CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Salazar

Salazar, C.  A Third World Women’s Text:  Between the Politics of Criticism and Cultural Politics.  In S.B. Gluck and D. Patai, editors, Women’s Word:  The Feminist Practice of Oral History.  Routledge, NY and London, 1991 The author contends that women’s autobiography has become a central part of the “intellectual, political, and even armed resistance” waged by oppressed people against dominant or hegemonic groups (93). The author... Read More

CCR691 – Ethnography Readings

From Methods and Methodology in Composition Research Gesa Kirsch and Patricia A. Sullivan Chapter 7 : Ethnography and Composition:  Studying Language at Home This chapter provides a great how-to for ethnography.  Highlights: Ethnography works in situations where the researcher has epistemic privilege Ethnographers tend to focus on the daily routines in the everyday lives of the communities being studied. 3 modes of ethnography: Comprehensive-oriented: ... Read More

CCR691 – Ethnography Ch. 2 Horner – For Comment

Horner, Bruce. “Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work:  Rearticulating Labor.” Ethnography Unbound:  From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis. Ed. Stephen Gilbert Brown. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. 13-34. Main Claims/Executive Summary In this chapter Horner advances the argument that critical ethnography’s approach to collaboration, multivocality, and self-reflexivity have been steps in the right direction to distance ethnography from... Read More