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In Making the World a Better Place, Royster argues that African
American women must be taken seriously as historical actors who
were more consistently and more variously engaged in community -
and nation-building than they have been given credit for. Their
considerable rhetorical expertise becomes evident when looking
carefully at their work in terms of identity, agency, authority,
and expressiveness. Their writings constitute a substantial
artifactual record of their levels of engagement, their excellence
in sociopolitical work, and the legacies of leadership and action.
The writing of African American women during the nineteenth century
reflects their own perceptions of the ways and means of their
lives. They deserve to be recognized as consequential contributors
to the narratives of the nation, rather than marginalized as a
group. To that end, Jacqueline Jones Royster offers a deeper
understanding, often through their own words, of these women, their
practices, and their achievements.
Occupying Our Space sheds new light on the contributions of Mexican
women journalists and writers during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, marked as the zenith of Mexican journalism.
Journalists played a significant role in transforming Mexican
social and political life before and after the Revolution
(1910-1920), and women were a part of this movement as publishers,
writers, public speakers, and political activists. However, their
contributions to the broad historical changes associated with the
Revolution, as well as the pre- and post-revolutionary eras, are
often excluded or overlooked. Occupying our Space: The Mestiza
Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists, 1875-1942, fills a gap in
feminine rhetorical history by providing an in-depth look at
several important journalists who claimed rhetorical puestos, or
public speaking spaces. This book closely examines the writings of
Laureana Wright de Kleinhans (1842-1896), Juana Belen Gutierrez de
Mendoza (1875--1942), the political group Las mujeres de Zitacuaro
(1900), Hermila Galindo (1896-1954), and others. Grounded in the
overarching theoretical lens of mestiza rhetoric, Occupying Our
Space considers the ways in which Mexican women journalists
negotiated shifting feminine identities and the emerging national
politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With
full length Spanish primary documents along with their
translations, this scholarship reframes the conversation about the
rhetorical and intellectual role women played in the ever-changing
political and identity culture in Mexico.
This book builds on the authors' highly acclaimed first
collaboration, Understanding English Language Variation in US
Schools, and examines the need to integrate linguistically informed
teaching into the secondary English classroom. It includes specific
information about the language varieties students bring with them
to school so that educators can better assist students in
developing the literacy skills necessary for the Common Core State
Standards. This resource features concrete strategies, models, and
vignettes, as well as classroom materials developed by English
educators for English educators.
"Traces of a Stream" offers a unique scholarly perspective that
merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States
social and political theory, and African American women writers.
Focusing on elite nineteenth-century African American women who
formed a new class of women well positioned to use language with
consequence, Royster uses interdisciplinary perspectives
(literature, history, feminist studies, African American studies,
psychology, art, sociology, economics) to present a well-textured
rhetorical analysis of the literate practices of these women. With
a shift in educational opportunity after the Civil War, African
American women gained access to higher education and received
formal training in rhetoric and writing. By the end of the
nineteenth-century, significant numbers of African American women
operated actively in many public arenas.
In her study, Royster acknowledges the persistence of disempowering
forces in the lives of African American women and their equal
perseverance against these forces. Amid these conditions, Royster
views the acquisition of literacy as a dynamic moment for African
American women, not only in terms of their use of written language
to satisfy their general needs for agency and authority, but also
to fulfill socio-political purposes as well.
"Traces of a Stream "is a showcase for nineteenth-century African
American women, and particularly elite women, as a group of writers
who are currently underrepresented in rhetorical scholarship.
Royster has formulated both an analytical theory and an ideological
perspectivethat are useful in gaining a more generative
understanding of literate practices as a whole and the practices of
African American women in particular. Royster tells a tale of
rhetorical prowess, calling for alternative ways of seeing,
reading, and rendering scholarship as she seeks to establish a more
suitable place for the contributions and achievements of African
American women writers.
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 this type of work
both professionally and personally, especially in light of the ways
in which we are all raced, gendered, and acculturated.
This exciting new 6-12 literature series provides bridges and
connections across ideas, strong skill instruction, and amazing
literature.
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