Clemson University Press: Rhetorics of Conflict – serie

This essay collection explores the inextricable link between rhetoric, public memory, and campus history projects. Since the early twentieth century after Brown University appointed its Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, higher education institutions around the globe have launched initiatives to research, document, and share their connections to slavery and its legacies. Many of these explorations have led to investigations about the rhetorical nature of campus history projects, including the names of buildings, the installation of monuments, the publication of books, the production of resolutions, and the hosting of public programs. The essays in this collection examine the rhetorical nature of a range of initiatives, including the creation of land acknowledgement statements, the memorialization of universities’ historic financial ties to the slave trade, the installation and removal of monuments or historical markers, the development of curriculum for campus history projects. The book takes a chronological approach, beginning with the examination of a project at a university that was built on the site of a historic Native American town, moving through a series of essays about initiatives that grew out of universities’ associations with slavery and its legacies in the United Kingdom and America, and ending with a critique of several pedagological approaches in campus history courses designed for undergraduate students.

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Border Mapping: A Participatory Community-Mapping Design of the Mexico-USA Borderlands responds to the global state of the “border crisis” from a localized perspective with its focus on one of the most active international borders on the Mexico-US border: the borderland region encompassing Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, USA. This book contributes timely scholarship on border violence and challenges the colonial logic of cartographic design of Juarez-El Paso border maps by demonstrating how participatory communication design can assist in the decolonization of border spaces. Through its participatory mapping framework, this book brings a rhetorical border studies approach to map design, positions borderlands residents as the creators and owners of their own space and explores rhetorical-ethical ways of humanizing borders.