Category Archives: English 584 Rhetoric Writing and Identity (Fall 2008)

Alexander on flattening difference and form

Jonathan Alexander’s the CCCC blog is a great reflection on the ways in which readers and writers “flatten difference.” While teaching Judd Winick’s graphic novel Pedro and Me I became concerned about what my students were taking away from their … Continue reading

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584: Weekly Position Paper #3: Where Are Transformative Collective Identity Movements?

In “Transformation vs. Resistance Identity Projects: Epistemological Resources for Social Justice Movements,” Sandra Harding builds on Manual Castells’ theory of a Net society and his three types of collective identity in order to theorize the import of standpoint theory in … Continue reading

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584: Weekly Position Paper #2: The Scholar as Public Intellectual

One central issue that recurs throughout the collection Calling Cards is the issue of navigating multiple discourse communities — middle class professoriate, working class white communities, African American communities that are distrustful of edumacation, and more. While the authors of … Continue reading

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