| dc.description.abstract | Rosalie Fish (Cowlitz/Muckleshoot) is an activist who runs for The University of Washington and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. During her races, she dons red paint, and her body exists as a living archive, carrying stories of ancestors throughout time and space. In this thesis, I “story with” (Archibald) Fish to compose an in-flux framework of the rhetorical “race space” using a story of Fish’s 3200-meter race for Renee Davis, my experience racing a 1500-meter race, and Momaday, Bruchac, and Lyons’s spatial rhetoric concepts. Then, I use this framework to consider how Fish and I (over)lap across culture and geography to make meaning of my ethical responsibilities as a scholar-runner-human and work towards rhetorical alliance. Finally, I consider how the race space can potentially be used in other contexts of cross-cultural discourse. This thesis views the “race space” as a discursive space full of cross-cultural discourse, shaped by personal stories, where runners of all intersecting identities—race, class, culture, gender, sex, age, sexuality, and religion—value racing, storytelling, and writing as means of communication to disrupt, talk back, resist, and build community to talk across and with difference. Towards these purposes, I respond to two framing questions: what does it mean to overlap in space with someone different than myself? As a non-Native researcher, how do I ethically engage with Indigenous people and research while occupying Native land? | en_US |
