Creator Bio
Kat Oak is a Metro Detroit-based writer, artist, and student who loves multimodal composition and exploring how literacy might be reimagined to be more representative and inclusive across the cultural spectrum.
Origin
This website was created as a digital writing project for the Contemporary Issues in Writing and Rhetoric course at Oakland University.
Purpose
The primary goal of this site is to inspire curiosity amongst white folks to take up the study and work of antiracism. This work is critical and necessary for us to all live within a more equitable society. We cannot expect people of color to do this work for us.
Sources
This site was inspired by Asao B. Inoue’s scholarship in general, but specifically by his paper Teaching Antiracist Reading. I emphasized Inoue’s approach by relating it to Kenneth Burke’s theory of terministic screens. Additionally, my perspective on race in America has been shaped by the work of Ibram X. Kendi and Ijeoma Oluo and the seminal creative and anthropological works of Zora Neale Hurston.
Future
My goal is to expand the resources, tools, and information available here and provide more guidance on how white folks can get involved with antiracist work.