Symposium: Diversity is not Enough: Mentorship and Community-Building as Antiracist Praxis

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Suggested Readings

While I offer this list of suggested readings, I want to also acknowledge the need for additional scholarship composed by graduate students that reflect their lived experiences. The suggested readings I’ve listed here are geared more to mentors and other individuals in positions of power.

Notes

1. This article was composed from an invited talk given at Bowie State University.

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Notes on contributors

Ersula Ore

Ersula J. Ore is an Associate Professor of African & African Studies and Lincoln Professor of Ethics. She is a critical race rhetorician whose research includes rhetorics of racialized violence, citizenship and belonging; critical race and gender studies; and Black women’s intellectual history. She is the author of Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, & American Identity (RSA 2020 Book Award). Ersula’s most recent publications can be found in Women’s Studies in Communication, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, Present Tense, and other journals and edited collections including Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education.

Kim Wieser

Kimberly Wieser is Associate Chair and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma as well as affiliated Native Studies faculty. Her book Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies was published by OU Press in 2017. Wieser is one of the co-chairs for American Indian Caucus for NCTE/CCCC and serves as a Managing Editor at Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space.

Christina V. Cedillo

Christina V. Cedillo is Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Her/their research draws from cultural rhetorics and decolonial theory to focus on embodied rhetorics and rhetorics of embodiment at the intersections of race, gender, and disability. Christina’s current project examines the multimodal rhetorics of 20th and 21st century women of color activists. Her/their work has appeared in CCC, RSQ, Composition Forum, and other journals and various edited collections.