Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture

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Index 293 abolitionist audiences, 230, 231, 240 abolitionist discourse, 233 abolitionist reform pamphlets, 231 abolitionist reform writing, 232 abolitionists. See emigration and émigré settlements; Shadd (Cary) active vs. passive voice, 85, 89n1 actors, 251–53 African American community, leadership in, 125 African American experiences, metaphors for writing, 95 African American feminist rhetoricians , 121–22. See also Stewart, Maria W. African American folklore, “smarts” in, 99–104 African American literature critiques of, 205–6 “smarts” in, 96–98, 101–4 DWB (Driving While Black) stories, 100–101 “outsmarting whitey stories,” 100 African American Vernacular English , 210. See also Black English; Ebonics African American women identity, 118 literacy and the lives of, 11, 218– 19, 224 African American women’s literary history, reconstructing 19thcentury , 107–11, 115–18 disciplinary obstructions, 113–15 institutional challenges, 112 university impediments, 113 African Americans. See also “race matters” rhetoric; specific topics history of resistance and struggle, 1–2 mechanistic racism in 18th century and, 204–6 public-private dichotomies, 3 voting rights, 191–92 African complexion, explanation for, 207 Africanist narrative, manipulation of, 251 Agnew, Lois, 212 Ahmad, Aijaz, 161 Alcoff, Linda, 127 Allen, Theodore W., 30n2 Allison, Dorothy, 80, 83, 84, 86 alternative public spheres, 226n5 American Antiquarian Society (AAS), 107–8, 112 American Colonization Society (ACS), 240n1 American ethnic studies (AES), 114 American Federation of Labor (AFL), 140 American identity and whiteness, 17, 18, 22–26 American Indians. See Native Americans American Missionary Association (A.M.A.), 232 Appadurai, Arjun, 166 294 Index Apter, Emily, 166–67 art and artistic taste, 205–6 Aspasia, 172, 182 “at homes,” 218–19 athletes, 71–73 audience primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of, 233–34 authority. See also under composition classroom; Stewart gender and, 148, 150–51 race and, 148, 151–57 Autobiographical Notes (Baldwin), 109 autobiographies, 110 literacy, 36, 43, 45n4 autoethnography, 79 Babb, Valerie, 261, 263–64 Bacon, Jacqueline, 212 Baldwin, James, 34, 37, 42–43 Bambara, Toni Cade, 102 Bamboozled (film), 250, 251 Barkley, Charles, 253 Barnum, Phineas Taylor, 26 Bauer, Dale, 63 Bell, Betty Louise, 57–59 Beloved (Morrison), 103 Bend, David, 222 benevolent societies, 219–20 Berlant, Lauren, 219 Bernardi, Daniel, 31n2 Berry, Halle, 252, 253 Bible, 124–26 Bizzaro, Patrick, 259–61 Bizzaro, Resa Crane, 257 Black English, 80n1. See also Ebonics “black matters.” See “race matters” rhetoric black refugees and fugitives. See emigration and émigré settlements ; Refugees Home Society black rhetorical instruction in 19th century, sites of, 216–25 Blackman, Margaret, 56 blackness reading and, 111 as ultimate signifier of nothingness , 204 Blair, Hugh, 203–13, 221, 222 Bloom, Lynn Z., 82, 85 Bode, Carl, 220 Bonilla-Sliva, Eduardo, 152 “book sense,” African American ambivalence about, 110–11 Brodkey, Linda, 79 Brookwood Labor College, 145n4 Brown, Hallie Quinn, 221 Bruffee, Kenneth, 155 Buffalo Bird Woman, 53–54 Buffon, Georges, 207 Bumpo, Natty, 24 Burke, Kenneth, 4, 13 Bush, George H. W., 247 Bush, George W., 247 California, 35 “California Recall and the Future of Democracy, The,” 35 California State University (CSU), 35, 36, 39–41 “calling cards,” 87, 130, 132, 133 history, ix as metaphor, 4, 133 origin of the term, ix Canada, black émigrés in, 230–38 Canada Mission school, 232, 234–36 Canada schools, 234–36 captivity, narratives of, 20, 22 Carlacio, Jami L., 259–60 Carson, James P., 208–9 Cary, Mary Ann Shadd. See Shadd (Cary), Mary Ann Cavendish, Margaret, 183 feminism and, 172, 182 paradigm of, 173–75, 181–82 rhetorical works of, 173, 181–82 problems in reading, 171 Channing, William Ellery, 227n9 295 Index Cherokee Indian Normal School of Robeson County, 197–98. See also Croatan Normal School Chestnutt, Charles, 221–22, 224 Child, Lydia Maria, 24 China Cultural Revolution, 180, 183n1 gender equality, 175–80 Chinatown, 27 Chinese gender identity, 175, 182 Chinese Museum, 26 Chinese notions of “human” and “family,” 175–81, 184nn4–6, 185n10 Chinese post-Mao literary women, 171, 173, 175, 179–83 “antifeminist” rhetoric, 173–74, 179, 182 church-affiliated singing, preaching, and teaching, 217–18 City University of New York (CUNY), 40 Clance, Pauline R., 153 class identity, 78, 80. See also social class colleges and universities, 39–43. See also composition classroom; Imposter Syndrome; social class, and the academy remedial course offerings, 39–42 color, skin, 207 color-blind racism, 152, 244 Columbus, Christopher, 25, 256 composition classroom authority in, 148–52. See also Imposter Syndrome ascending the throne and...