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ENGL 225Introduction to Anti-Racist Communication

Units
0.50
Faculty
Arts
Subject
English
Cross-listed
BLKST 203, COMMST 203

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 3 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

This course surveys the rhetorical strategies of both more recent and historical civil rights and anti-racist activists. Students will use Black rhetorical theory and will examine work by international historical figures such as Franz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Albert Memmi, and Mohandas Gandhi, Frederick Douglas, WEB Dubois, Martin Luther King, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Fred Hampton, Robert Hill, and Walter Rodney and such recent figures as Kimberle Crenshaw, Robyn Maynard, Brittney Cooper, Desmond Cole, Feminista Jones, Rinaldo Walcott, and Idil Abdillahi. The objective for students is to understand the evolution of liberatory, anti-racist rhetoric and the rhetorical successes and failures of key anti-racist activists.

Prerequisites

Antirequisites

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Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

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  • Don't take this course if you haven't been marginalized or racially discriminated against in the past. I chose to take this course to expand my understanding and respect for those who experience racist communication, but unfortunately all of the course content was based around having experience with racism and one's family history relating to this. I had to BS a final project because as a white individual from a small Ontario town, I don't have any experiences with racism.

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