorical practices and texts, emplacing rhetorical critics in direct conversation with rhetors and audiences at the moment of rhetorical invention, and highlighting marginalized voices that might otherwise go unnoticed. This book organizes the theoretical and methodological foundations of participatory critical rhetoric through four vectors that enhance conventional rhetorical approaches: 1) the political commitments of the critic; 2) rhetorical reflexivity and the role of the embodied critic; 3) emplaced rhetoric and the interplay between the field, text, and context; and 4) multiperspectival judgment that is informed by direct participation with rhetors and audiences. In addition to laying the groundwork and advocating for the approach, Participatory Critical Rhetoric also offers significant contributions to rhetorical theory and criticism more broadly by revisiting the field’s understanding of core topics such as role of the critic, text/context, audience, rhetorical effect, and the purpose of criticism. Further, it enhances theoretical conversations about material rhetoric, place/space, affect, intersectional rhetoric, embodiment, and rhetorical reflexivity.