Reclaiming the Rhetoric of Reies López Tijerina: Border Identity and Agency in “The Land Grant Question”

Journey Into Social Activism : Qualitative Approaches

“…Research by Cisneros (2012), Waisanen (2013), andPeterson (2009) all serve as good examples of research wherein activist events were studied via texts. Cisneros examines a speech given by the Chicano activist Reies Lopez Tijerina in November 1967, who was affi liated with Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants); the group sought to press the US government into returning land taken from Mexican people in the 1800s.…”

Journey into Social Activism

“…His research explores the rhetorical strategies that emerged from student protests against repressive state actions instituted by Slobodan Milosević; essentially, the protests against the forces of Milosević gave rise to specifi c recursive rhetorical strategies by Otpor activists. Regarding texts that represent the activist event, Josue Cisneros's (2012) research concerning Reies Tijerina's speech about the "land grant question" stands as the examination of an activist event. Th e speech was delivered to a national audience following a major militant action conducted by an activist organization with which he was affi liated.…”

“…Research by Cisneros (2012), Waisanen (2013), and Peterson (2009) all serve as good examples of research wherein activist events were studied via texts. Cisneros examines a speech given by the Chicano activist Reies Lopez Tijerina in November 1967, who was affi liated with Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants); the group sought to press the US government into returning land taken from Mexican people in the 1800s.…”

Between abundance and marginalization: the imperative of racial rhetorical criticism

“…As Cisneros argues, in the seeming political contradictions within some vernacular discourses, scholars account for rhetorical negotiations of identity and belonging, hybridity and citizenship, bodies and embodiment, colonization and resistance. 43 The implications of these negotiations, Holling and Calafell write, are considerable: "at stake is the need to understand . .…”