Counterstory, 2nd Edition - (CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric) by Aja Y Martinez (Paperback)

About the Book

The first edition of Counterstory was award-winning and pathbreaking. In 2020, mere months before President Trump's executive order banned critical race theory (CRT) nationally, Aja Y. Martinez made a case for counterstory as a central methodology of CRT. This second edition of Counterstory confirms Martinez's argument by engaging in new research from the archive of CRT founder Derrick Bell. It establishes CRT's foundational method as an essential tool for marginalized voices and features a new foreword and afterword, a post-2020 prologue and epilogue by the author, revised appendixes with lesson plans and syllabi, undergraduate student counterstory examples, and more. Martinez provides instructional and inspirational examples of how CRT theories and methods can inform teaching, research, and writing in challenging times.

Book Synopsis

The first edition of Counterstory was award-winning and pathbreaking. In 2020, mere months before President Trump's executive order banned critical race theory (CRT) nationally, Aja Y. Martinez made a case for counterstory as a central methodology of CRT. This second edition of Counterstory confirms Martinez's argument by engaging in new research from the archive of CRT founder Derrick Bell.

In this edition, CRT's foundational method is established as an essential tool for marginalized voices. It features a new foreword and afterword (respectively) by CRT luminaries Daniel G. Solórzano and Jean Stefancic, a post-2020 prologue and epilogue by the author, revised appendixes with lesson plans and syllabi, undergraduate student counterstory examples, and more.

Martinez provides instructional and inspirational examples of how CRT theories and methods can inform teaching, research, and writing in challenging times.

CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric Series.

About the Author

Aja Y. Martinez is an associate professor of Latina/Latino studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a distinguished author, known for her multi-award-winning book Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory. As a critical race theorist and storyteller, her work resonates with both public and academic audiences, bridging critical conversations on race and writing. In collaboration with Robert O. Smith, Martinez coauthored The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas That Created a Movement, further contributing to the discourse on this vital subject. Martinez is a coeditor and cofounder, alongside Michele Eodice and Sandra Tarabochia, of the journal Writers: Craft and Context, which supports the exploration of diverse topics and writing genres. Additionally, she coedits the University of Pittsburgh Press's series Composition, Literacy, and Culture with Stacey Waite, amplifying the voices of scholars and practitioners in the field of writing, rhetoric, and composition studies.