Rhetoric’s “Distinguished” pitfalls: A plática

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ORCID

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6826-4932

Stacey K. Sowards http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0797-7047

Vincent N. Pham http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6572-3718

Godfried Agyeman Asante http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2595-2687

Tiara R. Na’puti http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7984-8308

Notes on contributors

Darrel Wanzer-Serrano is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Latina/o Studies, and Director of the Latina/o Studies Program at The University of Iowa.

Stacey K. Sowards is Professor in the Department of Communication at The University of Texas at El Paso.

Vincent N. Pham is Associate Professor of Civic Communication and Media and affiliated with the American Ethnic Studies program at Willamette University.

Godfried Agyeman Asante is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Media and Social Change and affiliated with the Women and Gender Studies at Drake University.

Tiara R. Na'puti is an Assistant Professor of Communication and affiliated with the Center for Native American & Indigenous Studies at University of Colorado Boulder.

Notes

1 Quoted in Colleen Flaherty, “When White Scholars Pick White Scholars.” Inside Higher Education (2019): https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/06/13/communication-scholars-debate-how-fields-distinguished-scholars-should-be-picked.

2 The full letter is available online at http://bernadettemariecalafellphd.com/?page_id=847&fbclid=IwAR0X6worA3scXJwkahOP6ijk_4oRvOuxwGbbYCNGgEjSiwc_GsyM6zP3WRQ

3 Lisa A. Flores, “Between Abundance and Marginalization: The Imperative of Racial Rhetorical Criticism,” Review of Communication 16, no. 1 (2016): 4–24.

4 Thomas K. Nakayama, and Robert L. Krizek, “Whiteness: A Strategic Rhetoric,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 81, no. 3 (1995): 291–309.; Gust A. Yep, “The Violence of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies: Notes on Injury, Healing, and Queer World-Making,” Journal of Homosexuality 45, no. 2–4 (2003): 11–59; Flores, “Between Abundance and Marginalization.”

5 Michael G. Lacy, and Kent A. Ono, eds. Critical Rhetorics of Race (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2011), 3.

6 J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, “‘A Structure, Not an Event’: Settler Colonialism and Enduring Indigeneity,” Lateral: A Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 5, no. 1 (Spring 2016).

7 Harsha Walia, “Decolonizing Together,” briarpatch magazine, January 1, 2012, https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/decolonizing-together

8 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is not a metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40; Jodi A. Byrd, The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).

9 Glen Coulthard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, “Grounded Normativity/Place-Based Solidarity,” American Quarterly 68, no. 2 (2016): 249–255.

10 Jodi A. Byrd, The Transit of Empire.

11 Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2014).

12 Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill, “Decolonizing Feminism: Challenging Connections between Settler Colonialism and Heteropatriarchy,” Feminist Formations 25, no. 1 (2013): 8–34.

13 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America, Fifth Edition (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).