Amazon.com description: Product Description: Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.

In recent decades, the concepts of race, gender, and culture have come to function as "calling cards," the terms by which we announce ourselves as professionals and negotiate acceptance and/or rejection in the academic marketplace. In this volume, contributors from composition, literature, rhetoric, literacy, and cultural studies share their experiences and insights as researchers, scholars, and teachers who centralize these concepts in their work. Reflecting deliberately on their own research and classroom practices, the contributors share theoretical frameworks, processes, and methodologies; consider the quality of the knowledge and the understanding that their theoretical approaches generate; and address various challenges related to what it actually means to perform this type of work both professionally and personally, especially in light of the ways in which we are all raced, gendered, and acculturated.

“Calling Cards pokes, prods, and pushes at the very question of the relationship between the work of the academy and social justice. Overall, [it] has much to offer.” — JAC

“Calling Cards … contribut[es] to the growing and important work on identity issues in English studies … [and] gives us a lesson in learning how to talk with others about our identities.” — Rhetoric Review

"The scholarship that went into creating this work is superior. The contributions are fresh and reveal perspectives that have not been defined as deeply or as sharply in previous works, and the book's strength is the productive way in which it builds upon prior and related work." — Keith Gilyard, editor of Race, Rhetoric, and Composition

Contributors include Valerie Babb, Patrick Bizzaro, Resa Crane Bizzaro, Jami L. Carlacio, Amanda Espinosa-Aguilar, Ann E. Green, David G. Holmes, Susan Applegate Krouse, Barbara E. L'Eplattenier, Valerie Lee, Shirley Wilson Logan, Joyce Irene Middleton, Joycelyn Moody, Renee M. Moreno, Akhila Ramnarayan, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Ann Marie Mann Simpkins, and Hui Wu.