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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..
– Jack L. Daniel, co-author, with Omari C. Daniel, of We Fish: The Journey to Fatherhood
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Understanding African American Rhetoric is an engaging exploration of African American language within its cultural and political context. Eighteen original essays by leading scholars chronicle and celebrate the influence of classical African oral traditions upon the evolution of contemporary African American linguistic practices such as signifyin', playin' the dozens, and call-and-response. Drawing upon a breadth of historical, legal, and cultural texts ranging from Johnnie Cochran's closing arguments in the OJ Simpson trial to the rap lyrics of Tupac Shakur and Lauryn Hill, this ambitious and expansive collection is grounded in the sway of history over language and culture.
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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..
– Jack L. Daniel, co-author, with Omari C. Daniel, of We Fish: The Journey to Fatherhood
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Understanding African American Rhetoric is an engaging exploration of African American language within its cultural and political context. Eighteen original essays by leading scholars chronicle and celebrate the influence of classical African oral traditions upon the evolution of contemporary African American linguistic practices such as signifyin', playin' the dozens, and call-and-response. Drawing upon a breadth of historical, legal, and cultural texts ranging from Johnnie Cochran's closing arguments in the OJ Simpson trial to the rap lyrics of Tupac Shakur and Lauryn Hill, this ambitious and expansive collection is grounded in the sway of history over language and culture.
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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)
medu nefer, kink factor, paradigm blueprint, afrocentric method, afrocentric orientation, rhetorical communities, poor righteous teachers, rhetorical scholarship, black rhetoric, rhetorical community, rhetorical artifact, death around the corner, rhetorical experiences, hairstyle choices, redemptive violence, rhetorical presence, relational ethics, rhetorical studies, lyrical approach, rhetorical inquiry, rhetorical critic, aesthetic images, death narratives, weary land, fantasy themes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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 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)
medu nefer, kink factor, paradigm blueprint, afrocentric method, afrocentric orientation, rhetorical communities, poor righteous teachers, rhetorical scholarship, black rhetoric, rhetorical community, rhetorical artifact, death around the corner, rhetorical experiences, hairstyle choices, redemptive violence, rhetorical presence, relational ethics, rhetorical studies, lyrical approach, rhetorical inquiry, rhetorical critic, aesthetic images, death narratives, weary land, fantasy themes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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 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 BA MA PhD 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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