Perspectives on Writing series
Copublished with the WAC Clearinghouse
“The works that these research approaches produce can model to our students that their own lived experiences can likewise be fruitful grounds for scholarly work that can make social change.”
—Teaching English in the Two-Year College
“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
Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods explores 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 coauthored 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.
This book is also available as an open access ebook through the WAC Clearinghouse.