"This Woman's Work" in a "Man's World": A Feminist Analysis of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002

Published in Whittier Law Review, v.28, 2006Farm Bill, Feminism, Farm Security and Rural Investment Act, 2002, Sciullo, law, womyn, international agriculture, covered commodities, Agricultural and Food Policy, Food Security and Poverty, International Development, International Relations/Trade, Public Economics,

Queer Phenomenology in Law: A Critical Theory of Orientation

This Article argues for the application of phenomenology to legal understanding, specifically as a way to think about and through queer people’s interactions with law as well as queer theory in law. There are both pragmatic and theoretical justifications for this project. The pragmatic justifications include the need to better address the legal issues and experiences of queer people, recent political and legal decisions and debates that affect queer people specifically, the need to better provide epistemological resources for queer lawyers, law scholars, law students, and their allies, and the need to better understand how law affects minoritarian populations regardless of specific identity characteristics. The theoretical justifications include the relative under-theorization of queer theory in law, the improvement of legal theory’s interaction with related theories in the humanities and social sciences, and the development of a more robust theory of everyday interactions with law consistent with individuals’ diverse experiences and identities. These justifications counsel for further study and attempts to account for diversity in law

A Rhetorical Analysis of George Jackson\u27s Soledad Brother: A Class Critical and Critical Race Theory Investigation of Prison Resistance

This study offers a rhetorical analysis of George Jackson’s Soledad Brother, informed by class critical and critical race theory. Recent rhetorical studies scholarship has taken up the problem of prisons, mass incarceration, and resultant issues of race, yet without paying attention to the nexus of black radicalism and criticisms of capital. This study views George Lester Jackson as a rhetorician in his own right and argues that his combination of critical race and class critical perspectives is an important move forward in the analysis of mass incarceration. Jackson is able to combine these ideas in a plain-writing style where he employs intimacy, distance, and the strategy of telling it like it is. He does this in epistolary form, calling forth a long tradition of persuasive public letter writing. At this study’s end, ideas of circulation re engaged to show the lines of influence Jackson has and may continue to have. Through rhetorical analysis of Soledad Brother, this study demonstrates the utility of uniting class critical criticism and critical race theory for rhetorical studies, and suggests further avenues of research consistent with this approach

Richard Sherman, Rhetoric, and Racial Animus in the Rebirth of the Bogeyman Myth

After the Seattle Seahawks won the NFC Championship game, the postgame interview of Richard Sherman, a defensive back for the Seahawks, became subject to racialized discourse in the media. This article draws upon important concepts of black danger, blackness and the media, and racial animus to explain how media pundits and online commentaries about the interview have created a modem-day version of the bogeyman. In so doing, the article theorizes a new logic to racial animus-the myth of the bogeyman-to expound on the confluence of race, law, and sports. This new approach will help to explain covert racism in the professional sports industry and in the media at large, and the complex politics of racial acceptance on the backdrop of sports media\u27s whiteness

In Honor of the Louisville Project: Allying Instead of Allyship to Support Minority Debaters

Allyship has been a common topic of discussion among social justice and social work advocates (Edwards, 2006; Ostrove & Brown, 2017; Gibson, 2014), communication and rhetorical studies scholars (DeTurk, 2011; Lawless, 2016), and debaters and debate coaches. Yet, we know little about what an ally is or does. In this article we critique allyship as a deeply problematic way of expressing oneself. We do so for several reasons: allyship is about status and box-checking more than assistance and support, it allows backsliding and defensive responses instead of reflection and critical engagement, and it focuses more on the person claiming to be an ally than the people with whom this person claims to ally. As such, we argue allying is a better term because it emphasizes the constant action, indeed the praxis necessary, to truly assist and support minority populations, specifically black populations, given systemic anti-black racism and an increasingly overtly racist public sphere. To honor the Louisville Project, debate activity participants must practice allying and not allyship

Writing as a Humanities Ph.D. Student: Discovering the Writer in You, Exploring New Venues, and Rebuffing Criticisms

Humanities graduate students often receive conflicting information about what, where, and how to publish. While publishing can be a stressful process, there are many opportunities for humanities graduate students to succeed. To be successful as a writer, though, graduate students must develop confidence, explore new avenues for publishing, and steel themselves against the inevitable deluge of criticism from reviewers, graduate colleagues, and even faculty in one’s department. To do that, I present several ways graduate students can become professional, scholarly writers, different avenues in which to publish, ways to develop one’s writing style and experience, and some advice on enduring criticism, which is unavoidable in scholarly life. This article argues that graduate students should publish and that with enough time and patience, the process can be rewarding and enjoyable