From Black Codes to Recodification: Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing

Technical Communication Quarterly

Moore

Walton

2016

177

This article presents an antenarrative of the field of technical and professional communication. Part methodology and part practice, an antenarrative allows the work of the field to be reseen, forges new paths forward, and emboldens the field's objectives to unabashedly embrace social justice and inclusivity as part of its core narrative. The authors present a heuristic that can usefully extend the pursuit of inclusivity in technical and professional communication.

Section: Race and Ethnicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Disrupting the Past to Disrupt the Future: An Antenarrative of Technical Communication

Technical Communication Quarterly

Moore

Walton

2016

177

“…Research has uncovered "repeated references to an estimated two or three lynchings each week in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the South, and every reference listed economic competition from Blacks as a leading reason for the crime" (p. 140). Williams (2010) also addressed the connection between lynching and economic oppression in the United States. She discussed the writings of Ida B.…”

Section: A Historical Examination Of Black Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Allen (1995) argued for the need of race and ethnicity research in organizational communication, and Ashcraft and Allen (2003) called for a better understanding of race in organizational communication, asserting that “the field of organization communication tends to reproduce and sustain raced organizations” (p. 6). Notably, Williams (2010) has situated her study of historical and more contemporary black entrepreneurship squarely in the fields of rhetoric and technical and professional communication. To date, Williams’s book-length examination is the only scholarship that focuses exclusively on black entrepreneurship in the field.…”

Section: Black Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhetorical Narratives of Black Entrepreneurs

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

2017

Using cultural empowerment as a conceptual framework, this study emphasizes the interrelated role of culture, rhetorical agency, and empowerment in discursive analysis and communicative practice. Twelve black business owners were interviewed using a narrative inquiry approach. Thematic analysis revealed that these entrepreneurs enacted rhetorical agency in ways that work within oppressive systems and resisted damaging dominate discourses about black businesses. By highlighting the rhetorical narratives of black entrepreneurs, this study also addresses the need for a more culturally sensitive approach in business, professional, and organizational communication.

“…We can also consider how hegemonic practices and texts (like regulatory writing and state laws) can reinforce racial discrimination, subordinate, and objectify (Williams, 2010). We must examine the design and dissemination of communication critically with a focus on understanding how oppressive conditions can be rearticulated and reinforced.…”

Section: A Humanistic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

The Technical Communicator as Advocate

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication

2016

153

This article argues for the need for a social justice approach to technical communication research and pedagogy. Given previous calls by scholars in technical and professional communication (TPC) for an attention to diversity, inclusion, and equality, the author examines the place and purpose of social justice in TPC and provides useful approaches for promoting a more genuine and critical interrogation of how work in TPC impacts the human experience.