Calling Cards

Jacqueline Jones Royster And Ann Marie Mann Simpkins - Editors

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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

Sujets

• Ethnic studies
• Discourse analysis
• Stylistics
• Semantics
• Gender studies

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791483664
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Calling Cards

Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture

Edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins

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Calling cards : theory and practice in the study of race, gender, and culture / edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins. p. c.m. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-6375-3 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-6376-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Rhetoric—Social aspects. I. Royster, Jacqueline Jones. II. Simpkins, Ann Marie, Mann

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List of Illustrations

Preface

Contents

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

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

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

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Part II: Refiguring Culture, History, and Methodology

Smarts: A Cautionary Tale Valerie Lee

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Naming and Proclaiming the Self: Black Feminist Literary History Making Joycelyn Moody

Speaking With and To Me: Discursive Positioning and the Unstable Categories of Race, Class, and Gender Jami L. Carlacio

Questioning Our Methodological Metaphors Barbara E. L’Eplattenier

Pretenders on the Throne: Gender, Race, and Authority in the Composition Classroom Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar

Veiled Wor(l)ds: The Postcolonial Feminist and the Question of Where Akhila Ramnarayan

The Paradigm of Margaret Cavendish: Reading Women’s Alternative Rhetorics in a Global Context Hui Wu

“Making this Country Great”: Native American Educational Sovereignty in North Carolina Resa Crane Bizzaro

Part III: (Re)Forming Analytical Paradigms

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Say What?: Rediscovering Hugh Blair and the Racialization of Language, Culture, and Pedagogy in Eighteenth-Century Rhetoric 203 David G. Holmes

“By the Way, Where Did You Learn to Speak?”: Black Sites of Rhetorical Education Shirley Wilson Logan

Rhetorical Tradition(s) and the Reform Writing of Mary Ann Shadd Cary Ann Marie Mann Simpkins

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Toni Morrison and “Race Matters” Rhetoric: Reading Race and Whiteness in Visual Culture Joyce Irene Middleton

Last Words

Works Cited

List of Contributors

Index

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Illustrations

“Indians Gambling for the Possession of a Captive”

Title page,The Narrative and Confession of Thomas Powers

Coin purse showing Columbus’s American landing

“Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner”

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Preface

In the nineteenth century in both Europe and the United States, there was a firmly established and highly developed social ritual of presenting oneself to others within elite social circles by means of a small, often elegantly decorated, card. Calling cards, as they came to be called, became a primary instrument by which social overtures were made, invitations were extended, and social acceptance (or rejection) in these circles was negotiated. This tradition harkened back to an earlier habit in the eighteenth century of the use of cards by tradesmen to advertise their wares and services, and it resonates today with our contemporary use of business cards and now web pages for both social and profes- sional purposes. We chose the image of “calling cards” as an appropriate symbol in the academic arena to suggest the ways and means by which profes- sional roles and identities are encoded and symbolically deployed in the negotiation of acceptance (or rejection) in the academic world as well. In textual studies (rhetoric, literacy, composition, literature, etc.), as the focus of this publication, race, gender, and culture have become for many of us the “cards” by which we have participated more boldly than ever before in the social and political processes of academe. Using such terms, we have entered disciplinary discourses and engaged ac- tively in research, scholarship, and teaching. In both the making and transmission of knowledge, race, gender, and culture have animated a critical questioning of agency, identity, and authority, and brought at- tention to the workings across time of power, privilege, and entitlement in many of our professional enterprises, including the operational sys- tems of the academy itself. The body of scholarship shaped by such focal points continues to grow, invigorating multiple discourses and generating strategies for using this enhanced knowledge base to ad- dress complex contemporary issues. Such efforts have pushed and indeed shifted the boundaries of place and purpose, reframing, often provocatively, what we can do in

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