Dr Erec Smith is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania. Although he has eclectic scholarly interests, Dr Smith’s primary focus is on the rhetorics of anti-racist activism, theory, and pedagogy. He is a co-founder of Free Black Thought, a website dedicated to highlighting viewpoint diversity within the black intelligentsia. Dr Smith is a Writing Fellow for Heterodox Academy, a Senior Fellow for the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism and an advisor for Counterweight, an organization that advocates for classical liberal concepts of social justice. In his latest book, A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment, Dr Smith addresses the detriments of anti-racist rhetoric and writing pedagogy based on current manifestations of social justice.Links.......BookA Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment Twitter: @Rhetors_of_York www.freeblackthought.comAudio and videoA Critique of Anti-Racism in Rhetoric and CompositionA Rhetoric of Common ValuesCounterweight Connects with Erec SmithMusic: Kyrie from Bach B Minor Mass conducted by Sir John Eliot GardinerBuy it here: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/mass-in-b-minor-bwv-232-cum-sancto-spiritu/1053521016

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