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Contents
Foreword, by Jacqueline Jones Royster
Preface, by Elaine B. Richardson & Ronald L. Jackson II
Introduction: Aspects of African American Rhetoric as a Field, by Keith Gilyard
Part One: Historicizing and Analyzing African American Rhetoric(s)
1. Black Speakers, White Representations: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and the Construction of a Public Persona, by Shirley Wilson Logan
2. From Panther to Monster: Representations of Resistance from the Black Power Movement of the 1960s to the Boyz in the Hood and Beyond, by Kalí Tal
3. Rhetoric That Should Have Moved the People: Rethinking the Black Panther Party, by Gwendolyn D. Pough
4. The Literary Foremother: An Embodiment of the Rhetoric of Freedom, by Jacqueline K. Bryant
5. Ties that Bind: A Comparative Analysis of Zora Neale Hurston’s and Geneva Smitherman’s Work, by Kimmika L. H. Williams
Part Two: Visions for Pedagogy of African American Rhetoric
6. The Multiple Dimensions of Nubian/Egyptian Rhetoric and Its Implications for Contemporary Classroom Instructions, by Clinton Crawford
7. Modeling Orality: African American Rhetorical Practices and the Teaching of Writing, by Lena Ampadu
8. Coming from the Heart: African American Students, Literacy Stories, and Rhetorical Education, by Elaine B. Richardson
9. The Rhetoric of Democracy: Contracts, Declarations, and Bills of Sales, by Victoria Cliett
Part Three: Visions for Research in African American Rhetoric(s)
10. Looking Forward to Look Back: Technology Access and Transformation in African American Rhetoric, by Adam J. Banks
11. We Is Who We Was: The African/American Rhetoric of Amistad, by Kermit E. Campbell
12. From the Harbor to Da Academic Hood: Hush Harbors and an African American Rhetorical Tradition, by Vorris L. Nunley
13. “Both Print and Oral” and “Talking about Race”: Transforming Toni Morrison’s Language Issues into Teaching Issues, by Joyce Irene Middleton
14. Found Not Founded, by William W. Cook
References
Contributors
Index
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