Writing against racial injury : the politics of Asian American student rhetoric /

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Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hoang, Haivan V. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
Series:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Subjects:
Student publications > California > History.
Student movements > California.
Asian Americans > Education (Higher) > Language arts.
Asian American college students > Political activity > California.
Publications scolaires > Californie > Histoire.
Mouvements étudiants > Californie.
EDUCATION > Higher.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Student movements
Student publications
California
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : literacy, race, and an American ethos
  • Asian American language and literacy rights in the 1970s
  • Language and racial injury in Lau v. Nichols
  • Gidra and the extracurriculum of Asian American publications
  • Asian American rhetorics against racial injury in the 2000s
  • Campus racial politics and a "rhetoric of injury"
  • Asian American rhetorical memory, a "memory that is only sometimes our own"
  • "I want a thicker accent": revisionary public texts
  • Afterword : writing against racial injury, writing to remember.

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