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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819315103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005
• ISBN: 0-7914-8366-5; 1-4237-4388-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xiii, 303 p. : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): RoysterJacqueline Jones; SimpkinsAnn Marie Mann <1962->
• Disciplina: 808
• Soggetti: Rhetoric - Social aspects; Authorship - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- S -- T -- U -- V.; W.
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.