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

By Erec Smith

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781498590426
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9042-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Ethnic groups & multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc