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.
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