Peer-Reviewed Article Conferencing toward Racial Literacies from the Post-White Orientation
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The 2021 Thomas R. Watson Conference theme was “Toward the Antiracist Conference: Reckoning with the Past, Reimagining the Present.” As an invited expert, I presented a workshop that challenged Watson Conference participants to racially reorient themselves, personally and professionally, toward the Post-White Orientation as well as post-White conference design. Likewise, in this 2022 special issue of Writers: Craft and Context, this article urges readers to begin identifying and disrupting antihuman racial orientations and practices in themselves as well as conference designs. Such race reorientation work should use practice of race theory (PRT) to explicitly engage in healthier ways of thinking and doing race (i.e. developing and practicing racial literacies).
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