Critical Race Reading Theory

Composition Forum Oct 2025 RSS

Abstract

By Paul Corrigan. The term Critical Race Reading Theory (CRRT) identifies and amplifies a previously unnamed body of work in writing studies: several disparate sets of scholarly texts sharing a project of leveraging reading toward antiracist aims. CRRT comprises the disciplinary resources available to us to counter the damaging reductive understandings of race and of reading on display in attacks against books and against antiracism in the US. This essay describes the sources of CRRT in writing studies, attending to shifts in critical inquiry from one body of work to another. While reading studies offers critical insights about reading and antiracist studies offers critical insights about race, both leave important questions about antiracist reading unaddressed. However, emerging work in antiracist reading studies has begun to fruitfully address both reading and race together.

Journal: Composition Forum
Published: 2025-10-13
Topics: race and writing

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