Rhetoric
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
Named a 2022 finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History from the African American Intellectual History Society
Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought tells ...
Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric
Contributions by Whitney Jordan Adams, Wendy Atkins-Sayre, Jason Edward Black, Patricia G. Davis, Cassidy D. Ellis, Megan Fitzmaurice, Michael L. Forst, Jeremy R. Grossman, Cynthia P. King, Julia M. Medhurst, ...
At Arm’s Length
Literary critics and authors have long argued about the importance or unimportance of an author’s relationship to readers. What can be said about the rhetorical relationship that exists between author ...
Rebirthing a Nation
Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized politics. Violence against people of color, transgender and gay people, ...
Racial Terrorism
In December 2018, the United States Senate unanimously passed the nation’s first antilynching act, the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act. For the first time in US history, legislators, representing ...
No Future in This Country
Winner of the 2021 Book of the Year Award from the Religious Communication Association
Winner of the 2021 Top Book Award from the National Communication Association's African American Communication and ...
Black Feelings
Honorable Mention Recipient of the 2021 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address by the National Communication Association
In the 1969 issue of Negro Digest, a young Black ...
The Bad Sixties
Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association
Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue ...
Peculiar Rhetoric
Winner of the 2020 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award from the Public Address Division of the National Communication Association
The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in ...
Lynching
Winner of the 2020 Rhetoric Society of America Book Award
While victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more ...