{"product_id":"refiguring-rhetorical-education-jessica-enoch-9780809328352","title":"Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano\/A Students, 1865-1911","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano\/a Students, 1865-1911 \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the work of five female teachers who challenged gendered and cultural expectations to create teaching practices that met the civic and cultural needs of their students. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume analyzes Lydia Maria Child's \u003ci\u003eThe Freedmen's Book, \u003c\/i\u003e a post-Civil War educational textbook for newly freed slaves; Zitkala Sa's autobiographical essays published in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e in 1900 that questioned the work of off-reservation boarding schools for Native American students; and Jovita Idar, Marta Peña, and Leonor Villegas de Magnón's contributions to the Spanish-language newspaper \u003ci\u003eLa Crónica\u003c\/i\u003e in 1910 and 1911--contributions that offered language and cultural instruction their readers could not receive in Texas public schools. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Jessica Enoch explores the possibilities and limitations of rhetorical education by focusing on the challenges that Child, Zitkala Sa, Idar, Peña, and Villegas made to dominant educational practices. Each of these teachers transformed their seemingly apolitical occupation into a site of resistance, revising debilitating educational methods to advance culture-based and politicized teachings that empowered their students to rise above their subjugated positions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefiguring Rhetorical Education\u003c\/i\u003e considers how race, culture, power, and language are both implicit and explicit in discussions of rhetorical education for marginalized students and includes six major tenets to guide present-day pedagogies for civic engagement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Enoch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809328356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809328352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.57d","brand":"Jessica Enoch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086901358847,"sku":"9780809328352","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5676ed93-7833-42b1-9bd2-3e2417b22d16.jpg?v=1769097219","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/refiguring-rhetorical-education-jessica-enoch-9780809328352","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}