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African American Women's Rhetoric
The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor
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2009
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African American Women's Rhetoric: The Search for Dignity, Personhood, and Honor deals with the rhetoric of African American women from enslavement to current times, examining slave narratives and contemporary print, music, and other media surrounding the lives of African American women. Covering a variety of specific women and their rhetoric within the context of a historical period, the book provides central themes and strategic and social concerns of African American women and their environment. It frames, in some, cases, the rhetoric of contemporary women in politics and other fields of prominence_including Condoleeza Rice and Barbara Lee, among others. Deborah F. Atwater explores how African women today who engage in speech in the public sphere come from a historical line of active women who have been outspoken in politics, education, business, and various social contexts; heretofore, these women have not been studied in a comprehensive manner. Specifically, how do these African American women discuss themselves, and_more importantly_how do they represent who they are in various communities? How do these women persuade their diverse audiences to value what they say and who they are?African American Women's Rhetoric will be an invaluable contribution to upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric, African American Rhetoric, History, and Women's Studies.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2176-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3199-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
176
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. Awakenings No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter 02. And the Truth Shall Set You Free No access Pages 25 - 32
Chapter 03. African American Women in the Civil War and Reconstruction No access Pages 33 - 44
Chapter 04. Leading to World War I No access Pages 45 - 64
Chapter 05. World War II and the Lives of Working-Class African American Women No access Pages 65 - 80
Chapter 06. The Era of the Modern Civil Rights Movement: The Struggle for Rights Continues No access Pages 81 - 100
Chapter 07. African American Women in Contemporary Politics and Political Organizations No access Pages 101 - 124
Chapter 08. Contemporary Times: African American Women and Hip-Hop No access Pages 125 - 136
Chapter 09. The Struggle Continues: Steps to Implementing Change No access Pages 137 - 142
