Professing in the contact zone : bringing theory and practice together /
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| Imprint: | Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c2002. |
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| Description: | xx, 312 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4706845 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Arts of the Contact Zone
- I. Spaces
- 1. First Contact: Composition Students' Close Encounters with College Culture
- 2. Multiculturalism, Contact Zones, and the Organization of English Studies
- 3. Contact Zones: Composition's Content in the University
- 4. Frontiers of the Contact Zone
- 5. Safe Houses and Sacrifices: Filling the Rooms with Precious Riches
- II. Clashes and Conflicts
- 6. Fault Lines in the Contact Zone
- 7. Reconstitution and Race in the Contact Zone
- 8. "Can't We All Just Get Along?" When a College Community Resists the Contact Zone
- 9. Contact, Colonization, and Classrooms: Language Issues via Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek and Villanueva's Bootstraps
- III. Community
- 10. Teaching in the Contact Zone: Multiple Literacies/Deep Portfolio
- 11. Writing Centers as Linguistic Contact Zones and Borderlands
- 12. Teaching in the Contact Zone: The Myth of Safe Houses
- 13. Contact Zones in Institutional Culture: An Anthropological Approach to Academic Programs
- 14. Telling Stories: Rethinking the Personal Narrative in the Contact Zone of a Multicultural Classroom
- Afterword: On the Teacher's Zone of Effectivity
- Index
- Editor
- Contributors
