Siete Lenguas: The Rhetorical History of Dolores Huerta and the Rise of Chicana Rhetoric

This dissertation is first an historical trajectory of Chicana Rhetoric in the American polis and then a perspectival analysis of three key texts from Chicana labor rights activist and vice president of the United Farm Workers Union Dolores Huerta. The trajectory establishes an efficacious legacy of Chicana Rhetoric and the analyses of Huerta's rhetoric explore what Chicana Rhetoric is and is not through the lens of media, scholarly, and personal rendition. I argue throughout that Chicana Rhetoric is representative of current intersections in social, political, racial, and gender rhetorics and Dolores Huerta is the embodiment of these intersections. The implications of this speak to the immediate need for Rhetoric and Composition to honor Chicana rhetors and scholars in our canonical fields of study.'

Name thesis:degree_name

English

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

2016

Author dc:creator

• Beagle, Christine

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kells, Michelle Hall
• Vasquez, Irene
• Jones, Natasha
• Vizcaino-Aleman, Melina

• Rhetoric
• Chicana
• Chicana/o
• Dolores Huerta
• United Farm Workers
• UFW
• Mexican American
• Third space feminism
• social semiotics
• rhetorical analysis
• Chicano Civil Rights Movement
• labor rights
• civil rights
• Cesar Chavez

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/34

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalrepository.unm.edu:engl_etds-1033