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Chandra Snell Clark
This rhetorical biography illustrates the manner in which African American woman newspaper publisher and journalist Almena Davis Lomax sought to persuade her readers of her civil rights vision--through her?Los Angeles…
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Andre E. Johnson, Amanda Nell Edgar
Spotlights the perspectives of individual participants who contributed to the Black Lives Matter's revived impact and global success throughout 2020. Andre Johnson and Amanda Nell Edgar interview the movement's activists…
Andre E. Johnson
This book is a study of the prophetic rhetoric of African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop Henry McNeal Turner. By locating Turner within the African American prophetic tradition, Johnson examines how…
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Examines the career of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, focusing on his work from 1896 to 1915. Drawing on Turner’s speeches, editorials, and letters, Andre Johnson tells a story of how…
Henry McNeal Turner (1834-1915) was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of America's earliest Black activists and social reformers, and an outspoken proponent of emigration. Andre Johnson…
Kami J. Anderson
The book sheds light on the intersectionality of language, race and identity by offering a multiperspective approach to the proscription of identity when language and culture have a direct impact…
Amanda Nell Edgar,Andre E. Johnson
This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates…
Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments, historical markers, college classrooms, and history books.
George Floyd's murder in the summer of 2020…
The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition is a two volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the Black preaching tradition during the COVID19 pandemic.
Preaching During a Pandemic: The Rhetoric of the Black Preaching Tradition is a two volume collection of sermons from those who preach within the Black preaching tradition during the COVID19…
Womanist thought remains of critical importance given contemporary issues of social justice and advocacy. Womanist Ethical Rhetoric centers discourses of religious rhetoric and its influence on Black women’s aims for…
This volume offers the first book-length consideration of American religious freedom advocacy from a rhetorical perspective. In it, fifteen scholars consider twelve contemporary controversies with attention to arguments, evidence, and…
This book explores the convergence of gender, race, and social identities in the often-exclusionary arena of American politics. Contributors examine contemporary issues as they relate to candidate positioning, acceptance, and…
On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. This book brings this pivotal…
Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that…
Annual volume, this time featuring special sections on Brecht’s dramatic fragments and on comedy in post-Brechtian theater, along with a variety of other contributions.
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