Image from Every Dot a Prayer Christi Belcourt
Readings for Cultural Rhetorics
Readings for Week 2
January 23
January 23
| half_and_half.pdf |
| erdrich.pdf |
Ted Talk: Don't Ask Me Where I'm From; Ask Where I'm a Local (Click on title for link)
Of interest (not required). Anzaldua's chapters from Borderlands/La Frontera are powerful examples of cultural rhetorics. Harro's "Cycles" were mentioned in class and provide information on social locations.
| cycle_of_socialization_bobbi_harro_reading.doc |
| cycle_of_liberation.pdf |
January 25
| rhetorical_powwows.pdf |
The link below provides the slides to accompany "Rhetorical Powwows"
| powell_purduehuttonslides.ppt |
| al_chapter_3_artifacts_talk_listening.pdf |
Readings for Week 3-- Share Rough Drafts of Cultural Autobiographies
January 30
January 30
| constellating_cultural_rhetorics.pdf |
| interfacing-cultural-rhetorics-a-history-and-a-call.pdf.pdf |
February 1
| constructingrhetoricalborders.pdf |
| how_cultural_rhetorics_can_change_the_conversation__towards_new_c.pdf |
WEEK 4--Begin Found Rhetorics Presentations (schedule below)
February 6
February 6
| engl_325_found_rhetorics_presentations.docx |
| villanueva_rhetorics_of_racism.pdf |
| brutal_imagination.pdf |
Below are some resources from the Susan Smith Case to help contextualize the 1994 case:
| susan_smith_resources.pdf |
| more_susan_smith_resources.pdf |
| eady_resources.docx |
February 8
| we_been_knowin-_toward_an_antiracist_language_______literacy_education.pdf |
WEEK 5
February 13--classes cancelled due to snowstorm
February 13--classes cancelled due to snowstorm
February 15
Bring a copy of your cultural autobiography draft to discuss in class
| rhetorical_bodiesintro.pdf |
| crowley_rhetorical_bodies_afterword.pdf |
| women_makeup_and_authenticity.pdf |
WEEK 6
February 20
February 20
| levycs_2012_bodies_presentation1.doc |
| the_body_an_abstract_and_actual_rhetoric__cedillo_2018_.pdf |
February 22 APOLOGIES AS I AM OUT SICK TODAY. PLEASE CONTINUE WITH THE READINGS AS SCHEDULED AND WE WILL DISCUSS ALL ON TUESDAY 2/27
| carole_blair_memorials.pdf |
| contesting_commemorative_landscapes__confederate_statues__2021.pdf |
The article below is also useful to discuss place and space as rhetorical. Read it if you can (not required)
| wright_cemetary_as_rhetorical_memory_place_space.pdf |
WEEK 7
February 27
February 27
| quilt_material_rhetoric_liz_rohan.pdf |
| everyday_use.doc |
February 29
| visual_folk_art.pdf |
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WEEK 8 SPRING BREAK
Enjoy and be safe |
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WEEK 9
WEEK 12--NOTE THE LOCATION HAS CHANGED TO MOAKLEY!!!!! Today we will meet in the MOAKLEY Auditorium for the Bartlett Lecture: The Bartlett Lecture for Spring 2024 will be given by Dr. Erec Smith, Associate Professor of Rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania. His talk, “Anti-Racist Education is Anti-Everything Except Racism,” will be Tuesday, March 12th, 12:15-1:45, in the Moakley Auditorium. Professor Smith’s work focuses on the rhetorics of anti‐racist activism, theory, and pedagogy, as well as the role of rhetoric in a free, pluralistic, and civil society. He has also published on rhetoric in Buddhist philosophy. Professor Smith is a co‐founder of Free Black Thought, a nonprofit dedicated to highlighting viewpoint diversity within the black communities. Free Black Thought includes a compendium of black artists, writers, academics, and public intellectuals not discussed in mainstream media. The organization also has a Journal of Free Black Thought, that publishes anything–from poetry to scholarly work—that discusses or displays a variety of viewpoints within the black diaspora. Professor Smith is the author of A Critique of Anti‐Racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment (2020), a book in which he scrutinizes contemporary modes of anti‐racism in his field. The book was conceived after Smith’s observations of his field led him to conclude that anti‐racist initiatives did more to disempower students and faculty than empower them. There will be a reception following the talk. |
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March 14
Read the introduction to the CCC journal, and then choose one additional article to read and respond to:
Read the introduction to the CCC journal, and then choose one additional article to read and respond to:
| ccc_volume_75_issue_1_college_composition_and_communication_vol._75_no._1_september_2023_[full_issue_pdf].v1__1_.pdf |
WEEK 10
March 19
Below are excerpts from Becoming Kin please read and respond. We will hear the author speak on Thursday
March 19
Below are excerpts from Becoming Kin please read and respond. We will hear the author speak on Thursday
| becoming_kin.pdf |
MARCH 21--Meet in Dunn A (Under Crimson) on east campus to hear Patty Krawec author of Becoming Kin
WEEK 11
| cultural_rhetorics_final_researched_project.docx |
March 26--today we will have a catch-up day. We will discuss the speaker from last Thursday, constellate some of the themes of the course, take one more look at your autobiographies, and discuss the final project.
March 28--can you believe it is the end of March?
March 28--can you believe it is the end of March?
| writing_s_potential_to_heal__women_writing_from_their_bodies__1_.pdf |
| cultural_rhetorics_final_researched_project.docx |
WEEK 12
April 2
April 2
| everything_you_need_to_eat__food_access_and_community__1_.pdf |
| research_justice_as_reciprocity__homegrown_research_methodologies__1_.pdf |
The article below explains a little about Community Literacy and Writing. It is not required for today.
| coalition_for_commuity_writing.pdf |
April 4
In preparation for our visit to the library archives next week:
| history_-_2021_-_dyer_-_state_of_the_field__material_culture.pdf |
WEEK 13
April 9--we will visit the BSU Archives today on the 3rd floor of Maxwell Library
April 11
April 11
| rereading_evelyn_cameron’s_photography_and_the_“exceptional_woman”_myth__2023_.pdf |
| bearing_witness__polar_bears_as_icons_for_climate_change_communication_in_national_geographic.pdf |
WEEK 14
April 16
April 16
| the_impact_of_tattoos_on_daily_experience.pdf |
| stories_on_the_skin.pdf |
April 18
| marvel_monsters_and_their_transition_into_the_superhero_genre.pdf |
WEEK 15
we will share final projects this week with 5-minute presentations and workshops
Additional and Supplementary Readings
| clifford_the_predicament_of_culture.pdf |
| arts_of_the_contact_zone.pdf |
| the_rhetorical_tradition.pdf |
| culture_and_truth_resaldo.pdf |
| to_be_of_use.docx |
Note: The Massachusett Algonkin documents have the English translation on the latter pages. There are two petitions here:
The Cherokee Phoenix: I thought it might be a companion to the Massachusett Algonkin documents:
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| the_things_they_carried.doc |
| craft_work_pop_culture_activism.pdf |
| womens_magazines_in_ecuador.pdf |
| cooke,_miriam_islamic_feminist_rehtorical_strategies.pdf |
| be_a_feminist_or_dress.pdf |
| dolmage_metis.pdf |
| dubois-tatoos_of_epimenides.pdf |
| chao_tattoos.pdf |
| vespucci_visual_rhetoric.pdf |
| wampum_as_hypertext.doc |
| driskill_poems.pdf |
| alexie_paragraph_like_a_fence.pdf |
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| chicana_culture_and_magazines.pdf |
| pedagogy_and_material_culture.pdf |
"Because Poems Lead Dangerous Lives: http://fourwindsmagazine.org/kimshuck/
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Final Project Examples--some of these are from different courses, but will give you a sense of the scope of the project
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