Calling Cards

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Calling Cards is written by Jacqueline Jones Royster and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791483665 (ISBN 10) and 9780791483664 (ISBN 13).

Winner of the 2006 Nancy Dasher Award for Best Book on Professional and Pedagogical Issues In recent decades, the concepts of race, gender, and culture have come to function as "calling cards," the terms by which we announce ourselves as professionals and negotiate acceptance and/or rejection in the academic marketplace. In this volume, contributors from composition, literature, rhetoric, literacy, and cultural studies share their experiences and insights as researchers, scholars, and teachers who centralize these concepts in their work. Reflecting deliberately on their own research and classroom practices, the contributors share theoretical frameworks, processes, and methodologies; consider the quality of the knowledge and the understanding that their theoretical approaches generate; and address various challenges related to what it actually means to perform this type of work both professionally and personally, especially in light of the ways in which we are all raced, gendered, and acculturated.