ERIC Number: EJ1080529
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 20
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Gloria AnzaldĂșa's Rhetoric of Ambiguity and Antiracist Teaching
Klotz, Sarah; Whithaus, Carl
Composition Studies, v43 n2 p72-91 Fall 2015
This article addresses approaches to antiracist pedagogy employed in a rhetoric course at a large public research university. Drawing upon our experience teaching a diverse group of students from a common text shared across disciplines, we show how and why students resisted binary constructions of race and racism and instead formulated an emergent rhetoric of ambiguity to voice and write about their experiences with race in the twenty-first century.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Racial Bias, Research Universities, Race, Ambiguity (Semantics), Rhetoric, Ethnic Groups, Cultural Pluralism, Multilingualism, Critical Theory, Problem Based Learning, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students, Humanities, Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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