Who Says?: Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community
edited by William DeGenaro
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007 eISBN: 978-0-8229-7310-2 | Paper: 978-0-8229-5938-0 Library of Congress Classification PE1422.W56 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 420.141
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Who Says?, scholars of rhetoric, composition, and communications seek to revise the elitist “rhetorical tradition” by analyzing diverse topics such as settlement house movements and hip-hop culture to uncover how communities use discourse to construct working-class identity. The contributors examine the language of workers at a concrete pour, depictions of long-haul truckers, a comic book series published by the CIO, the transgressive “fat” bodies of Roseanne and Anna Nicole Smith, and even reality television to provide rich insights into working-class rhetorics. The chapters identify working-class tropes and discursive strategies, and connect working-class identity to issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Using a variety of approaches including ethnography, research in historic archives, and analysis of case studies, Who Says? assembles an original and comprehensive collection that is accessible to both students and scholars of class studies and rhetoric.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
William DeGenaro is assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Michigan, Dearborn.
REVIEWS
”Impressive. The diversity of research approaches to social class itself is exemplary. . . . A welcome collection, one a long time coming.” --JACw
In Who Says?, scholars of rhetoric, composition, and communications seek to revise the elitist “rhetorical tradition” by analyzing diverse topics such as settlement house movements and hip-hop culture to uncover how communities use discourse to construct working-class identity. The contributors examine the language of workers at a concrete pour, depictions of long-haul truckers, a comic book series published by the CIO, the transgressive “fat” bodies of Roseanne and Anna Nicole Smith, and even reality television to provide rich insights into working-class rhetorics. The chapters identify working-class tropes and discursive strategies, and connect working-class identity to issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Using a variety of approaches including ethnography, research in historic archives, and analysis of case studies, Who Says? assembles an original and comprehensive collection that is accessible to both students and scholars of class studies and rhetoric.
—Jennifer Beech, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Contents
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction: What Are Working-Class Rhetorics?
William DeGenaro
Part I: Toward a Working-Class Rhetorical Tradition
Articulating the Values of Labor and Laboring: Civic Rhetoric and Heritage Tourism 000
James V. Catano
"Miners Starve, Idle or Working": Working-Class Rhetoric of the Early Twentieth Century 000
Judith D. Hoover
"Don't Let Them Step On You": Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Rhetoric of the Great Strikes, 1909-1913 000
Anne F. Mattina
Unsettling Working-Class Commonplaces in Jane Addams's Settlement House Rhetoric 000
Melissa J. Fiesta
The Culture of Steel and Memory: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor 000
Anthony Esposito
Part II: Rhetorics of the Workplace
The Rhetoric of Migrant Farmworkers 000
Emily Plec
Miles of Trials: The Life and Livelihood of the Long-Haul Trucker 000
Melanie Bailey Mills
Rhetoric on the Concrete Pour: The Dance of Decision Making 000
Dale Cyphert
Workplace Risk Communication: A Look at Literate Practice within Rhetorical Frameworks 000
Lew Caccia
Problematized Providing and Protecting: The Occupational Narrative of the Working Class 000
Kristen Lucas
Part III: Rhetorical Critiques of Working-Class Pop Culture
The Rhetorics of Reality TV and the Feminization of Working-Class Identity 000
Catherine Chaput
The Rhetoric of "I Have a Dream": The Remix
Kermit Campbell
Fatness as the Embodiment of Working-Class Rhetoric 000
Kathleen LeBesco
Establishing Counterhegemony through Narrative: The Comic Books of the Congress of Industrial Organizations 000
Steve Martin
Conclusion: Working-Class Rhetoric as Ethnographic Subject 000
Julie Lindquist
List of Contributors 000
Index 000
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Who Says?: Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community
edited by William DeGenaro
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007 eISBN: 978-0-8229-7310-2 Paper: 978-0-8229-5938-0
In Who Says?, scholars of rhetoric, composition, and communications seek to revise the elitist “rhetorical tradition” by analyzing diverse topics such as settlement house movements and hip-hop culture to uncover how communities use discourse to construct working-class identity. The contributors examine the language of workers at a concrete pour, depictions of long-haul truckers, a comic book series published by the CIO, the transgressive “fat” bodies of Roseanne and Anna Nicole Smith, and even reality television to provide rich insights into working-class rhetorics. The chapters identify working-class tropes and discursive strategies, and connect working-class identity to issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Using a variety of approaches including ethnography, research in historic archives, and analysis of case studies, Who Says? assembles an original and comprehensive collection that is accessible to both students and scholars of class studies and rhetoric.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
William DeGenaro is assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Michigan, Dearborn.
REVIEWS
”Impressive. The diversity of research approaches to social class itself is exemplary. . . . A welcome collection, one a long time coming.” --JACw
In Who Says?, scholars of rhetoric, composition, and communications seek to revise the elitist “rhetorical tradition” by analyzing diverse topics such as settlement house movements and hip-hop culture to uncover how communities use discourse to construct working-class identity. The contributors examine the language of workers at a concrete pour, depictions of long-haul truckers, a comic book series published by the CIO, the transgressive “fat” bodies of Roseanne and Anna Nicole Smith, and even reality television to provide rich insights into working-class rhetorics. The chapters identify working-class tropes and discursive strategies, and connect working-class identity to issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Using a variety of approaches including ethnography, research in historic archives, and analysis of case studies, Who Says? assembles an original and comprehensive collection that is accessible to both students and scholars of class studies and rhetoric.
—Jennifer Beech, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
TABLE OF CONTENTS
<DeGenaro, Contents>
<p. vii, no folio, p. viii, cont'd or blank>
Contents
Acknowledgments 000
Introduction: What Are Working-Class Rhetorics?
William DeGenaro
Part I: Toward a Working-Class Rhetorical Tradition
Articulating the Values of Labor and Laboring: Civic Rhetoric and Heritage Tourism 000
James V. Catano
"Miners Starve, Idle or Working": Working-Class Rhetoric of the Early Twentieth Century 000
Judith D. Hoover
"Don't Let Them Step On You": Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Rhetoric of the Great Strikes, 1909-1913 000
Anne F. Mattina
Unsettling Working-Class Commonplaces in Jane Addams's Settlement House Rhetoric 000
Melissa J. Fiesta
The Culture of Steel and Memory: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor 000
Anthony Esposito
Part II: Rhetorics of the Workplace
The Rhetoric of Migrant Farmworkers 000
Emily Plec
Miles of Trials: The Life and Livelihood of the Long-Haul Trucker 000
Melanie Bailey Mills
Rhetoric on the Concrete Pour: The Dance of Decision Making 000
Dale Cyphert
Workplace Risk Communication: A Look at Literate Practice within Rhetorical Frameworks 000
Lew Caccia
Problematized Providing and Protecting: The Occupational Narrative of the Working Class 000
Kristen Lucas
Part III: Rhetorical Critiques of Working-Class Pop Culture
The Rhetorics of Reality TV and the Feminization of Working-Class Identity 000
Catherine Chaput
The Rhetoric of "I Have a Dream": The Remix
Kermit Campbell
Fatness as the Embodiment of Working-Class Rhetoric 000
Kathleen LeBesco
Establishing Counterhegemony through Narrative: The Comic Books of the Congress of Industrial Organizations 000
Steve Martin
Conclusion: Working-Class Rhetoric as Ethnographic Subject 000
Julie Lindquist
List of Contributors 000
Index 000
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