Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/As and Other Ethnic Minorities: A Critical History and Pedagogy

Winner of Honorable Mention for the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award

This book examines the history of ethnic minorities particularly Chicano/as and Latino/as--in the field of composition and rhetoric; the connections between composition and major US historical movements toward inclusiveness in education; the ways our histories of that inclusiveness have overlooked Chicano/as; and how this history can inform the teaching of composition and writing to Chicano/a and Latino/a students in the present day. Bridging the gap between Ethnic Studies, Critical History, and Composition Studies, Ruiz creates a new model of the practice of critical historiography and shows how that can be developed into a critical writing pedagogy for students who live in an increasingly multicultural, multilingual society.

Author: Iris D. Ruiz
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/16/2016
Pages: 227
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781137536723

About the Author

Iris D. Ruiz is Lecturer at the University of California, Merced, USA. She is also the Co-Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Latino/a Caucus.