Authoring a different story about advocacy and public intellectualism

Dominant stories about public intellectualism tend to erase academics of racially minoritized and marginalized backgrounds as well appointed outside research universities. This chapter makes sense these erasures considers their associated costs by applying the lenses critical race theory (CRT) epistemic injustice. Ultimately, this attempts broaden academy's view intellectualism, making visible work that so many have been doing for long which includes fierce acts advocacy community uplift.