Telling Your Story as Counterstory: The Rhetoric of Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory (CRT), developed by legal scholars in the 1970s, proposes that marginalized folk use their own stories to reframe discussions about racism, particularly through a creative practice called counterstory. This course will take a deep dive into counterstory as a creative form of resistance and intercultural communication. Students will develop the skills to respond to a stock story with counterstory and participate in an online collective project. Students will also produce an e-portfolio.