Full Description
The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric is a comprehensive compendium of primary texts that is designed for use by students, teachers, and scholars of rhetoric and for the general public interested in the history of African American communication. The volume and its companion website include dialogues, creative works, essays, folklore, music, interviews, news stories, raps, videos, and speeches that are performed or written by African Americans. Both the book as a whole and the various selections in it speak directly to the artistic, cultural, economic, gendered, social, and political condition of African Americans from the enslavement period in America to the present, as well as to the Black Diaspora.
Contents
Part I: African American Rhetoric—Definitions and Understanding
Introduction: African American Rhetoric: What It Be, What It Do
Volume Editors: Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson
Section 1. African American Rhetorical theory
Edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson
Part II: The Blackest Hours—Origins and Histories of African American Rhetoric
Introduction: "Coming Out of the Dark": The Beginnings of African American Rhetoric
Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson
Section 2. Nobody Knows Our Name: African Orature in the American Diaspora
Edited and with an Introduction by Kermit E. Campbell
Section 3. Religion and Spirituality/Transportations and Transformations of Spirituality and Identity in the New World
Edited and with an Introduction by Kameelah Martin and Elizabeth West
Section 4. Language, Literacy, and Education
Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Kinloch and Donja Thomas
Section 5. Black Presence: African American Political Rhetoric
Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson
Part III: Discourses On Black Bodies
Introduction: Genders and Sexualities
Vershawn Ashanti Young
Section 6. Race Women and Black Feminisms
Edited and with an Introduction by Joy James
Section 7. Motions of Manhood
Edited and with an Introduction by Vershawn Ashanti Young
Section 8. the Quare of Queer
Edited and with an Introduction by Jeffrey McCune
Part IV: The New Blackness: Multiple Cultures, Multiple Modes
Introductions:
Courageous Rhetoric: Caribbean Foundations, New Media, and Black Aesthetics
Vershawn Ashanti Young
Everyday Rhetoric: Rhetoric Everyday
Michelle Bachelor Robinson
Section 9. Caribbean Thought and Its Critique of Subjugation
Edited and with an Introduction by Aaron Kamugisha and Yanique Hume
Section 10. Black Technocultural Expressivity
Edited and with an Introduction by Dara N. Byrne
Section 11. Beat Rebels Corrupting Youth Against Babylon
Edited and with an Introduction by Greg Thomas
Section 12. Black Arts: Black Argument
Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson
