On African-American Rhetoric

On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism. The governing idea is to illustrate the basic call-response process of African-American culture and to demonstrate how this dynamic has been and continues to be central to the language used by African Americans to make collective cultural and political statements. Ranging across genres and disciplines, including rhetorical theory, poetry, fiction, and memes, Gilyard and Banks consider language developments that have occurred both inside and outside of organizations and institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Historical Overview of African-American Rhetoric Chapter 3: Jeremiads and Manifestoes Chapter 4: Rhetorical Theory Chapter 5: Technology and African-American Rhetoric Chapter 6: Rhetoric and Black Twitter Chapter 7: College-Writing Instruction and African-American Rhetoric Chapter 8: Conclusion References