Critique of Anti-Racism in Rhetoric and Composition - The Semblance of Empowerment

This book critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars and a "primacy of identity" that values lived experience over critical thinking.

List of contents

Introduction: Something "More Than a Negro"
Chapter 1: The Primacy of Identity: Prefiguration, The Sacred Victim, and the Semblance of Empowerment
Chapter 2: So What is Empowerment?
Chapter 3: Disempowerment and Code-meshing Pedagogy
Chapter 4: The "Soft Bigotry" of Antiracist Pedagogy: Victims, Tricksters, and Protectors
Conclusion: Getting Over Ourselves and Centering Empowerment
Epilogue: Am I Overreacting?

About the author

Erec Smith is assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at York College of Pennsylvania.

Summary

This book critiques current antiracist ideology in rhetoric and composition, arguing that it inadvertently promotes a deficit-model of empowerment for both students and scholars and a "primacy of identity" that values lived experience over critical thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Erec Smith
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781498590402
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9040-2
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, antiracism discourse, communication, critical race studies, disempowerment, empowerment, higher education, identity politics, race studies, racialized language, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc