Rhetorical Revolution
| Autor: | Denise Taliaferro Baszile |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Qualitative Inquiry. 21:239-249 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7565 1077-8004 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1077800414557830 |
| Popis: | Critical race theory (CRT) has fundamentally been about “talking back” through the production of coutnernarratives that are, above all else, intended to interrogate and subvert the logic of multiple rationalities—legal, neoliberal, and scientific among others—and their role in reinforcing racism under the guise of integration, assimilation, colorblindness, and more recently post-racialism. To this end, counterstorytelling is CRT’s modus operandi. Although the critical race movement has ushered counterstory center-stage over the past several years, it is important to note that critical race counterstorytelling has historically been fundamental political strategy in ongoing struggles over the relations of power, knowledge, and difference in the United States and beyond. In this article, the author situates the emergence of critical race counterstorytelling within the U.S. abolitionist movement and argues that it played a critical role in challenging the idea that rationality was the only and/or the best way to practice democracy for the common good. In so doing, critical race counterstorytelling catalyzes the first movement for social justice in the United States. Calling on this history acts as a reminder of the revolutionary potential of critical race counterstorytelling as political strategy in current era of post-racialism. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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