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Decolonizing Composition and Rhetorics Programs: An Indigenous Rhetorics Model for Implementing Concepts of Relationship and Integrating Marginalized Rhetorics

Brownlee, Yavanna M.
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2240-9216
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1525977377304453

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2018, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
Decolonizing Composition and Rhetorics Programs offers an Indigenous rhetorics curriculum and a paired GTA training course to help Composition and Rhetorics programs engage in concepts of relationship practices and open spaces for marginalized rhetorics and examines the impetus for these changes. Indigenous rhetorics, when housed within Comp/Rhet programs, offer not only a cultural examination of rhetorics in the contact zone but a way to work with peoples who are often erased by normative social practices, including public education. When taught with a concepts of relationship pedagogy, Indigenous rhetorics can also teach practitioners how to engage with all rhetorics in respectful and responsible ways and to give back to those they are building relationships with, a process modeled through the curriculum. The implications of this project are important for all students—marginalized or not—in that this project argues for the acknowledgement and celebration of all home rhetorics, even as students learn how to negotiate Western academic rhetorical practices and how to engage others, regardless of identification, respectfully and responsibly. In disrupting and challenging the normative practices of Comp/Rhet programs, students and faculty alike can recognize that marginalized rhetorics can exist equally within these programs and that all rhetorics have something to offer students with a variety of home rhetorics. The importance of this project lies in the work that it does to reorient Comp/Rhet programs to be truly diverse and truly interdisciplinary through working to fully integrate marginalized rhetorics into these programs, allowing rhetors work in alliance to examine the relationships between individual marginalized rhetorics as they exist within their own communities and ways of being and as they exist in relation to Western rhetorics.
Talinn Phillips, PhD (Committee Chair)
294 p.
Composition; Curricula; Native American Studies; Pedagogy; Rhetoric
Indigenous rhetorics; decolonial practice; concepts of relationship

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  • Brownlee, Y. M. (2018). Decolonizing Composition and Rhetorics Programs: An Indigenous Rhetorics Model for Implementing Concepts of Relationship and Integrating Marginalized Rhetorics [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1525977377304453

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brownlee, Yavanna. Decolonizing Composition and Rhetorics Programs: An Indigenous Rhetorics Model for Implementing Concepts of Relationship and Integrating Marginalized Rhetorics. 2018. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1525977377304453.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brownlee, Yavanna. "Decolonizing Composition and Rhetorics Programs: An Indigenous Rhetorics Model for Implementing Concepts of Relationship and Integrating Marginalized Rhetorics." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1525977377304453

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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