In this study of the history of rhetoric education, Susan Kates focuses on the writing and speaking instruction developed at three academic institutions founded to serve three groups of students most often excluded from traditional institutions of higher education in late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century America: white middle-class women, African Americans, and members of the working class. Kates provides a detailed look at the work of those students and teachers ostracized from rhetorical study at traditional colleges and universities. She explores the pedagogies of educators Mary Augusta Jordan of Smith College in Northhampton, Massachusetts; Hallie Quinn Brown of Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio; and Josephine Colby, Helen Norton, and Louise Budenz of Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York. These teachers sought to enact forms of writing and speaking instruction incorporating social and political concerns in the very essence of their pedagogies. They designed rhetoric courses characterized by three important pedagogical features: a profound respect for and awareness of the relationship between language and identity and a desire to integrate this awareness into the curriculum; politicized writing and speaking assignments designed to help students interrogate their marginalized standing within the larger culture in terms of their gender, race, or social class; and an emphasis on service and social responsibility.
In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges these one-dimensional characterizations by exploring—and celebrating—the lives of contemporary Oklahoma women whose experiences are anything but predictable.
Farnsworth , Robert M. Melvin B. Tolson , 1898-1966 : Plain Talk and Poetic Prophecy . Columbia : U of Missouri P , 1984 . Ferreira - Buckley , Linda . “ Rescuing the Archives from Foucault . ” College English 61.5 ( May 1999 ) : 577–83 ...
In the revised edition of The Present State of Scholarship in Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric (Horner, 1990a), Donald Stewart appropriates categories from 18th-century scholarship to discuss 19thcentury rhetoric.
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Pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing’s physical, social, and discursive ...
Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece. Austin: University of Texas Press, ... FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability. College Station: Texas A&M ... Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education, 1885–1937.
Letter Received by Mary Stuart (Robertson) Beard (1910) Mary Stuart Robertson preserved in her scrapbook this note she received from her friend Eleanor. This note from the early years of the twentieth century re- flects the ways in ...
To be fair, it should not come as a surprise that concerns about literacy remain implicit orientations for Russell's and Connors's studies. Neither author sets out to address this aspect of the “Great Debate” specifically.
9 Charles Paine, The Resistant Writer: Rhetoric as Immunity, 1850 to the Present (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999); Susan Kates, Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education, 1885–1937 (Carbondale: Southern ...
Policing the Continental Army Harry M. Ward. V / Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education 1885-1937 ActIvIst RhetorIcs and American HIgher EducatIon 1885-1937 Susan Kates Southern.