Register here for a chat with Dr. Erec Smith on Wednesday, 10/12, at 3pm ET.
Erec Smith is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania. He is a co-founder of Free Black Thought and a co-editor of the Journal of Free Black Thought. His scholarly and extra-scholarly research focuses on the rhetorics of anti-racist activism, theory, and pedagogy. He is a Writing Fellow for Heterodox Academy, a Senior Fellow for the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR), and an advisor for Counterweight, an organization that advocates for classical liberal concepts of social justice. His book, A Critique of Anti-racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment, appeared in 2019, and his book, The Lure of Disempowerment: Reclaiming Agency in the Age of CRT, appeared in 2022. Follow him and Free Black Thought on Twitter.