From style and genre to identity, politics, and pedagogy, America is characterized by a citizenry with multiple perspectives speaking and writing in multiple voices. Rhetoric and Ethnicity foregrounds the complexity of American culture and asks a series of basic questions:
- How might ethnic rhetorics function as generative sites of difference?
- How might ethnic rhetorics shape composition instruction?
- How do they relate to the rhetorical tradition, classical and contemporary?
- How can we both celebrate and critique regional, racial, and gender alternatives that exist along the broad linguistic spectrum within our daily lives as teachers of English?
- How can ethnic rhetorics influence the purposes and modes that comprise the American rhetorical tradition?
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