Browsing by Subject "critical race theory"

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    The Attack on Critical Race Theory and Higher Education: A Legal Analysis of the Impact of State Action on Faculty Free Speech
    (Peter Lang, 2022) Iftikar, Jon S.; Nguyễn, David Hòa Khoa; Byers, Tevin; School of Education
    In this article, the authors review proposed and passed state legislation that aim to ban Critical Race Theory and other social justice content from public higher education institutions. Using the law as the theoretical framework and legal analysis as the methodology, the authors examine these state actions, focusing on implications for higher education faculty speech and academic freedom. The authors discuss the history and current state of the law in the areas of free speech and academic freedom, including U.S. Supreme Court and other federal courts of appeal cases on how free speech in scholarship and teaching have been viewed. They also briefly discuss the legislation that states have proposed or passed which ban Critical Race Theory in higher education institutions, and end by discussing the implications such bans have on faculty free speech in scholarship and teaching. Overall, the authors detail the ways that these laws have a chilling and limiting effect on faculty speech, which in turn, have important consequences for students, institutions, and society as well.
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    Critical Intersections and Comic Possibilities: Extending Racialized Critical Rhetorical Scholarship
    (2010) Rossing, Jonathan P.
    Communication scholars conducting work on race must engage work from complementary critical communities to bolster their own critiques and further advance progressive racial coalitions. Critical, rhetorical scholarship and Critical Race Theory (CRT) share principle aims that provide significant ground for interdisciplinary racial projects. Together, these interrelated disciplines can find reinforcement in comedic discourse. This essay locates racial comedy as a space for transformational critiques. More specifically, the author argues that critical rhetorical scholarship and CRT taken jointly can illuminate parallel comic discourses and advance their important correctives pertaining to race and racism.
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    Critical Race Humor in a Postracial Moment: Richard Pryor’s Contemporary Parrhesia
    (Taylor and Francis, 2014-02) Rossing, Jonathan P.; Department of Communication Studies, School of Liberal Arts
    Racial truth-telling becomes a difficult project given the current sociopolitical context that privileges postracialism and neoliberal individualism. Critical race humor, however, remains a public and popular discourse where people not only speak but also engage powerful racial truths. This article presents critical race humor as a contemporary form of parrhesia, or frank and courageous criticism. As a critical practice, parrhesia resonates with tenets of critical race scholarship and critical communication scholarship. Using the truth-telling comedy of the late Richard Pryor as a case study, this article suggests that critical race humor could be understood as parrhesia for our time. Moreover, critical race humor as a form of public pedagogy might provide people with the skills and habits of thought necessary to think critically about and transform racial knowledge and reality.