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African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an introduction to fundamental concepts and a systematic integration of historical and contemporary lines of inquiry in the study of African American rhetorics. Edited by Elaine B. Richardson and Ronald L. Jackson II, the volume explores culturally and discursively developed forms of knowledge, communicative practices, and persuasive strategies rooted in freedom struggles by people of African ancestry in America.
Outlining African American rhetorics found in literature, historical documents, and popular culture, the collection provides scholars, students, and teachers with innovative approaches for discussing the epistemologies and realities that foster the inclusion of rhetorical discourse in African American studies. In addition to analyzing African American rhetoric, the contributors project visions for pedagogy in the field and address new areas and renewed avenues of research. The result is an exploration of what parameters can be used to begin a more thorough and useful consideration of African Americans in rhetorical space.
African American Rhetoric(s) presents Reconstructionist, Black/African American, Nubian/Ancient Egyptian, and Afrocentric rhetorics. The scope of the volume is vast, yet the contributors are unified in finding connections between African American cultural understandings and current persuasive and negotiation strategies. The essays collectively work to reclaim topics that have shifted to other disciplines, and they also delineate debates about African American studies within rhetoric and composition and communications studies.
The volume includes a foreword by Jacqueline Jones Royster and an introduction by Keith Gilyard. Contributors are Shirley Wilson Logan, Kalí Tal, Gwendolyn D. Pough, Jacqueline K. Bryant, Kimmika L.H. Williams, Clinton Crawford, Lena Ampadu, Elaine B. Richardson, Victoria Cliett, Adam J. Banks, Kermit E. Campbell, Vorris L. Nunley, Joyce Irene Middleton, and William W. Cook.
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction : aspects of African American rhetoric as a field | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Historicizing and analyzing African American rhetoric(s) | |
| 1 | Black speakers, white representations : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the construction of a public persona | 21 |
| 2 | From Panther to monster : representations of resistance from the Black Power movement of the 1960s to the Boyz in the hood and beyond | 37 |
| 3 | Rhetoric that should have moved the people : rethinking the Black Panther party | 59 |
| 4 | The literary foremother : an embodiment of the rhetoric of freedom | 73 |
| 5 | Ties that bind : a comparative analysis of Zora Neale Hurston's and Geneva Smitherman's work | 86 |
| Pt. 2 | Visions for pedagogy of African American rhetoric | |
| 6 | The multiple dimensions of Nubian/Egyptian rhetoric and its implications for contemporary classroom instructions | 111 |
| 7 | Modeling orality : African American rhetorical practices and the teaching of writing | 136 |
| 8 | Coming from the heart : African American students, literacy stories, and rhetorical education | 155 |
| 9 | The rhetoric of democracy : contracts, declarations, and bills of sales | 170 |
| Pt. 3 | Visions for research in African American rhetoric(s) | |
| 10 | Looking forward to look back : technology access and transformation in African American rhetoric | 189 |
| 11 | We is who we was : the African/American rhetoric of Amistad | 204 |
| 12 | From the harbor to da academic hood : Hush Harbors and an African American rhetorical tradition | 221 |
| 13 | "Both print and oral" and "talking about race" : transforming Toni Morrison's language issues into teaching issues | 242 |
| 14 | Found not founded | 259 |
| References | 273 | |
| Contributors | 295 | |
| Index | 299 |
Overview
African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives is an introduction to fundamental concepts and a systematic integration of historical and contemporary lines of inquiry in the study of African American rhetorics. Edited by Elaine B. Richardson and Ronald L. Jackson II, the volume explores culturally and discursively developed forms of knowledge, communicative practices, and persuasive strategies rooted in freedom struggles by people of African ancestry in America.
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