In this course we will study essays, speeches, and articles written by Black, Indigenous, and other writers of colour as well as a few white anti-racist writers about race and racism in both Canada and the U.S. We will examine the array of rhetorical moves made in such writing and how writers shift and adapt rhetorically to speak to particular historical moments in the long duree of racism in both nations. You will have the opportunity to draft, workshop, revise, and finalize a significant writing project as an integral part of this course. However, we will not be composing in traditional academic prose but exploring the creative and rhetorical crafts of counterstory and narrative that are the hallmark of anti-racist composition. Your assigned readings will provide you with models for the kind of writing you may choose to do for this class and our discussions of those readings will help you discern how to do that writing well.