College English, Vol. 71, No. 6, July 2009

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• The Chicano Codex: Writing against Historical and Pedagogical Colonization

  Damían Baca

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  Abstract: Contemporary Chicano codex rhetorics subversively question the alleged superiority of Western writing traditions, while reminding us that Mesoamerican pictographs have been an important—although repressed—part of rhetorical history.

• “The American Way”: Resisting the Empire of Force and Color-Blind Racism

  Aja Y. Martinez

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  Abstract: Drawing on the work of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, the author examines how—in order to explain their positions in the academy—many students of color (including those who are both first-generation Chicano/a and first-generation college students) unfortunately rely on dominant color-blind ideology concerning freedom of choice and equal opportunity.

• The Corrido: A Border Rhetoric

  Mark Noe

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  Abstract: The border rhetorics that Latino/a students bring into the classroom can help them and other students resist being appropriated by academic discourse.  For example, the corrido involves a mimicry of conventions that enables students to envision a fluid identity rather than exchange one identity for another.

• Forging a Mestiza Rhetoric: Mexican Women Journalists’ Role in the Construction of a National Identity

  Cristina D. Ramírez

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  Abstract: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, various Mexican women journalists pioneered a mestiza rhetoric that was resistant to oppressive ideologies.

• Colonial Memory and the Crime of Rhetoric: Pedro Albizu Campos

  Victor Villanueva

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  Abstract: The author recounts his efforts to find out about Puerto Rican activist Pedro Albizu Campos, who was imprisoned chiefly because of his rhetoric.

• Announcements and Calls for Papers

• Thanks to our Referees

• Index to Volume 71

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