Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods [Paperback]

Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methodsexplores multiple antiracist, decolonial forms of study that are relevant to 21st-century knowledge production about language, communication, technology, and culture. The book presents a rare collaboration among scholars representing different racial and ethnic backgrounds, genders, and ranks within the field of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies (RCWS). In each chapter, the authors examine the significance of their individual experiences with race and racism across contexts. Their research engages the politics of embodiment, institutional critique, multimodal rhetoric, materiality, and public digital literacies. The book merges impassioned storytelling with unflinching analysis, offering a multi-voiced argument that spotlights the field's troubled history with theorizing about race and epistemology. Although the authors directly address aspiring and current RCWS professionals, they model how a comprehensive consideration of race adds legitimacy and integrity to any subject of study. This co-authored work charts uncommon paths forward, demonstrating reflexive engagement with legacies that are personal and transnational, as well as with technologies that are both dehumanizing and liberating.“The multifaceted collection, which effectively argues for the need for antiracist methodology, is an immediately useful and imperative addition to RCWS literature on research methods.”
—Composition Forum

"Writing across race and gender, the authors acknowledge the importance of antiracist work while noting a need to explicitly develop ways of ethical engagement within the field and beyond."
— Rhetoric Review 

Alexandria Lockettis assistant professor of English at Spelman College. She is one of tlÃ!