Category: Asian American Studies

Category: Asian American Studies

New Book: Writing against Racial Injury

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New Book: Writing against Racial Injury

Writing against Racial Injury The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric Haivan V. Hoang RHETORIC/LITERACY/ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES “Hoang offers an insightful thick description of Asian American activism rhetoric at the sites of language and literacy production. It teaches us to rethink what we mean by ‘student writing’ and the ‘teaching of writing’ in light of a broad range of self-sponsored, extracurricular rhetorical acts by Asian American activists.” —Min-Zhan Lu, University of Louisville Bringing together language and literacy studies, Asian American history and rhetoric, and critical race theory, Hoang uses historiography and ethnography to explore the politics of Asian American language…

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