Latina/o Language, Discourses, and Rhetorics: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric

Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University


I also use CiteULike and del.icio.us for bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Also check CompPile and the MLA International Bibliography.

A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.

Please email suggestions, corrections, or additions.

Last updated 24 July 2009

Aparicio, Frances R.  "Of Spanish Dispossessed."  Language Ideologies:  Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement.  Ed. Roseann Due–as Gonz‡lez.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 2000.   248-275. 

Arthur, B., et al.  "Evaluation Reactions of College Students to Dialect Differences in the English of Mexican-Americans."  Language and Speech 17 (1974):  255-70.

Baca, Damian Patrick.  "Contesting U.S. Cultures of Authorship."  An Introduction to Authorship.  Ed. Tracy Hamler Carrick and Rebecca Moore Howard.  New York:  Wadsworth.  Forthcoming. 

Baca, Dam’an. "The Chicano Codex: Writing against Historical and Pedagogical Colonization." College English 71.6 (July 2009): 564-583.

Barker, G.C.  "Social Functions of Language in a Mexican American Community."  Acta Americana 4 (1947):  189-92.

Barron, Nancy G.  "Dear Saints, Dear Stella:  Letters Examining the Messy Lines of Expectations, Stereotypes, and Identity in Higher Education."  College Composition and Communication 55.1 (September 2003):  11-37. 

Baugh, John.  "Chicano English:  The Anguish of Definition."  Linguistics for Teachers.  Eds. Linda Miller Cleary and Michael D. Linn.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1993.  198-206.

Berk-Seligson, S.  "A Sociolinguistic View of the Mexican-American Speech Community:  A Review of the Literature."  Latin American Research Review 15 (1980):  65-110.

Bills, Garland D.  "New Mexican Spanish:  Demise of the Earliest European Variety in the United States." American Speech 72.2 (Summer 1997):  154-72. 

Bokser, Julie A. "Sor Juana's Rhetoric of Silence." Rhetoric Review 25.1 (2006): 5-21.

Brennan, E.M., et al.  "Accent Scaling and Language Attitudes:  Reactions to Mexican-American English Speech."  Language and Speech 24 (1981):  207-21.

Briggs, Charles L.  Competence in Performance:  The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art.  Philadelphia:  U of Pennsylvania P, 1988.

Cafferty, Pastora San Juan.  "The Language Question:  The Dilemma of Bilingual Education for Hispanics in America."  Ethnic Relations in America.  Ed. Lance Liebman.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice-Hall, 1982.  101-127.

C‡rdenas, Diana.  "Creating an Identity:  Personal, Academic, and Civic Literacies." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  114-125.

Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos.  "Language Policy and the Puerto Rican Community."  The Bilingual Review/La Revista Bilingue 5 (1978):  1-39. 

Cintron, Ralph.  Angels' Town:  Chero Ways, Gang Life, and Rhetorics of the Everyday.  Boston:  Beacon, 1997. 

Cintron, Ralph.  "Valerio's Walls and the Rhetorics of the Everyday." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  70-84.

Cortez, Sarah.  "Visions of the City:  A Classroom Experience." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  96-113.

Craddock, Jerry R.  "New World Spanish."  Language in the USA.  Ed. Charles Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath.  196-214. 

Diaz-Guerrero, Rogelio, and Lorand B. Szalay.  Understanding Mexicans and Americans:  Cultural Perspectives in Conflict.  New York:  Plenum, 1991.

Dussel, Enrique. The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of "the Other" and the Myth of Modernity. 1992. Trans. Michael Barber.  New York: Continuum, 1995.

Elias-Olivares, Lucia, et al.  Spanish Language Use and Public Life in the United States.  New York:  Mouton de Gruyter, 1985.

Elias-Olivares, Lucia.  "Language Use in a Chicano Community:  A Sociolinguistic Approach."  Working Papers in Sociolinguistics Number 30.  Austin:  Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 1976.

Enoch, Jessica.  "Para la Mujer:  Defining a Chicana Feminist Rhetoric at the Turn of the Century."  College English 67.1 (Sept. 2004):  20-37. 

Enoch, Jessica. "Survival Stories: Feminist Historiographic Approaches to Chicana Rhetorics of Sterilization Abuse." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35.3 (Summer 2005): 5-31.

Farr, Marcia, and Gloria Nardini.  "Essayist Literacy and Sociolinguistic Difference."  Assessment of Writing:  Politics, Policies and Practices.  Ed. Edward M. White, William D. Lutz, and Sandra Kamusikiri.  Modern Language Association, 1996.  108-119. 

Fishman, Joshua A., et al.  "Attitudes and Beliefs about Spanish and English among Puerto Ricans."  Viewpoints 47 (1971):  51-72.

Frazer, Timothy C.  "Chicano English and Spanish Interference in the Midwestern United States."  American Speech 71.1 (Spring 1996):  72-85. 

Fuller, Bruce, John H.Y. Edwards, and Kathleen Gorman.  "Does Rising Literacy Spark Economic Growth?  Commercial Expansion in Mexico."  The Future of Literacy in a Changing World.  Ed. Daniel A. Wagner.  Rev. ed.  Cresskill, NJ:  Hampden P, 1999.  373-396. 

Giles, Howard, et al.  "Reactions to Anglo- and Hispanic-American-Accented Speakers:  Affect, Identity, Persuasion, and the English-Only Controversy."  Language and Communication 15.2 (April 1995):  107-20. 

Gonzalez, Roseann Duenas.  "Teaching Mexican-American Students to Write:  Capitalizing on the Culture."  English Journal 71 (November 1982):  20-4. 

Guerra, Juan C.  "Emerging Representations, Situated Literacies, and the Practice of Transcultural Repositioning." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  7-23. 

Gutmann, Matthew C.  The Meanings of Macho:  Being a Man in Mexico City. Berkeley:  U California P, 1996. 

Kells, Michelle Hall, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva, eds.  Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004. 

Kells, Michelle Hall  "Understanding the Rhetorical Value of Tejano Codeswitching." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  24-39. 

King, Linda.  Roots of Identity:  Language and Literacy in Mexico.  Stanford, CA:  Stanford UP, 1994. 

Kirklighter, Christina, Diana Cardens, and Susan Wolff Murphy, eds. Teaching Writing with Latino/a Students: Lessons Learned at Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Albany: SUNY P, 2007.

Kirschner, Samual A., and G. Howard Poteet.  "Non-Standard English Usage in the Writing of Black, White, and Hispanic Remedial English Students in an Urban Community College."  Research in the Teaching of English 7 (1973):  351-5.

Language Policy Task Force.  "Social Dimensions of Language Use in East Harlem."  Centro Working Papers No. 7.  New York:  Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, 1980.

Larmouth, Donald W.  "Language and Human Conflict:  A Case-Study Approach to Language Variation."  Language Variation in North American English:  Research and Teaching.  Ed. A. Wayne Glowka and Donald M. Lance.  New York:  Modern Language Association, 1993.  219-34.

Luciani, Frederick.  Literary Self-Fashioning in Sor Juana InŽs de la Cruz.  Bucknell UP, 2004. 

McWhorter, John H.  "The Scarcity of Spanish-Based Creoles Explained."  Language in Society 24.2 (June 1995):  213-44. 

Meier, Kenneth J., and Joseph Stewart, Jr.  The Politics of Hispanic Education:  Un paso pa'lante y dos pa'tras.  SUNY P, 1991. 

Mej’a, Jaime.  "Bridging Rhetoric and Composition Studies with Chicano and Chicana Studies:  A Turn to Critical Pedagogy." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  40-56.

Mej’a, Jaime Armin.  "Tejano Arts of the U.S.-Mexico Contact Zone." JAC:  A Journal of Composition Theory 18.1 (1998):  123-136. 

Mej’a, Jaime Armin.  "They Could Be Giants:  Gregorio Cortez, Carmen Lomas Garza's Familias, and Spy Kids." Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Ed. Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  70-76.

MiguŽlez, Cynthia.  "The 'Normalization' of Minority Languages in Spain." Language Ideologies:  Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement.  Vol. 2.  Ed. Roseann Due–as Gonz‡lez.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 2001.  346-368. 

MilanŽs, Cecilia Rodr’guez, Linda Flower, Beverly Moss, and Marco Portales.  "Tertulia." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  126-139.

Moreno, Renee M.  "'The Politics of Location':  Text as Opposition."  College Composition and Communication 54.2 (December 2002):  222-242. 

Morris, M.  Saying and Meaning in Puerto Rico:  Some Problems in the Ethnography of Discourse.  Tarrytown, NY:  Elsevier, 1981.

Nora, Amaury, and Laura Rendon.  "Hispanic Student Retention in Community Colleges:  Reconciling Access with Outcomes."  Class, Race, and Gender in American Education.  Ed. Lois Weis.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 1988. 126-43.

Ortiz, Flora Ida.  "Hispanic-American Children's Experiences in Classrooms:  A Comparison between Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Children."  Class, Race, and Gender in American Education.  Ed. Lois Weis.  Albany:  SUNY UP, 1988. 63-86.

Penalosa, F.  Chicano Sociolinguistics--A Brief Introduction.  Rowley:  Newbury House, 1980.

Perea, Juan F.  "The New American Spanish War:  How the Courts and the Legislatures Are Aiding the Suppression of Languages Other Than English." Language Ideologies:  Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement.  Vol. 2.  Ed. Roseann Due–as Gonz‡lez.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 2001.  121-140. 

Ramirez, John.  "The Chicano Homosocial Film:  Mapping the Discourse of Sex and Gender in American Me."  Pre/Text:  A Journal of Rhetorical Theory 16.3-4 (Fall-Winter 1995):  260-274. 

Roca, Ana, and John M. Lipski, eds.  Spanish in the United States:  Linguistic Contact and Diversity.  Berlin:  Mouton de Gruyter, 1993. 

Rodriguez, Richard.  "Aria:  A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood." Exploring Language, 5th ed.  Ed. Gary Goshgarian.  Glenview IL:  Scott, Foresman, 1989:  241-53.

Rodriguez, Richard.  "Caught Between Two Languages."  Language Awareness.  Ed. Paul Escholz, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark.  New York:  St. Martin's, 1985.  25-37.

Rodriguez, Richard.  Hunger of Memory:  The Education of Richard Rodriguez;  An Autobiography.  Boston, Mass.:  David R. Godine, 1981.

Rymes, Betsy, and Kate Anderson. "Second Language Acquisition for All: Understanding the Interactional Dynamics of Classrooms in Which Spanish and AAE Are Spoken." Research in the Teaching of English 39.2 (Nov. 2004).

Salvatori, Mariolina.  "Porque no puedo decir mi cuento:  Mexican Ex-votos' Iconographic Literacy." Popular Literacy:  Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics. Ed. John Trimbur.  U Pittsburgh P, 2001.  17-42. 

Santa Ana, Otto A.  "Sonority and Syllable Structure in Chicano English."  Language Variation and Change 8.1 (1996). 

Silva-Corvalan, Carmen.  Language Contact and Change:  Spanish in Los Angeles. New York:  Oxford UP, 1994.

Sole, Y.  "Language Attitudes Toward Spanish among Mexican American College Students."  Journal of LASSO 2 (1977):  37-46.

Thatcher, Barr;y.  "Contrastive U.S. and South American Rhetorics." Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Ed. Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  56-69.

Villa, Daniel.  "No nos dejaremos:  Writing in Spanish as an Act of Resistance." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  85-95.

Villanueva, Victor, Jr.  Bootstraps:  From an American Academic of Color.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 1993. 

Villanueva, Victor.  "Cuentos de mi Historia:  An Art of Memory."  Personal Effects:  The Social Character of Scholarly Writing.  Ed. Deborah H. Holdstein and David Bleich.  Logan:  Utah State UP, 2001.  267-276. 

Villanueva, Victor, Jr.  "Solamente InglŽs and Hispanics."  Not Only English:  Affirming America's Multilingual Heritage.  Ed. Harvey A. Daniels.  Urbana, Illinois:  NCTE, 1990.  77-6.

Wald, Benji.  "Spanish-English Grammatical Contact in Los Angeles:  The Grammar of Reported Speech in the East Los Angeles Contact Vernacular."  Linguistics 25 (1987):  53-80. 

Yasin, Jon A.  "Keepin' It Real:  Hip Hop and El Barrio." Latino/a Discourses:  On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education.  Ed. Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  57-69.

Zavella, Patricia.  "The Politics of Race and Gender:  Organizing Chicana Cannery Workers in Northern California."  Women and the Politics of Empowerment.  Ed. Ann Bookman and Sandra Morgen.  Philadelphia:  Temple UP, 1988.  202-226. 

Zentella, Ana Celia.  "Language Variety Among Puerto Ricans."  Language in the USA.  Ed. Charles Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath.  New York:  Cambridge UP, 1981.  218-38.

Zentella, Ana Celia.  "Language and Female Identity in the Puerto Rican Community."  Women and Language in Transition.  Ed. Joyce Penfield.  Albany:  SUNY P, 1987.  167-79.