Special Issue: Anti-Racist Activism: Teaching Rhetoric and Writing

antiracism, Teaching strategies, WAC, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, rhetorical theory, ethical framework, DEI, Globalization

Published August 7, 2013

Guest editors: Frankie Condon, University of Waterloo, and Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Kentucky

Despite widely circulated pronouncements of the death of racism in the U.S. following the election of President Barack Obama, politicians continue to appeal to race as a means of galvanizing their (predominantly white) bases, legislation across the States taps into deeply held racist beliefs and connects those beliefs with notions of citizenship and national identity, and efforts are underway nationwide to limit the ability of teachers and students to study the history of race and racism in the U.S. as well as the cultural and scholarly production of artists and intellectuals of color. This special issue helps meet a pressing need to continue and deepen a critical dialogue about race matters, particularly in classrooms that take up the pedagogical aims of synthesis, analysis, argumentation, persuasion and presentation, in short, the teaching of rhetoric and writing.

Special Issue: Anti-Racist Activism: Teaching Rhetoric and Writing

Published August 7, 2013

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