Calling cards : theory and practice in studies of race, gender, and culture / edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Royster, Jacqueline Jones.

Simpkins, Ann Marie Mann, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Rhetoric.

Authorship--Social aspects.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

xiii, 303 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.

Contents:

Intro

Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Marking Trails in Studies of Race, Gender, and Culture

Part I. Rethinking Race, Whiteness, Gender, and Class

1. The More Things Change . . .Or, Why I Teach Whiteness

2. Bombs and Bullshit: INTERVENTIONS IN A VERY DANGEROUS TIME

3. Transforming Images: THE SCHOLARSHIP OF AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN

4. Men as Cautious Feminists: READING, RESPONDING,ROLE-MODELING AS A MAN

5. Guns, Language, and Beer: HUNTING FOR A WORKING-CLASS LANGUAGE IN THE ACADEMY

Part II. Refiguring Culture, History, and Methodology

6. Smarts: A CAUTIONARY TALE

7. Naming and Proclaiming the Self: BLACK FEMINIST LITERARY HISTORY MAKING

8. Speaking With and To Me: DISCURSIVE POSITIONING AND THE UNSTABLE CATEGORIES OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER

9. Questioning Our Methodological Metaphors

10 .Pretenders on the Throne: GENDER, RACE, AND AUTHORITY IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM

11. Veiled Wor(l)ds: THE POSTCOLONIAL FEMINIST AND THE QUESTION OF WHERE

12. The Paradigm of MargaretCavendish: READING WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVE RHETORICS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

13. "Making This Country Great": NATIVE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

Part III. (Re)Forming Analytical Paradigms

14. Say What?: REDISCOVERING HUGH BLAIR AND THE RACIALIZATION OF LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND PEDAGOGY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RHETORIC

15. "By The Way, Where Did You Learn to Speak?": BLACK SITES OF RHETORICAL EDUCATION

16. Rhetorical Tradition(s) and the Reform Writing of Mary Ann Shadd Cary

17. Toni Morrison and "Race Matters" Rhetoric: READING RACE AND WHITENESS IN VISUAL CULTURE

Last Words

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

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T

U

V.

W.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.

ISBN:

9780791483664

0791483665

9781423743880

1423743881

OCLC:

794701282