1st Edition

The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric The Longue Duree of Black Voices

    894 Pages
    by Routledge

    894 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Part I: African American Rhetoric—Definitions and Understanding

    Introduction: African American Rhetoric: What It Be, What It Do

    Volume Editors: Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson

    Section 1. African American Rhetorical theory

    Edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson

    Part II: The Blackest Hours—Origins and Histories of African American Rhetoric

    Introduction: "Coming Out of the Dark": The Beginnings of African American Rhetoric

    Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson

    Section 2. Nobody Knows Our Name: African Orature in the American Diaspora

    Edited and with an Introduction by Kermit E. Campbell

    Section 3. Religion and Spirituality/Transportations and Transformations of Spirituality and Identity in the New World

    Edited and with an Introduction by Kameelah Martin and Elizabeth West

    Section 4. Language, Literacy, and Education

    Edited and with an Introduction by Valerie Kinloch and Donja Thomas

    Section 5. Black Presence: African American Political Rhetoric

    Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson

    Part III: Discourses On Black Bodies

    Introduction: Genders and Sexualities

    Vershawn Ashanti Young

    Section 6. Race Women and Black Feminisms

    Edited and with an Introduction by Joy James

    Section 7. Motions of Manhood

    Edited and with an Introduction by Vershawn Ashanti Young

    Section 8. the Quare of Queer

    Edited and with an Introduction by Jeffrey McCune

    Part IV: The New Blackness: Multiple Cultures, Multiple Modes

    Introductions:

    Courageous Rhetoric: Caribbean Foundations, New Media, and Black Aesthetics

    Vershawn Ashanti Young

    Everyday Rhetoric: Rhetoric Everyday

    Michelle Bachelor Robinson

    Section 9. Caribbean Thought and Its Critique of Subjugation

    Edited and with an Introduction by Aaron Kamugisha and Yanique Hume

    Section 10. Black Technocultural Expressivity

    Edited and with an Introduction by Dara N. Byrne

    Section 11. Beat Rebels Corrupting Youth Against Babylon

    Edited and with an Introduction by Greg Thomas

    Section 12. Black Arts: Black Argument

    Edited and with an Introduction by Michelle Bachelor Robinson

    Biography

    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.