Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers - Couverture souple

Sowards, Stacey K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1477317678 ISBN 13 : 9781477317679

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2019

Synopsis

Winner, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2020
Outstanding Book Award, Latina/o Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2020

Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers' rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside César Chávez, Huerta was a union vice president for nearly four decades before starting her own foundation in the early 2000s. She continues to act as a dynamic speaker, passionate lobbyist, and dedicated figure for social and political change, but her crucial contributions and commanding presence have often been overshadowed by those of Chávez and other leaders in the Chicana/o movement. In this new study, Stacey K. Sowards closely examines Huerta's rhetorical skills both in and out of the public eye and defines Huerta's vital place within Chicana/o history.

Referencing the theoretical works of Pierre Bourdieu, Chela Sandoval, Gloria Anzaldúa, and others, Sowards closely analyzes Huerta's speeches, letters, and interviews. She shows how Huerta navigates the complex intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, language, and class through the myriad challenges faced by women activists of color. Sowards's approach to studying Huerta's rhetorical influence offers a unique perspective for understanding the transformative relationship between agency and social justice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stacey K. Sowards is a professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has published several articles and other works on Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers, as well as on immigration activism in the twenty-first century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1477317678
• ISBN 13: 9781477317679
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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