Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2009

Rhetoric of Race: Critical Pedagogy without Resistance

Caleb Corkery

Abstract

This essay reports on an effective approach to teaching both rhetorical skills and white racial awareness by using historical moments when racial definitions were asserted and defended, allowing students to see their constructed racial identities through a nonthreatening rhetorical lens.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2009-03-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc20097049
Open Access
Closed
Topics
race and writing

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  1. Ellwanger (2017)
    No Exit
    Pedagogy

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