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Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.
Winner of the 2006 Nancy Dasher Award for Best Book on Professional and Pedagogical Issues
In recent decades, the concepts of race, gender, and culture have come to function as "calling cards," the terms by which we announce ourselves as professionals and negotiate acceptance and/or rejection in the academic marketplace. In this volume, contributors from composition, literature, rhetoric, literacy, and cultural studies share their experiences and insights as researchers, scholars, and teachers who centralize these concepts in their work. Reflecting deliberately on their own research and classroom practices, the contributors share theoretical frameworks, processes, and methodologies; consider the quality of the knowledge and the understanding that their theoretical approaches generate; and address various challenges related to what it actually means to perform this type of work both professionally and personally, especially in light of the ways in which we are all raced, gendered, and acculturated.
Preface
Introduction: Marking Trails in Studies of Race, Gender, and Culture
Jacqueline Jones Royster
Part I: Rethinking Race, Whiteness, Gender, and Class
1. The More Things Change, Or, Why I Teach Whiteness
Valerie Babb
2. Bombs and Bullshit: Interventions in a Very Dangerous Time
Renee M. Moreno
3. Transforming Images: The Scholarship of American Indian Women
Susan Applegate Krouse
4. Men as Cautious Feminists: Reading, Responding, Role-Modeling as a Man
Patrick Bizzaro
5. Guns, Language, and Beer: Hunting for a Working-Class Language in the Academy
Ann E. Green
Part II: Re-Figuring Culture, History, and Methodology
6. Smarts: A Cautionary Tale
Valerie Lee
7. Naming and Proclaiming the Self: Black Feminist Literary History Making
Joycelyn Moody
8. Speaking With and To Me: Discursive Positioning and the Unstable Categories of Race, Class, and Gender
Jami L. Carlacio
9. Questioning Our Methodological Metaphors
Barbara E. L'Eplattenier
10. Pretenders on the Throne: Gender, Race, and Authority in the Composition Classroom
Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar
11. Veiled Wor(l)ds: The Postcolonial Feminist and the Question of Where
Akhila Ramnarayan
12. The Paradigm of Margaret Cavendish: Reading Women's Alternative Rhetorics in a Global Context
Hui Wu
13. "Making this Country Great": Native American Educational Sovereignty in North Carolina
Resa Crane Bizzaro
Part III: (Re)Forming Analytical Paradigms
14. Say What?: Rediscovering Hugh Blair and the Racialization of Language, Culture, and Pedagogy in Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric
David G. Holmes
15. "By the Way, Where Did You Learn to Speak?": Black Sites of Rhetorical Education
Shirley Wilson Logan
16. Rhetorical Tradition(s) and the Reform Writing of Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Ann Marie Mann Simpkins
17. Toni Morrison and "Race Matters" Rhetoric: Reading Race and Whiteness in Visual Culture
Joyce Irene Middleton
Last Words
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index