RACE, GENDER & EQUALITY

University of Pittsburgh Press 9780822966135 • Paperback 15 b&w • 229 x 152mm • 464 pages March 2020 • £25.00

About the editors:

Shari Stenberg is Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Charlotte Hogg is associate professor of English at Texas Christian University.

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Persuasive Acts

Women’s Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture Women's and feminist rhetorics for the new millennium.

In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina’s state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first-century woman rhetor, along with bloggers, writers, politicians, activists, artists, and everyday social media users, who give new meaning to Aristotle’s ubiquitous definition of rhetoric as the discovery of the “available means of persuasion.” Women’s persuasive acts from the first two decades of the twenty-first century include new technologies and repurposed old ones, engaged not only to persuade, but also to tell their stories, to sponsor change, and to challenge cultural forces that repress and oppress.

Persuasive Acts: Women’s Rhetorics in the TwentyFirst Century gathers an expansive array of voices and texts from well-known figures including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Malala Yousafzai, Michelle Obama, Lindy West, Sonia Sotomayor, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, so that readers may converse with them, and build rhetorics of their own. Editors Shari J. Stenberg and Charlotte Hogg have complied timely and provocative rhetorics that represent critical issues and rhetorical affordances of the twenty-first century.

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The Black Rhetorical Presence in White Culture

By Cedric D. Burrows Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture How African American rhetoric becomes whitened when it crosses over into white audiences. In music, crossover means that a song has moved beyond its original genre and audience into the general social consciousness. Rhetorical Crossover uses the same concept to theorise how the black rhetorical presence has moved in mainstream spaces in an era where African Americans were becoming more visible in white culture. Cedric Burrows argues that when black rhetoric moves into the dominant culture, white audiences appear welcoming to African Americans as long as they present an acceptable form of blackness for white tastes.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946205 • Hardback 229 x 152mm • 168 pages • October 2020 • £38.00

Defiant Geographies

Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro By Lorraine Leu Series: Illuminations

Examines an act of urban reform as a forgetting of the country’s racial past.

This book examines the destruction of a poor community in the centre of Rio de Janeiro to make way for Brazil’s first international mega-event. As the country celebrated the centenary of its independence, its post-abolition whitening ideology took on material form in the urban development project that staged Latin America’s first World’s Fair. The book explores official efforts to reorganise space that equated modernisation with racial progress.

University of Pittsburgh Press • 9780822946007 • Hardback 37 b/w illus. • 229 x 152mm • 224 pages • March 2020 • £32.00

Our Rightful Place

A History of Women at the University of Kentucky, 1880--1945 By Terry L. Birdwhistell and Deirdre A. Scaggs Series: Topics in Kentucky History The story of the first female students at the University of Kentucky.

Drawing on yearbooks, photographs, and other private collections, this book examines the struggle for gender equity in higher education through the lens of the University of Kentucky. In the face of shifting resistance, pioneering women constructed opportunities for themselves. By examining the trials and triumphs of the university’s first female undergraduates, faculty, and administrators, this book uncovers the lasting impact women had on higher learning in the early days of coeducation.