Rhetorical agency as haciendo caras and differential consciousness through lens of gender, race, ethnicity, and class: An examination of Dolores Huerta's rhetoric

Communication Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 223-247

  Sowards, Stacey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

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BIOGRAPHY; EXPLORATION; LITERATURE REVIEW;

EID: 77953199502     PISSN: 10503293     EISSN: 14682885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2885.2010.01361.x     Document Type: Article

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