Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication

Introduction
Miriam F. Williams

SECTION I: HISTORICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE AND NATIONALITY IN HEALTH AND SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

CHAPTER 1. The Eugenics Agenda: Deliberative Rhetoric and Therapeutic Discourse of Hate
Flourice Richardson

SECTION II: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ACTIVISM IN TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

CHAPTER 2. Using a Hybrid Form of Technical Communication to Combat Environmental Racism in South Texas: A Case Study of Suzie Canales, a Grassroots Activist
Diana L. Cardenas and Cristina Kirklighter

CHAPTER 3. The Importance of Ethnographic Research in Activist Networks
Natasha N. Jones

SECTION III: CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

CHAPTER 4. Tweeting Collaborative Identity: Race, ICTs, and Performing Latinidad
Cruz Medina

CHAPTER 5. Taqueros, Luchadores, y los Brits: U.S. Racial Rhetoric, and Its Global Influence
Octavio Pimentel and Katie Gutierrez

SECTION IV: REPORTING TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION AT HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

CHAPTER 6. HBCU Institutional Reporting as Intercultural Technical Communication
Thereisa Coleman

SECTION V: USERS' RIGHT TO THEIR OWN LANGUAGE

CHAPTER 7. A Response to "Students' Right to Their Own Language
Nancy Wilson and Alyssa Crow

CHAPTER 8. Spanglish: A New Communication Tool
Krystle Danuz

SECTION VI: COMMUNICATING IDENTITY ACROSS BORDERS, CULTURES, AND DISCIPLINES

CHAPTER 9. Americans' Changing Perceptions of Indian Cultural Identity: An Analysis of Indian Call Centers
Kendall Kelly

CHAPTER 10. This Bridge Called My Pen
Nelly Rosario

Contributors
Index