Writing in Multicultural Settings

by Severino, Carol; Guerra, Juan C.; Butler, Johnnella E.

• ISBN13: 9780873525831
• ISBN10: 0873525833
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(11)
PART I: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity	12	(94)
Embracing a Multicultural Rhetoric	12	(1)
Bonnie Lisle
Sandra Mano
Whose Voice Is It Anyway? Marked Features in the Writing of Black English Speakers	27	(13)
Denise Troutman
Teaching American Indian Students: Interpreting the Rhetorics of Silence	40	(11)
Michelle Grijalva
Exploring Bias in Eassy Tests	51	(16)
Liz Hamp-Lyons
"Real Niggaz's Don't Die": African American Students Speaking Themselves into Their Writing	67	(12)
Kermit E.Campbell
Negotiating Authority through One-to-One Collaboration in the Multicultural Writing Center	79	(15)
Susan Blalock
Cross-Talk: Talking Cross-Difference	94	(12)
Gail Y.Okawa
PART II: The Roles of Teachers and Texts	106	(92)
Two Approaches to "Cultural Text": Toward Multicultural Literacy	106	(12)
Carol Severino
Decolonizing the Classroom: Freshman Composition in a Multicultural Setting	118	(15)
Esha Niyogi De
Donna Uthus Gregory
Writing Identities: The Essence of Difference in Multicultural Classrooms	133	(17)
Wendy S.Hesford
Composition Readers and the Construction of Identity	150	(22)
Sandra Jamieson
"But Isn't This the Land of the Free?": Resistance and Discovery in Student Responses to Farewell to Manzanar	172	(17)
Virginia A. Chappell
Cross-Talk: Teachers, Texts, Readers, and Writers	189	(9)
Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes
PART III: ESL Issues	198	(50)
Contrastive Rhetoric: Implications for Teachers of Writing in Multicultural Classrooms	198	(11)
Ulla Connor
Differences in ESL and Native-English-Speaker Writing: The Research and Its Implications	209	(11)
Tony Silva
Cultural Conflicts in the Writing Center: Expectations and Assumptions of ESL Students	220	(14)
Muriel Harris
Cross-Talk: ESL Issues and Contrastive Rhetoric	234	(14)
Ilona Leki
PART IV: Sociocultural and Pedagogical Tensions	248	(85)
The Place of Intercultural Literacy in the Writing Classroom	248	(13)
Juan C.Guerra
The Politics of Difference: Toward a Pedagogy of Reciprocity	261	(12)
Mary Soliday
An Afrocentric Multicultural Writing Project	273	(14)
Henry L.Evans
"Better Than What People Told Me I Was": What Students of Color Tell Us About the Multicultural Composition Classroom	287	(11)
Carol A.Miller
Students of the Border	298	(9)
Kate Mangelsdorf
When the Writing Test Fails: Assessing Assessment at an Urban college	307	(18)
Barbara Gleason
Cross-Talk: Toward Transcultural Writing Classrooms	325	(8)
Keith Gilyard
Notes on Contributors	333	(6)
Works Cited	339	(26)
Index	365