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Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy
Iris D. Ruiz (Ed.)
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Description for Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy
Hardback. Editor(s): Ruiz, Iris D.; Sanchez, Raul. Num Pages: 195 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; CFB; CFF; CFGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137527233
SKU
V9781137527233
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About Iris D. Ruiz (Ed.)
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 ... Read more
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