Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory

Excerpted from manuscript reader reviews from leading journals in rhetoric and writing studies, these epigraphs publicly attest to widespread ignorance of scholars in our field who ask for justification for CRT methods that have been around for decades. By means of an email exchange between Prieto and her mentor V, we learn of several instances of racial violence that Prieto encounters in the classroom while teaching about decolonization, which gets us to crucial questions about the orientation of junior faculty to graduate teaching and how instructors of color continue to keep grinding in the face of continuing racial attacks from (often white male) students. Counterstory thus interrupts the status quo of rhetoric and writing studies theory to drive home the necessity for, and viability of, creative, narrative modes of analysis.