Nov 1, 2021
Dr. Lisa M. Corrigan is a Professor of Communication and Director of the Gender Studies Program at the University of Arkansas. She has written two books, Prison Power: How Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) and Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). Her third book is an edited collection titled: #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist and it will be out in July 2021 published by Routledge.
Lisa also co-hosts a popular podcast with Laura Weiderhaft called Lean Back: Critical Feminist Conversations
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lean-back-critical-feminist-conversations/id1084242264
By listening to this conversation with Lisa, you’ll learn about:
- Antiblack public policy
- The fantasy of civility
- Communication about power and
freedom
- Collective struggle,
navigating conflict, and shared power
- Whiteness of the American
public speech tradition and how to increase inclusion
- Risk and the roots of speech
anxiety
- Persuasion and flexing
capital
- Black social protest and
violence
- Listening, empathy, and
cultural competency as tools of inclusion