Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies

New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy

Iris D. Ruiz, Raul Sanchez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

195 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-70773-7 (ISBN)

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This book brings together Latinx scholars in Rhetoric and Composition to discuss keywords that have been misused or appropriated by forces working against the interests of minority students. For example, in educational and political forums, rhetorics of identity and civil rights have been used to justify ideas and policies that reaffirm the myth of a normative US culture that is white, Eurocentric, and monolinguistically English. Such attempts amount to a project of neo-colonization, if we understand colonization to mean not only the taking of land but also the taking of culture, of which language is a crucial part. The editors introduce the concept of epistemic delinking and argue for its use in conceptualizing a kind of rhetorical and discursive decolonization, and contributors offer examples of this decolonization in action through detailed work on specific terms. Specifically, they draw on their training in rhetoric and on their own experiences as people of color to help reset the field's agenda. They also theorize new keywords to shed light on the great varieties of Latinx writing, rhetoric, and literacies that continue to emerge and circulate in the culture at large, in the hope that the field will feel more urgently the need to recognize, theorize, and teach the intersections of writing, pedagogy, and politics.

Iris D. Ruiz is Lecturer at the University of California, Merced, USA. She is the Co-Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Latin@ Caucus. Raul Sanchez is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida, USA. He has been a member of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Latin@ Caucus for over two decades.

Foreword
Introduction: Delinking
Part 1: Basics
1. Race

2. Literacy <
3. Citizen

Part II: Making Texts
4. History
5. Code Switching
6. WritingPart III: Self-(Re)Definitions
7. Pocho
8. Mestizaje
9. Exito (Success)
10. Chicana Feminism

Part IV: Political Rhetoric
11. Illegal

12. Mojado

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	4 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 195 p. 4 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
Schlagworte	African American Rhetoric • Chicano Composition • Composition • Composition Studies • Critical pedagogy • Ethnic Studies • Latin American Rhetorics • Latino/a History • Mexican American Studies • Mexican Rhetorics • Normal School History • Pedagogy • rhetoric
ISBN-10	1-349-70773-2 / 1349707732
ISBN-13	978-1-349-70773-7 / 9781349707737
Zustand	Neuware