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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789978103321

Autore

Condon Frankie

Titolo

I hope I join the band : narrative, affiliation, and antiracist rhetoric / / Frankie Condon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan : , : Utah State University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-280-12587-X

9786613529732

0-87421-877-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 pages)

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Anti-racism

Rhetoric - Social aspects

Racism

Racism in literature

Racism - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Publisher varies: JSTOR, University of Colorado.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Chattering with Angels; 3. Wrestling with Angels; 4. Angels before Thee; 5. An Open Door for Elijah; 6. After the Fire, a Still Small Voice; Afterword; References; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

""Both from the Right and from the Left, we are stymied in talking well with one another about race and racism, by intransigent beliefs in our own goodness as well as by our conviction that such talk is useless. . . . White antiracist epistemology needs to begin not with our beliefs, but with our individual and collective awakening to that which we do not know.""Drawing on scholarship across disciplines ranging from writing and rhetoric studies to critical race theory to philosophy, I Hope I Join the Band examines the limits and the possibilities for performative engageme