Foolery, Refusal and Possibility: On Labor Relationalities at Predominantly White Institutions

Authors

Yanira Rodríguez
Sophia Sunshine Vilceus
Laquana Cooke
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez, West Chester University of PennsylvaniaFollow
Sherri Craig
Jason Vanfosson
Timothy R. Dougherty, West Chester University of PennsylvaniaFollow
Ben Kuebrich
Michael Burns

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2021

Abstract

Through a three-act play, a series of skits, painting, collaging, linocut prints, remixing and other making practices, this multi-modal, multi-genre analysis addresses the necessity to develop an ethos of refusal in the academy and field.

Refusal offers a turn away from the white supremacist toxic relationalities that capitalize on Black Indigenous People of Color’s labor. These relationalities simultaneously render BIPOC bodies hypervisible as tokens of diversity and brokers of assimilation while invisibilizing their labor, its value and the duress and constraints under which it is performed.

Publication Title

The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics

ISSN

2472-7318

Volume

4

Issue

2

Recommended Citation

Rodríguez, Y., Vilceus, S. S., Cooke, L., Aguiló-Pérez, E. R., Craig, S., Vanfosson, J., Dougherty, T. R., Kuebrich, B., & Burns, M. (2021). Foolery, Refusal and Possibility: On Labor Relationalities at Predominantly White Institutions. The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 4(2) Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/eng_facpub/70