Damián P Baca

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• Baca, D. P., Cushman, E., & Garcia, R. (2020). Literacies of/from the Pluriverse. University of Pittsburgh Press.
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  Decoloniality produces fractures into the topography of the humanities where disciplines have long buried “other” sets of histories and memories; sowing the seed and reaping the harvest of hegemonic thought and feeling. Decolonization incorporates a range of projects including terminological de-naturalization, de-linking the coloniality and modernity/rationality matrix, re-linking, and working towards visions of pluriversality. As scholars committed to de-colonial options, we recognize the limits of a single-authored monograph. Thus, for your review, we submit Literacies of/from the Pluriversal: Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures, a timely contribution and a collective effort of residing in decolonial fractures while advancing a pluriverse of embodied communication practices. Literacies of/from the Pluriversal: Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures brings together decolonial and indigenous scholars from across humanistic disciplines (English, Communications, Education, Applied Linguistics, Hispanic Studies, Rhetorical Studies) who study literacies under the decolonial research and praxis paradigm from around the globe to better understand sites, practices, and processes of meaning making. There are several goals: (1) to provide perspective on sign tools and methods of representation from literacies and rhetorical frameworks, (2) to better understand the ways that writing and language work to disrupt normative structures, and (3) to create pluriversal possibilities. The range of topics covered include American Indian and Indigenous representations, literacies, and rhetorics, critical revisionist historiography and comparative rhetorics, de-linking literacies of coloniality of cartographic power and modernity, “northern” and “southern” hemispheric relations, and theorizations of/from oceanic borderspaces.Literacies of/from the Pluriversal: Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures will feature a forward, co-edited introduction, 10 contributors, 1 reprint, and an afterword. The anticipated length of the collection is between 70k words.
• Baca, D. P., Cushman, E., & García, R. (2023). Pluriversal Literacies: Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures. University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Baca, D. P., Germán, L., Rembert, K., Spinelli, H., Harris, P., Gorham, R., & Colantonio-Yurko, K. (2020). Now is Always the Time: Antibias and Antiracist Teaching (Quick Reference Guide). National Council for Teachers of English.
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  This Quick Reference Guide (NCTE Press) centers antibias and antiracist (ABAR) pedagogy as a framework for collaborative, inclusive classrooms aimed at naming racism and bias, and working toward dismantling them. The authors believe “this work is necessary, particularly as students learn to positively interrupt and respond to educational inequities and social inequalities in schools and throughout society” (Kinlock). We recognize and embrace a plurality of strategies from scholars before us (Combahee River Collective, Anzaldúa, Crenshaw, hooks, Jordan, Kinlock, Lorde, Moss, Royster, Richardson, Smitherman). The Guide offers concrete strategies for co-creating antiracist English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms. Developing a research-based ABAR approach (Kinloch, Burkhard, & Penn) is long-overdue and necessary. Additionally, Critical Race Theory (Delgado & Stefancic, Bonilla-Silva) is a powerful framework for understanding racism as a systemic function. NCTE authors will discuss how CRT can create a framework for ABAR in ELA instruction, and how to “embrace opportunities to have necessary and difficult conversations about literacy and English language arts.” Specifically, we will address five CRT tenets: racism is ordinary and not aberrational; interest convergence; the social construction of race; the idea of storytelling and counter-storytelling; and that whites have actually been recipients of civil rights legislation.
• Baca, D. P. (2018). Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference. Routledge (Landmark Essays series).
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  This edited collection makes visible the creation of difference by tracing the ways in which difference has come to be represented, critiqued, and challenged in rhetoric and composition studies. The use of ‘rhetorics’ signals something more than simply the grammatical plural. It signals the equalizing of knowledges, language strategies, and innovations that contribute to diverse understandings of rhetorical theory and practice.
• Baca, D. P. (2019). Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions. Urbana, Illinois: NCTE/CCCC Press, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) Series.
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  Contract signed September, 2018. Forthcoming, March 2019 with CCCC/SWR.
• Baca, D., Cushman, E., & Osborne, J. (2019). LANDMARK ESSAYS ON RHETORICS OF DIFFERENCE. doi:10.4324/9781003576556
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  Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference challenges the Eurocentric perspective from which the field of rhetoric is traditionally viewed. Taking a step beyond the creation of alternative rhetorics that maintain the centrality of the European and Greco-Roman tradition, this volume argues on behalf of pluriversal rhetorics that coexist as equally important on their own terms. A timely addition to the respected Landmark Essays series, it will be invaluable to students of history of rhetoric, literacy, composition, and writing studies.
• Baca, D. P. (2018). Rhetorics of Difference. New York: Routledge.
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  Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference challenges the Eurocentric perspective from which the field of rhetoric is traditionally viewed. Taking a step beyond the creation of alternative rhetorics that maintain the centrality of the European and Greco-Roman tradition, this volume argues on behalf of pluriversal rhetorics that coexist as equally important on their own terms. A timely addition to the respected Landmark Essays series, it will be invaluable to students of history of rhetoric, literacy, composition, and writing studies.
• Baca, D., & Villanueva, V. (2009). Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Baca, D. (2008). Mestiz@ scripts, digital migrations, and the territories of writing. Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapters

• Baca, D. P. (2020). Doing Rhetoric Elsewhere: Chicanx Indigeneities, Colonial Peripheries, and the Underside of Written Communication. In Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics: Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Contexts. Routledge.
• Baca, D. P. (2021). On Epistemic Disobedience, Confronting Coloniality, and Decolonizing the Visual: An Interview with Damián Baca. In Doing Digital Visual Studies: One Image, Multiple Methodologies(pp n.p.). Computers and Composition Digital Press.
• Baca, D. P. (2020). Doing Rhetoric Elsewhere: Chicanx Indigeneities, Colonial Peripheries, and the Underside of Written Communication. In The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics: Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Contexts(pp 382-385). Routledge.
• Baca, D. P. (2019). Hopes and Visions: The Possibility of De-Colonial Options. In Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions.(p. 49). CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric.
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  Introduction to the book and analysis of the previous two decades of research on colonial power in theory and teaching in rhetoric and composition studies.
• Baca, D. P. (2019). Writing the Digital Codex: Non/Alphabetic, De/Colonial, Network/ed. In Digital Afterlives: Futures of Indigenous Archives(p. 6). Dartmouth College Press.
• Baca, D. P. (2018). Introduction. In Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference(p. 12). New York: Routledge.
• Baca, D. (2010). Rhetoric, interrupted: La Malinche and Nepantlisma. In Rhetorics of the Americas. doi:10.1057/9780230102118
• Baca, D. (2010). te-ixtli: The "other face" of the Americas. In Rhetorics of the Americas. doi:10.1057/9780230102118
• Baca, D. (2008). MESTIZ@ SCRIPTS AND THE RHETORIC OF SUBVERSION. In Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing. doi:10.4324/9781003576556-14
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  I write with the same knowledge, the same sadness, recognizing the full impact of the colonial “experiment” on the lives of Chicanos, mestizos and Native Americans. Our codices-dead leaves unwritten-lie smoldering in the ashes of disregard, Censure, and erasure. The Last Generation emerges from those ashes. I write against time, out of a sense of urgency that Chicanos are a disappearing tribe, out of a sense of this disappearance in my own familia.

Journals/Publications

• Baca, D. P. (2016). Special Edition: "Decolonial Rhetorics, Compositions, and Classroom Agendas". Reflections, Proposal: 9 pages.
• Baca, D. P., & Garcia, R. (2020). Hopes for Concrete Actions and Collective Flourishing in the Face of COVID-19. Literacy & NCTE Blog, National Council of Teachers of English., 1.
• Baca, D., Cushman, E., & Osborne, J. (2019). INTRODUCTION THE CREATION OF DIFFERENCE: FOUNDATIONS, CHALLENGES, INTERVENTIONS. Rhetorics of Difference. doi:10.4324/9781003576556-1
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  Imagine 25 rhetoricians gathered in a straight line across an expansive courtyard. As a group we ask them to take one step forward if they were raised with English as their first language. Three quarters take one step forward. We then ask them to take two steps forward if they had more than 50 books in their home growing up. All but four take two additional steps. Take two steps forward if the English spoken in your home was a prestigious dialect of English. All but two take two steps forward. Take one step forward if your parents read to you growing up. Three quarters of them take a step forward. Take two steps forward if you were asked to write something more than a five-paragraph essay in school. This time only one third takes two steps forward. And so on through a list of 20 questions until our colleagues are spread across the courtyard. Because our questions related to the language and literacy practices that these scholars had been raised with, we see a pattern emerge: some of our colleagues are noticeably several steps behind others of our colleagues, and some of our colleagu es are noticeably several steps ahead. If viewed from above, one might notice that groups of colleagues have begun to sort by race, socioeconomic background, and gender into a scatterplot indicative of their various kinds of privilege.
• Baca, D. P. (2017). Decolonial Options and Writing Studies. Composition Studies, 45(2), 4.
• Gries, L., Baca, D., & Villanueva, V. (2010). Practicing Methods in Ancient Cultural Rhetorics: Uncovering Rhetorical Action in Moche Burial Rituals. Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE, 89--116.
• Baca, D. (2009). Preface. College English. doi:10.1057/9780230102118
• Baca, D. (2009). Rethinking composition, five hundred years later. JAC, 229--242.
• Baca, D. (2009). Rhetoric, Interrupted: La Malinche and Nepantlisma. Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE, 143--51.
• Baca, D. (2009). The Chicano codex: Writing against historical and pedagogical colonization. College English, 564--583.
• Baca, D. (2009). te-ixtli: The “Other Face” of the Americas. Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2012 CE, 1.
• Baca, D., & Villanueva, V. (2009). College English: Introduction. College English, 71(6).
• Arnold, H., & Baca, D. (2007). In chapter one, Nakamura discusses “digital divides”, a theory about access to the internet by minority groups. She speaks on a sensitive subject, saying that Asians are the “model minorities” with more access to and knowledge about the internet; that African.
• Baca, D. (2006). Border insurrections: How IndoHispano rhetorics revise dominant narratives of assimilation.
• Baca, D., & Murray, J. (2002). Image Writing \& Non-Discursive Symbolization: The Limitations of Alphacentric Historiographies.

Presentations

• Baca, D. P. (2020, March). Livable Futures for Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Indigenous / Latinx / African American / Asian-Asian American Dialogues. Convention on College Composition and Communication. canceled: College Composition and Communication.
• Baca, D. P. (2020, May). Hosting Settlers: Decolonial and Indigenous Rhetorics of First Contact. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. canceled: Rhetoric Society of America.
• Baca, D. P. (2020, May). Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Decolonial Praxis Across Communication and Composition. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. canceled: Rhetoric Society of America.
• Baca, D. P. (2020, May). Rhetorics of Presence: Environmental Resistance and Resilience. Rhetoric Society of America Conference. canceled: Rhetoric Society of America.
• Baca, D. P. (2021). Coalition for Community Writing Mentorship. Convention on College Composition and Communication.
• Baca, D. P. (2021). Community Writing Workshop. University of New Mexico, Southwest Environmental Education Cooperative.
• Baca, D. P. (2021). Decolonizing Language in the Classroom. Bread Loaf Teachers Network. Bread Loaf School of English.
• Baca, D. P. (2021). Histories of Rhetoric Elsewhere and Otherwise. Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Summer Institute.
• Baca, D. P. (2021). Job Market Strategies. Coalition for Community Writing.
• Baca, D. P. (2021). Livable Futures for Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Indigenous / Latinx / African American / Asian-Asian American Dialogues. Convention on College Composition and Communication.
• Baca, D. P. (2021). Rhetorical Sovereignty in Action: Community Literacies By and For Indigenous Stakeholders. Conference on Community Writing.
• Magana, M. R., Tellez, M., Baca, D. P., & Wilkinson-Lee, A. M. (2021, April). A Conversation with Mexican American Studies Faculty. The University of Arizona: Centering Servingness, Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Webinar Series. Virtual webinar: University of Arizona: Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives.
• Baca, D. P. (2020, November). Creating Dialogue across Generations of Scholars: Revolutionary Scholarship for and with Latinx Students, Families, and Communities. National Council for Teachers of English Annual Convention. online: National Council for Teachers of English.
• Baca, D. P. (2018, March). Latinx Futures: A Look at Emerging Latinx Research and Scholars. Convention on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO: NCTE/CCCC Latinx Caucus.
• Baca, D. P. (2018, March). Roots, Relationships, and Reciprocity: Food Literacies and Environmental Justice in Community Writing. Convention on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO.
• Baca, D. P. (2018, May). The Invention of Difference: Reimagining Rhetorics and Foundations for Rhetorical Understanding.”. Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN.
• Baca, D. P. (2018, November). Creating Dialogue across Generations of Scholars: Revolutionary Scholarship for and with Latinx Students, Families and Communities. National Council for Teachers of English. Houston Texas: NCTE/CCCC Latinx Caucus.
• Baca, D. P. (2018, November). The Role of Stories in Amplifying Students’ Voices: Café y El Atole. National Council for Teachers of English.. Houston Texas: Bread Loaf School of English.
• Baca, D. P. (2018, October). Rural Literacies, Post-Industrial Countrysides/Nuestras Voces: Speaking out for Equity and Justice. New Mexico Council for Teachers of English. Albuquerque, NM.
• Baca, D. P. (2017, July). Transculturación, new mestiza consciousness, and Restitutions of Subaltern Invention. National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing. Taos, NM.
• Baca, D. P. (2017, March). Cultivating and Mobilizing Social Justice Work in CCCC. Convention on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR.
• Baca, D. P. (2017, March). Writing Before and Beyond Visible Speech: Tlacuilolitztli/Spreading Color on Hard Surfaces. Convention on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR.
• Baca, D. P. (2017, November). But Is That Writing?: Teaching Writing Before and Beyond the Alphabet. NCTE. St. Louis, MO: Bread Loaf School of English.
• Baca, D. P. (2017, November). Creating Dialogue Across Generations of Scholars: Revolutionary Scholarship for and with Latinx Students, Families and Communities. NCTE. St. Louis, MO: NCTE/CCCC Latinx Caucus.
• Baca, D. P. (2017, November). Navajo Voices in Action: Teaching and Learning with Indigenous Youth Leaders. NCTE. St. Louis, MO: Navajo Nation, Bread Loaf School of English.
• Baca, D. P. (2016, Fall). Advocating for Glocal Citizenship in K-16 English Classrooms. National Council for Teachers of English. Atlanta, GA.
• Baca, D. P. (2016, Fall). Bread Loaf International Peace Literacy Network. National Council for Teachers of English. Atlanta, GA: Bread Loaf School of English and Bread Loaf Teachers Network.
• Baca, D. P. (2016, Fall). Decolonizing English Literacy Practices in and out of the Classroom. National Council for Teachers of English. Atlanta, GA.
• Baca, D. P. (2016, Fall). Writing the Digital Codex: Non/Alphabetic, De/Colonial, Network/ed. Indigenous Archives in a Digital Age: A Symposium Celebrating The Occom Circle. Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH..
• Baca, D. P. (2016, Spring). Local/Regional Practices: Recovering, Translating, and Strategic Practices from Spaces and Contexts of Coloniality. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX.
• Baca, D. P. (2014, April). Third Space Chicana Feminism and Writing in Colonial Situations. Seaker Series co-sponsored by the Department of English, Gender & Women's Studies, and Latin American Studies at the University of New Orleans. New Orleans, LA.
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  Invited Presentation
• Baca, D. P. (2014, March). La Malinche/Malinalli and Rhetorical History. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN.
• Baca, D. P. (2014, May). Border Rhetorics: Citizenship and Identity on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier. Rhetoric Society of America. San Antonio, TX.
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  Supersession Roundtable
• Baca, D. P. (2014, May). Tlacuilolitzli/The Spreading of Color on Hard Surfaces: Living Painted Knowledge in Symbols and Stories. Native American Indigenous Studies Association. Austin, TX.
• Baca, D. P. (2014, November). Critical Spaces for Teaching, Learning, Building: Conversations about Multicultural Education. National Council for Teachers of English. Washington, D.C..

Others

• Baca, D. P. (2020, November). ’We’ve Got Your Back’: The Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Program Turns 20. Council Chronicle 30:2.
• Baca, D., & Villanueva, V. (2009, June). SPECIAL TOPIC: Writing, Rhetoric, and Latinidad Introduction.