Deborah F. Atwater

African American Women's Rhetoric

The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor

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Produktbeschreibung

African American Women's Rhetoric is a comprehensive study of the ways in which African American women in politics, education, business, and other social contexts have tried to persuade their audiences to value what they say and who they are. Through detailed examinations of the rhetoric of a variety of women in important periods in American history, Deborah Atwater reveals that African American women today who engage in speech in the public sphere (such as Condoleezza Rice, Barbara Jordan, and others) stem from an important lineage of active, outspoken women.

Produktdetails

• Race, Rites, and Rhetoric: Colors, Cultures, and Communication
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780739121764
• ISBN-10: 0739121766
• Artikelnr.: 25690267

Autorenporträt

Deborah Atwater is associate professor emerita of communication arts and sciences and African and African American studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Table of Contents 2 Dedication 3 Acknowledgments Chapter 4 1. Awakenings
Chapter 5 2. And the Truth Shall Set You Free Chapter 6 3. African American
Women in the Civil War and Reconstruction Chapter 7 4. Leading to World War
I Chapter 8 5. World War II and the Lives of Working-Class African American
Women Chapter 9 6. The Era of the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The
Struggle for Rights Continues Chapter 10 7. African American Women in
Contemporary Politics and Political Organizations Chapter 11 8.
Contemporary Times: African American Women and Hip-Hop Chapter 12 9. The
Struggle Continues: Steps to Implementing Change