Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791463761 ISBN 13: 9780791463765

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2005

Synopsis

Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.

Winner of the 2006 Nancy Dasher Award for Best Book on Professional and Pedagogical Issues

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 and personally, especially in light of the ways in which we are all raced, gendered, and acculturated.

About this title

About the Author

At The Ohio State University at Columbus, Jacqueline Jones Royster is Professor of English and Ann Marie Mann Simpkins is Assistant Professor of English. Royster is the author of Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African American Women and Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791463761
• ISBN 13: 9780791463765
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318
• Editor: Royster Jacqueline Jones, Simpkins Ann Marie Mann