Awards

• Winner of Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association 2020 (United States)
• Winner of Outstanding Book Award, Latina/o Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association 2020 (United States)

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[Si, Ella Puede!] opens an important conversation about Dolores Huerta as a major figure of twentieth-century civil rights organizing...Sowards's integration of Chicana and Latina feminist theories, emphasis on agency in the context of social movements, and incorporation of archival materials invites historians, sociologists, feminist studies scholars, and Latinx studies scholars to consider new frameworks that increase the visibility of the social movement activism of women of color. * Journal of Arizona History * !Si, Ella Puede! foregrounds the rich, complex, and often contradictory narratives by and about Huerta's 60-year legacy of activism. From a rhetorical perspective using oral history interviews, witness accounts, secondary sources along with a collection of selected archival material, Sowards makes the case for including Huerta's corpus of speeches, letters, and testimonies related to her grassroots mobilizing efforts on behalf of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) in the canon of Chicana political rhetoric and post-World War II U.S. civil rights history. * Quarterly Journal of Speech * Shifting the focus from male leadership in historical and rhetorical scholarship about the UFW and the Chicano/a movement, Sowards instead centers the role of women and their activism. To achieve this, the book relies on impressive archival research, ethnography, and interviews...Sowards's timely book brings to the forefront how women activists have strategically used their varied identities to shape and deploy their rhetorical agency, gain power, and advance social justice causes. Sowards's study is likely to inspire future studies in Chicana/Latina rhetorics, potentially bringing attention to obfuscated figures such as Helen Chavez, Hope Lopez, and Jessica Govea. * Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society *

!Si, Ella Puede! foregrounds the rich, complex, and often contradictory narratives by and about Huerta's 60-year legacy of activism. From a rhetorical perspective using oral history interviews, witness accounts, secondary sources along with a collection of selected archival material, Sowards makes the case for including Huerta's corpus of speeches, letters, and testimonies related to her grassroots mobilizing efforts on behalf of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) in the canon of Chicana political rhetoric and post-World War II U.S. civil rights history. * Quarterly Journal of Speech * [Si, Ella Puede!] opens an important conversation about Dolores Huerta as a major figure of twentieth-century civil rights organizing...Sowards's integration of Chicana and Latina feminist theories, emphasis on agency in the context of social movements, and incorporation of archival materials invites historians, sociologists, feminist studies scholars, and Latinx studies scholars to consider new frameworks that increase the visibility of the social movement activism of women of color. * Journal of Arizona History *

[Si, Ella Puede!] opens an important conversation about Dolores Huerta as a major figure of twentieth-century civil rights organizing...Sowards's integration of Chicana and Latina feminist theories, emphasis on agency in the context of social movements, and incorporation of archival materials invites historians, sociologists, feminist studies scholars, and Latinx studies scholars to consider new frameworks that increase the visibility of the social movement activism of women of color. * Journal of Arizona History *

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Stacey K. Sowards is a professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso. She has published several articles and other works on Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers, as well as on immigration activism in the twenty-first century.

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