“Engaging Race”: Teaching Critical Race Inquiry and Community-Engaged Projects
Abstract
This article argues for a purposeful, racial justice–focused framework for community-engaged projects in rhetoric and composition so that faculty, students, and community partners work together to understand and overcome the myriad ways racist and racial discourses perpetuate injustice. The author explores critical race inquiry in community-engaged projects by presenting analyses of successes and missed opportunities of an ongoing multi-year partnership with a small, local, all-volunteer, collector-based museum and the local branch of the NAACP. These projects reveal insights about pedagogy and disciplinary knowledge and suggest possible forward paths that may lead to more egalitarian partnerships, multi-perspectival knowledge, and impactful antiracist writing instruction in our classes and communities.
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- College English
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- 2017-11-01
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- 10.58680/ce201729372
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Piper (2024)Pedagogy
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Bay et al. (2021)Computers and Composition
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Cedillo et al. (2019)College Composition and Communication
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