Winner of Honorable Mention for the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt
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.