The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric: The Longue Duree of Black Voices (Race and Politics) - Hardcover

 
9780415731058: The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric: The Longue Duree of Black Voices (Race and Politics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415731054 ISBN 13: 9780415731058
Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Vershawn Ashanti Young works in the following areas of Africana studies: language, gender, performance studies, and rhetoric. He is on faculty in the Department of Drama and Speech Communication at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He has published in such journals as PMLA, African American Review, College Communication and Composition, JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Politics, and Society, and Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society.

Michelle Bachelor Robinson is the director of the Comprehensive Writing Program and a professor of African American Rhetoric at Spelman College. Her research and teaching focus on community engagement, historiography, African American rhetoric and literacy, composition pedagogy and theory, and student and program assessment. She is actively involved in community research, oral history collection, and community writing and serves as a university partner and consultant for the Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance, Inc.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415731054
ISBN 13 
9780415731058
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
868
Editor
Young Vershawn Ashanti, Robinson Michelle Bachelor

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