Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: crossing the threshold ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. 1 Democratic discourse and lines across america 3
6. Part I Imagining boundaries: rhetoric resisting/defining symbolic borders
7. 2 Metonymic borders and our sense of nation 29
8. 3 Continuity and contact in a cosmopolitan world: code- switching and its effects on community identity 43
9. 4 Humor’s role in political discourse: examining border patrol in colbert nation 60
10. 5 Employing ethos to cross the borders of difference: teaching civil discourse 76
11. 6 Crossing linguistic borders in the classroom: moving beyond english only to tap rich linguistic resources 93
12. 7 Traversing rhetorical borders of spirituality in academic settings 111
13. 8 Difference as rhetorical stance: developing meaningful interactions and identification across racial and ethnic lines 129
14. Part II Living borders: rhetoric confronting/erasing physical boundaries
15. 9 “I am the 99 percent”: identification and division in the rhetorics of the occupy wall street protests 151
16. 10 American rhetorics of disappearance: translocal feminist problem-solving rhetorics 171
17. 11 “A melting pot that’s constantly being stirred”: rhetorics of race and tolerance at a regional museum 192
18. 12 De pie sobre la valla y mirando por la ventana: border realities of the immigrant experience 209
19. 13 Fostering inclusive dialogue in emergent university-community partnerships: setting the stage for intercultural inquiry 227
20. 14 Rhetorical education at the city’s edge: the challenge of public rhetoric in suburban america 254
21. 15 In sum and review: the rhetoric of lines across us 270
22. About the authors 285
23. Index 289