Few figures haunt the collective American psyche like Malcolm X. Hoodlum, convict, convert, prophet, nationalist, and martyr, Malcolm s life spans the Civil Rights era like an index of America s racial anxiety. Dozens of books and hundreds of articles have analyzed his life, his work, and the various ways that his image has been appropriated by American culture. Not much has been done, however, to analyze his speeches. This would be a glaring omission in the body of scholarship about almost any public figure, but is especially troubling with regard to Malcolm X. His legacy does not consist...
Few figures haunt the collective American psyche like Malcolm X. Hoodlum, convict, convert, prophet, nationalist, and martyr, Malcolm s life spans ...
Robert E. Terrill argues that, in order to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate indignities of racial exclusion that have stained citizenship since its inception. In Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama, Terrill demonstrates how President Barack Obama's public address models such a discourse.
Robert E. Terrill argues that, in order to invent a robust manner of addressing one another as citizens, Americans must learn to draw on the delicate ...
Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provides rhetorical critics an opportunity to revisit their published work on Obama in light of events that have occurred since its publication.
Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provid...
Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provides rhetorical critics an opportunity to revisit their published work on Obama in light of events that have occurred since its publication.
Perhaps no other presidential candidate or sitting president has attracted as much attention from rhetorical critics as Barack Obama. This book provid...
