Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/As and Other Ethnic Minorities: A Critical History and Pedagogy

ISBN-13: 9781137536723 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 227 str.

Iris D. Ruiz

Opis

This book examines the history of ethnic minorities--particularly Chicano/as and Latino/as--in the field of composition and rhetoric; the connections between composition and major US historical movements toward inclusiveness in education; the ways our histories of that inclusiveness have overlooked Chicano/as; and how this history can inform the teaching of composition and writing to Chicano/a and Latino/a students in the present day. Bridging the gap between Ethnic Studies, Critical History, and Composition Studies, Ruiz creates a new model of the practice of critical historiography and shows how that can be developed into a critical writing pedagogy for students who live in an increasingly multicultural, multilingual society.

Spis treści

1. Post Structuralism, Historical Theory and Critical Race Theory: A Pyramid for Critical Historical Analysis  

2. Introduction to the Field of Composition: Politics from the Start

3. A History Untold: Composition’s Connected Past to the Educational Reforms of the Reconstructive Era

4. Chicanos and African-Americans: In/Visibility in Composition

5. The Second Reconstruction: The Civil Rights Era and Composition’s Response to the New “Egalitarian” University

6. Multiculturalism’s Conflict: A Nation’s Quest for Accommodation and Excellence in Education

7. Historiography in the Writing Classroom: A Case for Teaching Chicano/Chicana-Latino/Latina history

8. Guatemala as a Site for Critical Historiography

9. Conclusion

O autorze

Iris D. Ruiz is Lecturer at the University of California, Merced, USA. She is also the Co-Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Latino/a Caucus.