I hope I join the band: narrative, affiliation, and antiracist rhetoric
Date
2012
Authors
Condon, Frankie, author
Utah State University Press, publisher
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Abstract
Both from the Right and from the Left, we are stymied in talking well with one another about race and racism, by intransigent beliefs in our own goodness as well as by our conviction that such talk is useless. ... White antiracist epistemology needs to begin not with our beliefs, but with our individual and collective awakening to that which we do not know. Drawing on scholarship across disciplines ranging from writing and rhetoric studies to critical race theory to philosophy, I Hope I Join the Band examines the limits and the possibilities for performative engagement in antiracist activism. Focusing particularly on the challenges posed by raced-white identity to performativity, and moving between narrative and theoretical engagement, the book names and argues for critical shifts in the understandings and rhetorical practices that attend antiracist activism.
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rights Access
Access is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.
Subject
Anti-racism
Rhetoric -- Social aspects
Racism
Racism in literature
Racism -- Study and teaching