Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition
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antiracism discourse
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communication
critical race studies
disempowerment
empowerment
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higher education
identity politics
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- ISBN 9781498590402
- Weight: 431g
- Dimensions: 159 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Erec Smith is associate professor of rhetoric and composition at York College of Pennsylvania.
