Black or Right: Anti/Racist Rhetorical Ecologies at an Historically White Institution

Autor/in	Maraj, Louis Maurice
Titel	Black or Right: Anti/Racist Rhetorical Ecologies at an Historically White Institution
Quelle	(2018), (284 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, The Ohio State University
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	979-8-3795-2191-2
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Racism; Social Justice; Critical Race Theory; Rhetoric; Ecology; Predominantly White Institutions; Intersectionality; Feminism; Diversity; Activism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Rassismus; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Rhetorik; Ökologie; Feminismus; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest
Abstract	This dissertation intervenes in antiracist scholarship's recent trend of acknowledging/openly critiquing whiteness as primary means to dismantle white supremacy in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy (Ratcliffe, Inoue). I use intersectional Black Feminist thought (Lorde, Cohen), buttressed by Black Studies (DuBois, Godwin-Woodson, Weheliye) and Afrocentric philosophy (Asante, Mazama), to interrupt that trend by examining marginalized antiracist agency, through analysis of meanings of blackness in the US vis-a-vis institutional power. In centering blackness, I apply "a critical method" that "presents a positive rather than a reactionary posture" (Asante) in mobilizing generative approaches to destabilizing institutional whiteness, as opposed to reparative attempts that often paradoxically center whiteness. At the crux of this project is an attempt to establish a lens for reading "rhetorical ecologies of race"--race relations interrelated through space, culture, and context. I use that lens to undertake a case study of a large Midwestern historically white institution, Midwestern State University, during a defined cultural moment (post-Ferguson). "Black or Right" foregrounds its Black feminist rhetorical analysis with an eye toward a fracturing multiplicity through a relational methodology, building from Sara Ahmed's work in "On Being Included." In doing so, I expand Ahmed's focus on diversity practitioners by emphasizing different positions/locations within the historically white educational institution under scrutiny while adopting differing vantage points or roles from which I analyze material: through a concentration on graduate student positionality (autoethnographist) in Chapter 2; in undergraduate student work in my antiracist composition classroom (critical pedagogue) in the following chapter; via the cultural context of historical, populist, and pedagogic meanings of #BlackLivesMatter (cultural rhetorician) in the fourth chapter; and within the praxis of policy (a combination of three previous roles) at the historically white institution in question in the fourth. This study works--through each chapter's particular argument, and in assuming multiple relationships to those arguments--to highlight the complexity of relations between the Black body, Black resistance, and Black meaning-making at the US historically white university. I call the field's attention to Black struggles and potentialities within that space. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01