This volume offers a comprehensive survey of African-American rhetoric within a broad historical context, exploring the major cultural and theoretical issues in the field. The 19 original essays that make up the collection look at distinct African-American rhetorical traditions such as signifyin', playin'the dozens, and call-and-response from a non-Eurocentric perspective. Orlando Taylor, Howard University Ronald L. Jackson II, Penn State University Elaine B. Richardson, Penn State University Maulana Karenga, CSU Long Beach Adisa Alkebulan, Temple University Th
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Understanding African American Rhetoric is the most comprehensive, scholarly, methodologically sound presentation of African American rhetoric to date! Given the many leading intellectuals who wrote chapters, this book is essential reading for both scholars and practitioners. It is likely to become a canonical text..
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Ronald L. Jackson II is Associate Professor of Culture and Communication Theory at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Negotiation of Cultural Identity (1999). Elaine B. Richardson is Assistant Professor of English and by courtesy, Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of African-American Literacies (Routledge, 2002).
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The central project of this essay is to make a useful contribution to the ancient and ongoing conversation around the definition, field, and function of African communicative practice, using classical African sources, principally ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) texts, as a fundamental point of departure and framework for understanding and engaging African American rhetoric. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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African American, New York, United States, Five Percent, South Africa, Tupac Shakur, Emanuel Cleaver, Lauryn Hill, Frederick Douglass, Africa World Press, Brand Nubian, Sojourner Truth, National Civil Rights Museum, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Nation of Islam, Oxford University Press, Black America, Elijah Muhammad, Fugitive Slave Law, Temple University Press, Grass Roots, Marcus Garvey, Molefi Kete Asante, The Quarterly Journal of Speech New!
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- The Souls of Black Folk (Modern Library) by W.E.B. Du Bois on 5 pages
- The Negotiation of Cultural Identity: Perceptions of European Americans and African Americans by Ronald L. Jackson in Back Matter, and Back Cover
- The Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois on page 218, and Index
- Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy (Black Literature and Culture Series) by Houston A. Baker Jr. on page 188, and Index
- Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect by Lorenzo Dow Turner on page 34, and page 40
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- African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Associate Professor Elaine B Richardson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Progressive Black Masculinities? by Athena D. Mutua on page 212, and Back Matter
- Appeals in Modern Rhetoric: An Ordinary Language Approach by M. Jimmie Killingsworth in Back Matter
- Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture by Jacqueline Jones Royster in Back Matter
- Not Only the Master's Tools: African American Studies in Theory and Practice (Cultural Politics & the Promise of Democracy) by Lewis R. Gordon in Back Matter
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