College Composition and Communication Jun 2002

Race, Literacy, and the Value of Rights Rhetoric in Composition Studies

Patrick Bruch ; Richard Marback

Abstract

The fiftieth anniversary issue of CCC included a call from Geneva Smitherman for compositionists to renew the fight for language rights. In this article, we take up Smitherman’s call by situating the theory of language rights in composition studies in a brief history of rights rhetoric in the United States.

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College Composition and Communication
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2002-06-01
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10.58680/ccc20021467
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rhetorical criticism african american rhetorics literacy studies
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